" Spiritual training of an individual involves the development of a sort of X-Ray vision in him or her that can see thru all names and forms, and all particularities, and exposes the Core Reality in this universe. A Generalized universal vision " 'Spring Leaves' by KMG
Hello to you all ! Somvaar Suprabhaath !
Today herewith are two topics of general interest :
S O ME R E F L E C T I O N S O N F R I E N D S H I P & G I V I N G
On FRIENDSHIP :
1. Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
2. Friendship is love without its wings.
3. Friendship is forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
4. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
5. True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
6. Those who seek faultless friends remain friendless.
7. Be true to your word, your work, and your friend.
8. Two friends cannot long be friends, if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
9. The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other, but never ask it.
10. Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
11. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
12. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for, it is one of God's best gifts.
13. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ( Shakespeare )
14. When the entire world leaves you, the person who stays with you is your best friend.
On GIVING :
1. Giving, because it is proper to give, without thought of return, at a proper time, and in proper circumstances, to a worthy person, is enlightened giving.
Giving with regrets, or in expectation of receiving some favor, or of getting something in return, is selfish giving. ( Bhagavad Geeta )
2. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give. ( Kahil Gabran )
3. Wealth is not measured by how much you have, but by how much you give.
4. It is not for thee alone, pass it on, pass it on. ( Jesus Christ )
5. Fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
6. Money is like a manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good.
7. Money, like blood, should always be in circulation, and not to be accumulated.
8. Money is like an arm or leg ----- use it or lose it.
9. Charity sans publicity, is real charity.
10. Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
11. Those who act kindly in this world, will have kindness.
12. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
( Source of the above : Dr. Subba Rao Kuchibhatla, Maryland )
To conclude, here is a poem of mine from the book ' Random Musings ' :
A W A V E O F T H E S E A
I am A traveller wearied
Been over hills and dales
Craving for sweet home.
I am An actor on the stage
Played hero and villain
Longing to be just myself.
I am The dazzling sun
Hid behind the clouds
Seeking to shine as ever.
I am A wave of the sea
Risen up so high
Pining to merge with the main.
I am A speck of Divinity
Yearning to reunite
With the Parent Source Divine.
Well, that's it for today. Wishing you all a lovely week ahead, Krishna M. Gutala
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