Thoughts and Brainwash
International Family Day
The International Day of Families is observed on the 15th of May every year. The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 with resolutionA/RES/47/237 and reflects the importance the international community attaches to families. The International Day provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families.
In its resolution, the General Assembly also noted that the family-related provisions of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits of the 1990s and their follow-up processes continue to provide policy guidance on ways to strengthen family-centred components of policies and programmes as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development.
The International Day of Families has inspired a series of awareness-raising events, including national family days. In many countries, that day provides an opportunity to highlight different areas of interest and importance to families. Activities include workshops and conferences, radio and television programmes, newspaper articles and cultural programmes highlighting relevant themes.
Watch Your Temper
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes city.
--Proverbs
Overcome anger by love, ill will by good will; overcome the greedy with liberality, the liar with truth.
--Gautama Buddha
You are angry, and you watch it. You are not just angry, a new element is introduced into it: you are watching it. And the miracle is that if you can watch anger, the anger disappears without being repressed.
--Osho
Anger deprives a sage of his wisdom, a prophet of his vision.
-- The Talmud
Anger dissolves affection... Therefor, subvert anger by forgiveness.
--Samanasuttam
Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is observed on April 22 each year. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.
The name and concept of Earth Day was pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. He proposed March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.
Nature O Soul
Your real nature is as the one perfect, free and actionless consciousness, the all-pervading itnessunattached to anything, desireless and at peace. It is from illusion that you seem to be involved in samsara.
You are what you want to become. Why search for more? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole univese hase come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the pure land, nirvana, happiness and liberation are all you.
--Thich nhat Hanth
Every soul is o infinite value, eternal,free; no human being therefor, is so placed as not to lhave within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavour.
--Arthur JBalfour
International Women's Day
The best way to go forward is to encourage dialogue between genders so there is greater respect and understanding; there should be dialogue between religious heads of different faiths. Ask them how to improve the lives of women and let's hear what they say. That should be very revealing.
--Anandmurti Gurumaa
Don't fall into the trap of archaic mindstes that are regressive just because all you do is emulate those before you even if they are in the wrong.
--PV Vaidyanathan
No quality should be stamped as feminine stamped as feminine or masculine or masculine.
--Osho
Basant Panchami
Spiritually, the yellow color is a sign of prosperity; it is the color of love.
--Swami Sivananda
Basant is the season when nature is at its beautiful, bountiful best. Flowers are in full bloom and trees sprout shoots. It is a season when nature regenerates and everything is fresh and new. The cool morning air is laden with the faint smell of Mango blossoms…
--Anita Thakur
The naked earth is warm with spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze. --Julian Grenfell
Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain.
--Anonymous
Creative Freedom
Open up, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a new born child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path;
--Atharva Veda
Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation for human beings. The mind attached to sense objects leads to bondage and that which is free of sense objects sets one free.
--Amrita bindu Upanishad
The end product of education should be a free, creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature.
--S Radhakrishnan
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
Kahlil Gibran
Freedom From Ego
This self who gives rise to all works, all desires, all odors, all tastes, who pervades the universe, who is beyond words, who is joy abiding, who is ever present in my heart, is Brahmn indeed. To him I shall attain when my ego dies.
- Chandogya Upanishad
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
- Adyashanti
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
- Swami Sivananda
How much suffering and fear, and how many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "i", what should I do with this great demon?
- Shantidevi
The ego isn’t wrong, it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously.
- Eckhart Tolle
