Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble

This one I found too touching and thought of sharing...
One day I decided to quit... I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. 


"God", I said. "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me...


"Look around", He said.. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?" "Yes", I replied.


When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed.


But I did not quit on the bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.
And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.


"In the third year, there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In the fourth year, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. "I would not quit.." He said. "Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth.


Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant... But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.


It had spent the five years growing roots.


Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."


He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots."


"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you. " Don't compare yourself to others .." He said. " The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern ... Yet, they both make the forest beautiful."


Your time will come, " God said to me. " You will rise high! " How high should I rise?" I asked.


How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return. "As high as it can? " I questioned.


" Yes. " He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can. "


I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you. He will never give up on you. Never regret a day in your life.


Good days give you happiness
Bad days give you experiences;
Both are essential to life.


A happy and meaningful life requires our continuous input and creativity. It does not happen by chance. It happens because of our choices and actions. And each day we are given new opportunities to choose and act and, in doing so, we create our own unique journey." Keep going...


Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you humble , Success keeps You Glowing, but Only God keeps You Going!

Parenting..

Parenting is one thing which can be done with the least knowledge as well as with utmost knowledge. It can be either be the most dreaded one or the most self satisfying one. So dynamic that one cant predict whats in store the next moment. Its an opportunity to unwind one's own karmas and an opportunity to untie the knots. Its wonderful to see that rights and wrongs changing according to the situations. What we thought of as right could take a U turn at the flip of a coin and become the most incorrect thing. Unless one go through the process, the experience of the roller-coaster ride can never be comprehended in words. Here are some of the great quotes on parenting.


Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward not tarries with yesterday.
                                                   
                                                                          -Khalil Gibran


You cannot make a plant grow in soil unsuited to it. A child teaches itself. But you can help it to go forward in its own way. What you can do is not of the positive nature, but of the negative. You can take away the obstacles, but knowledge comes out of its own nature. Loosen the soil a little, so that it may come out easily. Put a hedge round it; see that it is not killed by anything, and there your work stops. You cannot do anything else. The rest is a manifestation from within its own nature.
                                                         -Swami Vivekananda


Children should never be treated cruelly or harshly in the process of being educated. The whole essence of discipline is wrapped inside a small truth called love. If you really love your children and tell them not to something, they will rarely misbehave.
                                                           -Swami Rama


 It is above all through example that education becomes effective. To speak good words and to give wise advice to a child has very little effect if one does not oneself give him an example of what one teaches. Sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self-control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
                                                        -Sri Aurobindo


To consider the education of children is to prepare for future generations. The heart of the child is like a photographic plate without any impressions on it, ready to reflect all that it is exposed to. All the good qualities which help to fulfill the purpose of life are the natural inheritance that every soul brings to the earth; and almost all the bad traits that mankind shows in its nature are as a rule acquired after birth.
                                                      -Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan

Song Unsung

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;
only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house.
The livelong day has passed in spreading his seat on the floor;
but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house.
I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

-Tagore