Few quotes that always inspire me

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

 This quote is just perfect. What is expressing here is that we have to experience something ourselves in order to really understand it. If we are hearing something it might be interesting. If we are seeing something it might be beautiful. But only if we have it happening to ourselves – actively doing it – we can really know how it is.

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”

Its such a lovely quote made by Confucius, whose name literally means “Master Kong”, lived 551-479 BCE. He was a Chinese thinker and philosopher, whose teachings have deeply influenced not only Asian thought and life. He presented himself as a “transmitter who invented nothing” and he really pointed out the importance of learning, which is one reason he is seen by Chinese people as “The Greatest Master”.

Here i want to add another quote from my guru that always giving me great motivation........

"Someone can destroy me and might put me in ashes but from there i will born again"

“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

Another such a lovely quote made by Confucius here he is trying to explains the connection of learning and reflection. Reflection of that what we learned by thinking or of the results we get by applying the knowledge. “Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous” is a similar quote by Confucius. Learning is only useful if we connect the learning within our own minds, with what we already know and what is useful for us. This reflection of any knowledge also saves us from blindly following any knowledge without checking its truthfulness and validity to us.

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

This quote made by one of my favorite personal Steve Jobs who recently passed away.   Steve Jobs had and has a defining influence on the way we use technology today. While a genius at marketing and product-design (what a combination) he always strived for simplicity in Apple’s products.

Sometimes we need that kind of reinsurance that what we truly desire most in our hearts is really the right thing. When breaking through our fears and insecurities this wise and experience-based quote from Steve Jobs can come just at the right moment. Have the courage to follow your heart and give your best while doing so! “Everything else is secondary…”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Such a lovely quote made by Lao Tzu who was the most important spiritual Chinese sage. His name, which is also often called Laozi, literally means “Old Master” .He lived in the 6th century BC, at the same time as Confucius, who was born a generation after Lao Tzu. Here he made such a lovely quote to think about. How can that be in the first place: there is no rush and no hurry, but everything works out? Grass does not try to grow, it just grows. Water does not try to flow, it just flows. The only explanation is that everything is done in a naturally perfect way, without resistance and within the flow of life …if we connect our self  with the nature with deep meditation we will accomplish everything just like this.

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

It's my favourite one. This is a realization that can be understood intuitively if we practice meditation or able to quiet the mind of the constant chatter of thoughts.

Finally, i want to finish with something from my own experience "Surrendering our will to the Universe amazingly gives us much insight and therefore power and wisdom in the purest sense"

"Thought"

 “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

One of the famous quote from Budha. Now a days after plenty of research we finally find the importance of our thought that Budha  found thousands years ago. Today while i was doing mediation suddenly this thought comes into my mind that how many thought we have usually for everyday as for general.. Can we count it? did anybody already done this research?  There is really easy way to find it, i grab my laptop and searched on Google and i found a really astonishing result. It has been suggested that we have around 60,000 thoughts per day can you believe it. Then suddenly another thought came into my mind how many of those thoughts are self-defeating ones. I get worried. Its so easy that our train of thoughts jump from one track of thinking or subject to another without our real concern and these thought can be really self destructive one.

How difficult it can be to stop an old mental tape from playing over and over again about a frustrating conversation that we had with someone at work or at home. We replay the mental tape until we are exhausted-and yet where have we found ourselves? In the same place we were before but now with wasted mental, physical and emotional energy. We have solved and resolved nothing.

Do our thoughts shape our lives? Albert Einstein believed so. He said "The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking." James Lane Allen, author of the book "As a Man Thinketh" states, "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

How do we take control of our thoughts? How do we direct them from self-destructive thinking and behaviors to self-constructing thoughts and behaviors? By making a decision to do so and then committing to do mediation  we can begin to take charge of our lives. After the decision and commitments have been made, we must implement a mindful state of being by doing mediation regularly that is living a life which is mindful of what we are thinking and what we are doing.

I made a Autosuggestion for my self that i am  using now a days its help me a lot.

“I will adopt a 'be here now attitude' and focus. I always bring new ideas that nourish me on all levels and i commit myself to enjoying the present moment.” 

Finding "Flow"

I was using  an anti stress apps on my phone. Suddenly one quote grab my noticed. Its says "have you familiar with the phenomenon called "Flow". Its a almost meditative state where you will focused on a task and reduce self consciousness the method helps to remove stress. I get completely curious. Try to read as much information i can get and the more i read the more i get surprise. Doing meditation from long time i was familiar with  it. I found it from plenty of gurus and sadhus(saint) from south east Asia but never thought west did that much research on it and its already scientifically proven. Here i am trying to write something about flow to make it understand from different research.

As a technical  flow is defined as the movement, change,

energy, or force present within a sensory experience. Flow can occur within active states (such as

Touch, Feel, Image, or Talk) or within restful states (such as Relaxation, Peace, Blank, or Quiet).

Flow is not something separate from specific sensory experiences; it is a characteristic that

appears within a specific sensory experience as a result of continuously bringing clarity and

equanimity to that experience.

Flow and Vanishing represent two sides of Impermanence (Pali, anicca)

The impermanent nature of things can be looked upon from a pessimistic point of view or an

optimistic point of view. Pessimistically, everything passes, so to pin your happiness on any

object or situation is to set yourself up to suffer sooner or later. From this perspective,

anicca is linked to dukkha (which is from Sanskrit  the suffering nature of life). Optimistically, impermanence is movement, and (as Newton pointed out) movement reflects an underlying force. By focusing on

instantaneous rates of change in ordinary sensory experiences, we can come into direct contact

with the underlying Force that molds them…Spirit. From this perspective, anicca is linked to

prāna(Sanskrit again the ebullient energy of life).

It would be convenient to have a word for this positive aspect of change, so  call it Flow.

however in the “Positive Psychology” of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow refers to the pleasure derived from being in a state of samadhi as you do ordinary things, a notion different from (but not entirely unrelated to)

Flow as we will be using the term.

Sounds little complicated so make it  simple Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.

flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow, the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. To be caught in the ennui of depression or the agitation of anxiety is to be barred from flow. The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task although flow is also described (below) as a deep focus on nothing but the activity – not even oneself or one's emotions.