There are situations in our lives that represent real challenges to our growth. These constitute about 10% or less of the stress that we will ever experience. The remaining 90% of stress is of our own fabrication. This automatically means that the odds are better than nine to one that if we drop our…
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Swami Chetanananda
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Desires are not real anyway, they are only the wish list reflecting the limits of our imagination.
The fusion of knowledge and action is the recognition of one's infinite potential.
There is no freedom without uncertainty. But in that freedom, we open ourselves to pass from the battlefield of the warrior, into the cremation ground and, from there, to live as the hero of a truly inspired life.
The very effort to control events means that we restrict ourselves and others to the current level of our own imagination. We fail to recognize other possibilities inherent in a situation because we are too busy trying to make it turn out the way we think we want it to.
Winning a gold medal would surely be wonderful, but would it make me the hero of my own life? Would it sustain me through the pain and suffering that accompany us through life? Winning a gold medal can certainly be the mission of a life, but my goal is to be at peace with myself, and with others. To…