Saturday, October 16, 2010

Quotable Quotes

friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up  a silk paper wrapped package:

'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.'
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

'She got this the first time we went to New York ,

8 or 9 years ago.She has never put it on , 
was saving it for a special occasion.

Well, I guess this is it.

He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing 
he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:

'Never save something for a special occasion.
Every day in your life is a special occasion'.


I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived 
up to, not survived through.

I no longer keep anything.
I use crystal glasses every day...

I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it
whenever I want to.

The words 'Someday....' and ' One Day...' are fading away
from my dictionary.
If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen
 or do it now....

I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she
 knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody
can tell.

I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels.

I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favorite food.

It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time 
 had come..

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one..

If you are reading this, remember that someone cares for you and because, 
probably, there's someone you care about.

'One of these days' , remember that 'One day' is far away...
 or might never come......


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What is a 'HINDU' ?

In 1995, Chief Justice P. B. Gajendragadkarwas quoted in anIndian Supreme Court ruling:

When we think of the Hindu religion, unlike other religions in the world, the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion orcreed. It may broadly be described as away of life and nothing more.

Common Misunderstandings on Hinduism

Vedanta (and all Hinduism) is entirely monistic, believing only in the all-pervading world-soul, Brahman, rather than a personal God

This advaita philosophy is certainly popular, and offers a simple explanation of the many deities. Nonetheless, many theologians have considered God to be a person. He is not merely an anthropomorphic representation, nor are the various deities and murtis simply incarnations or representations of an impersonal Supreme.

Thus Hinduism includes both monism and monotheism. It is misleading to call the Abrahamic religions,"the monotheistic traditions," implying that monotheism is absent from the Eastern traditions. Vedanta includes many monotheistic schools. They may accept the existence of many gods and goddesses, but strongly emphasizes the pre-eminence of the Supreme Deity.



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Quotable Qoutes

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
(George Eliot -1819 - 1880)


We are the people our parents warned us about.
(Jimmy Buffet)
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality."

(Dante Alighieri )





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