REGINA GHANDI DALAI LAMA LIFE LESSONS
To read in the evening (Thanks Craig and Omar!)
I marked x as the one I liked the most and BIG X my best best preferred. What is your vote so I can give a second chance and perspective to some I missed.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Gandhi "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Dalai Lama
1) Take into account that great love and great achievement involve great risk
Regina (like you and me not as impressive than above 2 but still changing the world!) X3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone, X20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer, X22. Over prepare, then go with the flow, X37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable, X37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable, X40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back., X43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
MORE DATA:
1. From the Dalia Lamaโฆ
X1) Take into account that great love and great achievement involve great risk
2) When you lose, donโt lose the lesson
3) Follow the three Rโs:
a. Respect for self
b. Respect for others, and
c. Responsibility for all your actions
4) Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck
5) Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly
6) Donโt let a little dispute injure a great relationship
7) When you realize youโve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it
x8) Spend some time alone every day
9) Open your arms to change, but donโt let go of your values
10) Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer
x11) Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older think back, youโll be able to enjoy it a second time
12) A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation of your life
x13) In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Donโt bring up the past.
14) Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality
15) Be gentle with the earth
16) Once a year, go someplace youโve never been before
17) Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18) Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it
19) Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Thanks Craig B
This week is the first week of the rest of your life
Happy New week (511)
2. Gandhiโs Fundamentals for Changing the World
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
x"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
x"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
x"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."
x"Leadership means getting along with people."
X"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."
Have a great week
Thanks Omar M
3. Regina
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolls over Yearly '
x1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
X3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
x5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
x7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
x13. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
x14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
X20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
X22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
x24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
x26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
x28. Forgive everyone, everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
x31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
X37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
38. Read the Psalms and Proverbs. They cover every human emotion.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
X40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
42. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
X43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
45. The best is yet to come.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
48. If you don't ask, you don't get.49. Yield.
50. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Regina Brett http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2006/05/regina_bretts_45_life_lessons.html . recieved from craig brinkman may 08
