Joy In Giving

It is a great feel to receive a gift from someone. But its true that more satisfaction comes from giving to others, knowing that you helped and made someone happier. There is something very nourishing to our soul when we give and help others.

If you ask people why they give? They reply as, god wants me to. I feel better about myself, others need and I have. I want to share. This shows how good-hearted they are.

I always wish to have the attitude of helping someone without asking. Here is an incident. One man was washing his new car. His neighbor asked him for how much he bought that car. The man replied that it’s a gift from his brother. Then the neighbor said he would love to have a car like that. Hearing this, the man said to his neighbor that he should wish to have a brother who could gift a car. Listening this conversation, the neighbor’s wife said, she wanted to be that brother who gifted the car. What an amazing thinking about giving happily!

One need not be rich to give. Having a kind heart filled with love and care is enough. What can we give? It is not just money or materials, we can gift time, happiness, hug and care, there is a long list that we can offer.

Giving is not about possessions always. A smile, a heartfelt wish, a companionship for a walk, your precious time to listen others talk, a simple message, mail or a call asking how are you? Everything counts in giving. You don’t have to look chances for giving. Let it come from you, from your heart. The one who give away is more fortunate than the one who receive. So friends, from now lets all find our true happiness in joy of giving.

“It’s easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day, the thrill of giving lasts for lifetime”

                                                          -Joan Marques

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Live Now

Everything happens in a moment, but the mind unaware of it. Every present we live will be stamped as past certainly. The mind wonders to the past or longs for the unhappened future but all these are realized in the moment. That’s now.

Being conscious in the moment opens up the possibility of a positive and promising future. Ofcourse , this doesn’t mean we don’t need to plan, set goals or prepare for future. We can do all these things and still enjoy each moment as it unfolds.

But how to live now? Its very simple. You just focus on the moment 100%. This means that you do not think about the past or project a future and keep on being in the moment only one moment at a time. Some call this as meditation and indeed your life becomes a continuous meditation. Life is not about achieving but experiencing second by second.

Everybody can live now. So there is nothing to learn or become – only to realize. The biggest hurdle to live now is haunting past and the scary future. Balance the life exactly in the middle between the past and future without any tilting to either direction.

It is a matter of the right attitude. Life becomes a happy and enjoyable trip when the attitude towards it and its events are positive and the present moment is used in the best possible way.

As our minds recreate our past in thoughts, we find that the present is always the mirror of the past. Then nothing new happens and we complain that life is always the same, that nothing changes. Weird, foolish and funny at the same time, isn’t it?

Steps to practice to live now:

• Stop thinking about past and future (atleast not more).

• Don’t rush up with your life to achieve your long term goals. You may forget to live happily.

• Don’t try to please everyone you meet in your daily life (cos half of your life will end up doing this rather than living your own).

• Do the things which you enjoy and not the ones that are forced to do.

• Do your work with enthusiasm and fun mixed (if your work is not so, then make it so in your own way).

• Stop multi-tasking often (do a single work with more concentration by enjoying it).

Will this work? Really I don’t know. But surely it will helpful to relieve the stress in your life. Try it!

Kiss your life

Accept it, just as it is

Today

Now

So that those moments of happiness

You’re waiting for don’t pass you by.

                                                -Philip Bosman

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Heart Feelings 8

Just take all the pleasures

that comes, don’t think of all

the tomorrows. There will be

something nice and pleasant

if you look for it in the right place.

We must not look for tomorrow’s

joy. We can’t find them tonight.

There are flowers that fold their

leaves but will open again tomorrow.

Don’t be shortsighted to sit down

and cry tonight about it!

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