Why We Shout When In Anger

"A saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath, found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples and asked:
'Why do people in anger shout at each other?'
Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'
'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner, asked the saint
Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained:
'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.
What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...
The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'
He looked at his disciples and said:
'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more, or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return. You may end up in divorce courts, for instance......'

Compasion

"Compassion is a natural state of being, a state in which God resides eternally.
It is a divine attribute which is able to melt the heart away. It is very intense. When a heart melts out of abundance of love....... compassion flows out and it knows no boundaries.
It is akin to universal benevolence which knows only one thing and that is how to give out. And this conforms perfectly to the divine nature.
God has only been giving out, all the time, never expecting anything in return. He is an infinite reservoir of benevolence and compassion."
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MASK

Don't be fooled by the face I wear, for I wear a thousand masks. And none of them are me. I give you the impression that I'm secure, that confidence is my name, coolness is my game and that I need no one. But don't believe me.

Beneath dwells the real me in confusion, in aloneness, in fear. That's why I create a mask to hide behind, to shield me from the glance that knows. But such a glance is precisely my salvation. That is, if it's followed by acceptance and love. It's the only thing that can liberate me from my own self-built prison walls.

I'm afraid that deep down I'm nothing and that I'm just no good, and that you will reject me. And so begins the parade of masks. I idly chatter to you. I tell you everything that's really nothing and nothing of what's everything, of what's crying within me.

Please listen carefully and try to hear what I'm not saying. I'd really like to be genuine and spontaneous. But you've got to help me. You've got to hold out your hands. With your sensitivity and sympathy, and your power of understanding, you alone can release me from my shallow world of uncertainty.

It will not be easy for you. The nearer you approach me, the blinder I may strike back. But I'm told that Love is stronger than strong walls. And in this lies my only hope. Please try to beat down these walls with firm and sensitive hands, for a child is very sensitive.

Who am I, you wonder?...

I am every man you meet.

I am every woman that you meet.

And I am also you.

(Auther unknown)

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Barriers To Love...

"Whatever is in your heart which is not clean, not true, will ultimately begin to act like a wall, obstructing the natural flow of love.
People who say that there is no love in their life, are being blocked by this wall. Actually there is love, but they just cant accept it.
Ego is the clearest example of this. Ego limits the flow of love by placing conditions on the love you give and receive.
Ego uses love to satisfy its own needs and desires. It produces a love which is deceptive, one which brings only temporary satisfaction. Ego does not allow you to experience true love or share it.
If fact, ego is capable of destroying your ability to feel love altogether."
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A Thought To Ponder...

"Without Truth, Right conduct, Peace and Love, the accumulation of knowledge is a barren achievement. Without them, all our actions, even acts of charity and serving others are ineffective. Without them, positions of authority to which one is raised become positions of persecution. Without these values, no good act or meritorious achievements can yield fruit.."
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Be Gentle

"Confucius, the great Chinese Philosopher, is about to pass away. His near and dear surround his sick bed.

Weakly he whispers,"Can you see what is in my mouth?" The old philosopher has lost all his teeth. So they reply,"We can only see the tongue."

After a while, Confucius asks them,"What is in your mouth?"

"We have both our tongue and teeth,"they answer.

The wise old man then tells them,"When man is born, he is born only with a tongue.The teeth come in gradually.They are harder and stronger than the tongue!But as man grows older, his hard, strong teeth drop off gradually.

Only the tongue---soft and gentle---lasts till the end."

"This is my message to you, my dear ones," he concludes." That which is gentle, lasts...

Therefore, always be gentle!Speak to everyone kindly, lovingly, gently.

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Just Think

"To love is to suffer.To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving.

Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love.

To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one

must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
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'It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust'

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Peace

My philosopher friend,Jennifer of http://goodnessgraciousness.blogspot.com/

has asked her readers to write on...:I Hold The Vision On Peace...: So I express my opinion as follows:

As we all know that every human being is made of three basic elements: Body,Mind and Soul.
Until all these elements are properly taken care of, it is not possible to envisage peace in the society.
Body: To maintain our bodies we require provision of security of food.No body should remain under nourished or starved.No starvation deaths should take place.
To keep ourselves healthy, provision of medical facilities should be available for all.

Mind: Education plays a vital role in developing our minds. So provision of education for all should be there. Education must be not only of professional/job oriented but should also be of character building.
And the need for Financial Security can not be underestimated.Every body should have equal opportunities to make his/her living.

Soul:This is also a very important area which cannot be ignored.If we have made provision for
financial security,health,education etc, but our souls remain undernourished or starved, peace in the society can not be seen.

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"For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul"

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Food for the soul is religion,spirituality etc.Religion teaches us to love all human beings and treat them as one, to be compassionate and considerate with every one.Once these qualities are ingrained in our souls,they will lead us to non violence. Wars and Crimes in the society will, therefore, have no place, and we hope to have Peace in this world.

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Installing The Love Sotware

A customer called up the service section of a computer company. . .

"Customer: I heard you provide Love software.
Customer Service Representative (CSR): Would you like to install Love software?
Customer: Yes. But I'm not very technically skilled. Give me the instructions and I will try to install. What do I do first ?

CSR: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart, sir?
Customer: Yes I have, but there are several programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running ?
CSR: What programs are running sir?
Customer: Let me see ... I have Past hurt.exe, low-esteem.exe, grudge.exe, and resentment.com running right now.

CSR: No problem. Love will automatically erase past-hurt.exe from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually overwrite low-esteem.exe with a module of its own called high-self-esteem.exe. However, you have to completely turn off grudge.exe and resentment.com. Those programs prevent love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off, sir?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how ?
CSR: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke forgiveness.exe. Do this as many times as necessary until grudge.exe and resentment.com have been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, I'm done. Love has started installing itself automatically. Is that normal ?
CSR: Yes it is. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your heart. Do you see that message?
Customer: Yes I do. Is it completely installed ?

CSR: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other hearts in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops ... I have an error message already. What should I do ?
CSR: What does the message say?
Customer: It says 'error--program not run on internal components.' What does that mean ?
CSR: Don't worry sir, that's a common problem. It means that the love program is set up to run on external hearts but has not yet been run on your heart. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in nontechnical terms it means you have to have love in your own machine before you can find it in others.

Customer: So what should I do ?
CSR: Can you find the directory called self-acceptance?
Customer: Yes, I have it.
CSR: Excellent, you are getting good at this.
Customer: Thank you.
CSR: You're welcome. Click on the following files and then copy them to the my-heart directory:
forgive-self.doc, self-esteem.txt, realize-worth.txt, and goodness.doc. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete nagging-doubt.exe from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey!
My heart is filling up with really neat smiles. Smile.mpg is playing on my monitor right now and it shows that warmth.com, peace.exe, and contentment.com are copying themselves all over my heart !
CSR: Then love is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go...
Customer: Yes ?
CSR: Love is a freeware.
Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people and they will return some really neat modules back to you.
Customer: I will. Thank you for your help. Love is running well. But what if I run into problems, by the way?
CSR: Please repeat the whole process. You can always call us. We are open 24 hours a day. "
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Understanding Existence

"May my soul bloom in love for all existence....."

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"A heart full of love, trust, loyalty, compassion is exactly the definition of religious consciousness. Without these qualities,we can never become aware of love, of beauty, splendor of existence and of God.
Existence is known through the heart and not through the head.The heart approaches the existence in deep love, trust. There is no other way to commune with the whole. These qualities, then, transform us slowly and slowly from doubting confusion into an absolute certainty of knowing.They take us out of the chaos of the head into the harmony of the heart."

"Love beauty,it is the shadow of God on the Universe"

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Ice-olation

"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our skins, for life"

"It is an established fact that all of us wish to remain happy and want to lead our lives peacefully. But still we feel miserable most of the time.This is because we remain too much in the self. We can be either in the existence or in the self.Both are not possible together.To be in the self means to be apart or to be separate and draw boundaries around us.To be separate means to make a distinction between 'what I am' and 'what I am not' i.e. the self isolates. It makes us frozen.We are no longer flowing. We have, therefore, become ice cubes. We do not have warmth and afraid of love. On the other hand, if we think that we are all part of of this whole universe and identify with it,then warmth(of love) comes to us , we start melting and the boundaries of separateness disappear. We become happy and joyful."

"Love creates an "us" without destroying "me".

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Is it Love or Attachment?

" We are aware that Love is being in harmony not only with our fellow beings but realisation of unity and oneness with the Universe.But in reality,we often consider ourselves separate from this mankind and therefore, we suffer.

The concept of Love today is distorted.The much talked about Love is nothing but personal attachment. All such attachments limit us and make us dependent giving way to our 'Fall'. When we attach ourselves to a particular person or an object,we often get detached from parents, friends etc.People often say, he or she has' fallen' in love.This is not love but personal attachment.In true Love one never falls but rises because Love is sublime ."

"Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me."

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