Dali Lama - Instructions for Life

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's:

Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.


Poetry by Rumi

There is a candle in your heart...

There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you ?
You feel the separation
from the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up ,
embrace the fire.
Remind those who tell you otherwise that
Love
comes to you of its own accord,
and the yearning for it
cannot be learned in any school.

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens"
Carl Jung


"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us"
Helen Keller

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

'You must be the change you wish to see in the world'
Mahatma Gandhi

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

The master does her best and lets go, and whatever happens, happens."
Lao Tsu

''You will experience whatever you think after the words ' I am.........''
Chalanda Sai Ma (spiritual teacher )

For all that has been: Thanks!
For all that will be: Yes! -Dag Hammarskjold

Happiness is inward and not outward;
and so it does not depend on what we have,
but on what we are.
--Henry Van Dyke

'The future depends on what we do in the present'
Mahatma Gandhi