When we see everything in life as a game, we will be equally joyous when falling as we are when rising. If we can fully understand this – if we can see life as swinging on a swing – we will never fall apart when failure comes our way.
Quotations
A Spiritual Leader
Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.
People do not know what the name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify your mind completely…
Shiva is all-pervading and present in each particle. Never differentiate between a Hindu and a Muslim. If you are shrewd and intelligent, know THY SELF. There lies acquaintance with God.
Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarrelled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.
The knowledge in your mind is immeasurably greater than all that you learnt, in all manner of ways, since birth, as a child, at school, in life, in the world, in your profession. This immeasurable knowledge sometimes percolates into the dream experience; sometimes it comes as intuitive ideas, as creative feelings.
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
Contemplating upon divine qualities, performing good deeds and chanting are all ways of destroying delusion through satsang.
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony.
