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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. – Jim Rohn
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. – Cyril Connolly
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An argument is the longest distance between two points of view. – Dan Bennett
Today we celebrate love in all its many forms. I understand the ancient Greeks had forty different words for love in each of its forms.
There is only universal love, yet it uniquely emerges in each relationship. Love holds the universe together. Love unifies. Love brings all separation back to oneness.
Today then, is far more than the celebration of romantic love. It is the celebration of the love every individual knows from within, offered and shared with all others.
My wish for you on this day is that you celebrate your love for all that is… for every individual… for all humanity. You will see that in so doing, your love in any personal relationship in your life is enhanced many fold. We are all family. We are all one. The world is one.
You are my Valentines.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
– Rudyard Kipling
It is beautiful that giving is best done to a hand outreached with palm pointing not up but down… giving blessings to the giver.
This was sweetly conveyed in the following interview of the wealthiest man in India.
The nature of your relationship with people determines the quality of your life.
The Truth about Religion and Flatlining
