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Be a leader
Lead yourself towards and into happiness
Lead yourself towards and into understanding
Look for and find love
Respect those who would have you lead them,
by walking beside them
When they look for the answers they cannot find
Join with them, Hand and Hand
When they look to understand, that which cannot be seen
Join with them, Heart to Heart
When they try and fail to fly up high
Join with them, Love to Love
When the vision of life has left their hearts
Join with them, Faith to Faith
Lead
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Look at it but you cannot see it!
Its name is Formless.
Listen to it but you cannot hear it!
Its name is Soundless.
Grasp it but you cannot get it!
Its name is Incorporeal.
These three attributes are unfathomable;
Therefore they fuse into one.
Its upper side is not bright:
Its under side not dim.
Continually the Unnameable moves on,
Until it returns beyond the realm of things.
We call it the formless Form, the imageless Image.
We call it the undefinable and unimaginable.
Confront it and you do not see its face!
Follow it and you do not see its back!
Yet, equipped with this timeless Tao,
You can harness present realities.
To know the origins is initiation into the Tao.
-TAO TEH CHING-
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One last untranslatable concept and I will let the Gita speak for itself.
That concept is shraddha, and its nearest English equivalent is faith.
I have translated it as such, but shraddha means much more. It is literally "that which is placed in the heart": all the beliefs that we hold so deeply that we never think to question them. It is the set of values, axioms, prejudices, and prepossessions that colors our perceptions, governs our thinking, dictates our responses, and shapes our lives, generally without our even being aware of its presence and power.
From the Introduction of, "The Bhagavad Gita"
by Eknath Easwaran
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Become the Sun Itself
A true seeker must transcend those joys and delights that are just the ray and reflection of the glory of God. He must not let himself grow content with such things, even though they are of God, come from God's grace, and are of the radiance of God's beauty, for they are not eternal; with reference to God they are eternal: with reference to man, they are not.
Think of the rays of the sun shining into houses. They are rays of the sun, and they are light, but they are attached to the sun and not the houses. When the sun sets their light no more remains.
What we have to do, then, is to become the Sun itself, so all fear of separation can forever be ended.
-Teachings of Rumi-
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"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
-Gandhi-
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"Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the Kingdom Of Heaven."
-Mathew 18:1-
-Holy Bible-
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