Chronicles of Narnia

Debt

One midnight, deep in starlight still,
I dreamed that I received this bill:
“( . . . . . . . in account with Life):

Five thousand breathless dawns all new;
Five thousand flowers fresh in dew;
Five thousand sunsets wrapped in gold;
One million snow-flakes served ice-cold;
Five quiet friends; one baby’s love;
One white-mad sea with clouds above;
One hundred music-haunted dreams
Of moon-drenched roads and hurrying streams;
Of prophesying winds, and trees;
Of silent stars and browsing bees;
One still night in a fragrant wood;
One heart that loved and understood.”
I wondered when I waked at day,
How- how in God’s name- I could pay!

~ Cortland Sayres

The Brick

Thought of The Day

Between the hater and the hated, it is always the hater who get hurt more.

So, forgiveness is not liberating the other from you, but liberating yourself from the other. Forgiveness is giving up your right to hurt the other for hurting you.

Simply put, forgivness just means "I value my peace more than anything that has happened to me in my life."

Thought of The Day

Sooner or later, you start taking yourself
seriously. You know when you need a break.
You know when you need a rest. You know what
to get worked up about and what to get rid of.
And you know when it's time to take care of
yourself, for yourself. To do something that
makes you stronger, faster, more complete.
Because you know it's never too late to have a life.
And never too late to change one.

~NIKE Advertisement

Friendship and Love

Friendship: the state of being attached to another by affection or esteem; a favored companion.

Love : strong affection another; affection based on admiration, benevolence or common interests; warm attachment, enthusiasm or devotion, and unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another .

Can love survive without friendship? Can friendship live without love? Both are a part of the same coin. Relationships, specially the ones between lovers/spouses die not because of death of love but because of disappearance of friendship. When affection vaporizes, the heart is but an organ. And organs do not have the capacity to feel anything, leave aside the warmth of love.

Of course the love for your friend will be quite different from the love for your lover, but its all a matter of degrees. Perhaps here in the second case, comes the element of physical attraction to begin with but in the end just this factor alone cannot make love survive. Our everyday existence is overflowing with instances of this. Man is a feeling animal. He is a spiritual being. He thrives on emotional attachment. That’s why two machines cant stay forever together. They detach.

Before being a lover, be a friend. Before being a spouse be a friend. Before falling in love, rise in friendship. Love might make the world go around; but Friendship will make love come full circle as if each moment with him/her is like the first “hello”!

lopamudra

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Life has just three rules:- Paradox, humour, and Change.

Paradox...
Life is a mystery. Don't waste time trying to figure it out.

Humor...
Keep a sense of humour, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure.

Change....
Know that nothing stays the same.

~Movie-Peaceful Warrior