Happy Holidays...........

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

D M Dellinger

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana

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The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

C S Lewis

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When you like your work, every day is a holiday.

Frank Tyger

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Mother I Love you

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

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You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face danger. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.

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I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, 'I have a mother'.

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If you want peace, do not see the faults of others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child. The whole world is your own.

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Many think of God only after receiving blows from the world. But blessed indeed is he who can offer his mind, like a fresh flower, at the feet of the Lord from his very childhood. One should practise renunciation in youth.

Sri Sarada Devi
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Merry Christmas.....

May peace be your gift for this Christmas and the
world to help us all make this world a better place –
to make every day of the year Christmas Day.

Kurt Avish

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The joy of brightening other lives, bearing
each others' burdens,
easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts
and lives with generous
gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

W C Jones

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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:

the presence of a happy family all wrapped
up in each other.

Burton Hillis

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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients
of a truly merry Christmas.

Peg Bracken

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Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgive ness.

To an opponent, tolerance.

To a friend, your heart.

To a customer, service.

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.

To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold

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Lovingly Detached

Truly wise is he who is unstirred by praise or blame, by love or hatred. He is not moved by the opposites of life. Verily does he delight in the blissful Self.

Srimad Bhagavatam

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Happiness or sorrow - whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

The Dhammapada

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union.

St John of the Cross

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To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape... But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, 'Yes, this moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go.'... If we don't cling to past or future and we live entirely here and now, in 'Eternity's sunrise'.

Eknath Easwaran

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Winter with Inspiration

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Kahlil Gibran

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Ralph W Emerson

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Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.

Gloria Gaither

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

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Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun./ See the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

Einar Skjfraasen

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Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Stanley Crawford

Give and Take.......

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired.
In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
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So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you, seek
and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone that asks receives,
he who seeks finds and to him that knocks the door will be opened.

Luke 11: -13

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The widest possibilities for spiritual growth lie in the give-and-take of
everyday relationships.

Eknath Easwaran

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There is love in every one of you.

Develop that love.

Share it with people.
This love is not a one-way traffic.

It is two-way, give and take.
Sathya Sai Baba

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You must give some time to your fellow men.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for others –
something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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Koshi The Holy City

Brahma once weighed the heavens against Kashi. And Kashi, being heavier, sank while the skies, despite all the gods who lived there, rose upwards.
Adi Shankara,
Manikarnikastotram
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The three worlds form one city of mine, and Kashi is my royal palace therein.
Skanda Purana
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Are there not many holy places on this earth?
Yet which of them would equal in the balance one speck of Kashi's dust?
Are there not many rivers running to the sea?
Yet which of them is like the River of Heaven in Kashi?
Are there not many fields of liberation on earth?
Yet not one equals the smallest part of the city never forsaken by Shiva.
The Ganges, Shiva and Kashi: Where this Trinity is watchful, no wonder here is found the grace that leads one on to perfect bliss.
Kashi Khanda 35. 7-10
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Varanasi sits above the earth as a 'crossing place' or tirtha between this world and the 'far shore' of the transcendent Brahmn.
Diana L Eck
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Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.
Mark Twain

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Beauty Lies Within

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph W Emerson
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 309

Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.

~ Mark Twain

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 308

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 307

Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness.

~ The Mahabharata

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 306

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

~ MK Gandhi 

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Health Is Wealth

Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness.
The Mahabharata
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship....To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Gautama Buddha
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them... Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

Yogananda Paramahansa
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Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.

Swami Vishnu-devananda
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

M K Gandhi
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

G K Chesterton
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The greatest wealth is health.

Virgil

Words Use Them Wisely

We should always be soft spoken. Sweet speech has the ability to attract one and all. On the contrary, vitriolic speech keeps people away. That is why one should always be soft spoken so that it enhances brotherhood and affection.
Yajur Veda
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One should be cautious not to speak anything that hurts others. Such kind of speech never helps but always brings destruction.
Rig Veda
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Among a man's many good possessions, a good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
Thirukural 65: 641-642
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya
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Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth.
Sathya Sai Baba
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

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Education Quotes

Real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative; to be loving, blissful, without any comparison with the other. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first.

Osho

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If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere. How? You have seen my brethren... Let these men go from village to village bringing not only religion to the door of everyone but also education.

Swami Vivekananda

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Rabindranth Tagore

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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O Goddess Saraswati, salutations to you, the giver of boons, the one who fulfils all desires. I begin my studies. May there always be accomplishments for me.

Saraswati Namastubhyam

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