This is what you shall do

This is what you shall do;

Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches,
give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families,
read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life,
re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have  the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

-Walt Whitman

Banish Fear today!!!

"Named must your fear be before banish it you can."

--Yoda, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

"Fear is like a wound within our emotions.  You heal a fear much like you heal a cut on your hand.

If you ignore a cut on your hand, it will get infected.

But it will heal itself if you pay attention to it and give it time.

Same with fear.  First recognize it's existence- what kind of fear is it?  Is it fear of poverty, of loneliness, of rejection? 

Then use common sense. Don't let the fear get infected.

Often we burn 70 percent of our emotional energy on what we fear might happen (90 percent of which won't happen). By devoting our energy to our other emotions, we will heal naturally."

Za Rinpoche,
"What should I do with my life?"

Banish Worry!!!

"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond our will."

- Epictetus

Strength in each other

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread... They offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. "

-Viktor E. Frankl

Love is Life!

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

Everything is united by it alone.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
—Leo Tolstoy

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