40 Tips for a Better Life

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. Go to bed earlier and get more sleep.

4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following: 'Today, my primary purpose is to __________.'

5. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

6. Play more games and read more books than you did last year.

7. Make time to practice meditation, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured or packaged in factories.

11. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Clear clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new energy flow into your life.

14. Don't waste your energy on gossip, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the NEGATIVE BLUES away.

18. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You won't win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

23. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years, will this matter?'

26. Forgive everyone for everything.

27. What other people think of you is none of your business.

28. Remember, God heals everything.

29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

30. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

31. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.33. The best is yet to come.

34. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

35. Do the right thing!

36. Call your family often. Or email them to death!

37. Each night before you go to bed complete the following: I am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished _________.

38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

39. Enjoy the ride. You only have one ride through life so make the most of every moment, every single day.

40. Please share this with those you care about.

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

I have established laws in the universe that makes it possible to have - to create - exactly what you choose. These laws cannot be violated nor can they be ignored . You cannot not follow the law, for these are the way things work .You cannot operate outside of it.
Every moment of your life you have been operating inside of it .......
You are in partnership with God. My promise to you is to give you what you ask . Your promise is tomask to understand the process of asking and the answering .

Eckhart Tolle

End the delusion of Time

The more you are focused on time _ the past and future _ the more you miss the Now , the most precious thing there is.Why is it the most precious thing? Firstly because it is all there is . The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant .Life is now .There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Secondly the Now is the only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of now

THE POWER OF NOW

The joy of being
As soon as you honor the present moment all unhapinessand struggle disolve,and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present moment awareness whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality , care and love _ even the most simple action.

Eckhart Tolle

Witnessing

You will have to learn this new art of seeing things without judging , of seeing things without verbalising, of seeing things without evaluating.See the rose, see the bird on the wing, see the night full of stars, see the river passing by, see the traffic. Listen to the songs of the birds or a train passing by. Start learning a new art of just being reflective,not bring any thought in, not saying anything at all.
It will take time - old habits die hard - but one day it happens.If you persist , if you are patient enough, if you go on and on working at cleaning your inner world ,one day it happens.And the benediction of that day is immense. In fact , you are born anew.You start seeing the same world with new eyes because your eyes are so clear, your mirror reflects so deeply ,so totally,without distortion ,that the same trees that you have seen before thousands of times - are far more green than they have ever been . and their greenness is no ordinary greenness : it is luminous , it is radiating light.

OSHO

ZAZEN

only by practising zazen,Satori is possibleZazen means simply siting ,doing nothing.You are simply relaxing into your own being,not doing anything at all.It is not a question of doing.It is simply a question of being.You go on relaxing into your being. A moment comes when you are in your utter purity ,in your utter simplicity, in your utter innocence .That is satori.
Zazen is a beautiful word .It simply means just sitting _ not even doing meditation. In fact , you cannot do meditation. Meditation is just sitting silently; it is not a question of doing. If you are doing somthing you are disturbing your meditation.

OSHO

satori

To be ordinary ...and there isno competition at all.You can just be ordinary , nobody has any objection. People will simply feel sorry for you that you have dropped out of the competitive race.One competitor less..they will feel good but sorry for you.They will say "poor fellow!what happened to him?Why did he have to drop out?"The dropouts are not respectable people .
Buddha is a droupout.All real masters are dropouts.To be a sannyasin means to be a dropout. To dropout of the rat race is to drop in, because when you are in arace you cannot enter in.When you are no longer in the race there is no where to go.You start moving inwards because life is a flow : if there is no outer direction it takes the inner direction. If the goal is not there far away in the future, then you start moving into your nature in the present. That is satori.

OSHO