This is to be my symphony.....

(Further insights from In Search of your true self….Walter Staples)

Have you ever wondered how we got into this world?

For the first nine months, of our life, we got to spend time in this wonderful place called – womb. Now it wasn’t a hotel room but it was better than a hotel room in many ways because, the temperature there was just right, service 24 hours a day, tipping was not allowed, had latest bedding-a wall-to-wall bed! In fact we never had to get out of bed. Things couldn’t have been more perfect until, for some reason, we got evicted. Now we don’t know why-whether we got too rowdy or behind on the rent-but out we went. The first thing that happened was someone wearing a mask grabbed us by our two feet, turned us upside down, and gave us a smart whack on the behind. Then this person cut our umbilical cord and tied it in a tight little know. Hard to believe, perhaps, but this was our welcome to the real world! And for many of us, it never got any better.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have it made some difference that you lived at all.

The secret of Living is Giving:

I sit in solitude
And contemplate life.
I marvel at nature,
I cry at strife.

I ask, ‘what can be done
By only one mind?’
The answer comes back-
‘A goal you must find!’

So a goal I must find
One bigger than me.
I decide to give-thoughts,
To help Humanity.

Its hope I send out
So that all can see,
We are what we are
But we can be what we can be.

So-look up and look out,
Give what you can give,
Its your special blessing
Helping others to live!

I know that : The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a hppy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, This is to be my symphony.

God created each of us in His own image. He put a little of Himself,
-His love, His grace, His power- in each of us. Unfortunately, this is the last place most of us think to look to find it.

Isn’t it interesting – almost everything we know in our lives at one time or another goes out of style. But what is the one thing that has never gone out of style, that is timeless, enduring – of course, it is LOVE.

Also do remember:
The seven Habits of Highly effective people, by Steven R. Covey:
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Seek first to understand, than to be understood.
5. Think win-win
6. Synergy