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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories,
but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
Love
LOVE. A word that is very dear to all of us. A word we all care about. A word that makes us cry makes us smile. But really,
we still don't have the exact definition of LOVE.
A few years ago, LOVE had a different meaning for me. It was an amazing feeling; everything seemed to be very filmy, like
we see in the movies. LOVE a girl, a little bit of tragedy in the middle and finally success and a happy ending. But, my friends,
real life is not a movie or a boogie show.
The first thing, LOVE is just not loving one or two people. LOVE is the way we all LOVE each other like a family; we should
care for each other. Like our family, we also have many brothers and sisters, elders and friends universally. We should love
all and love should be evenly balanced to everyone.
There are some factors that dishonor LOVE. The men or women who are imprisoned by their own self pride, arrogance and
egoistic nature don't have respect for LOVE because they never care.
For example: some people, when they succeed in their life, forget LOVE and its exact definition. In other cases people
have rude and boorish feelings for people of different origins, different states, cultures and languages. This also disrespects
LOVE.
There are other kinds of people who have a big attraction to the things that look good and sound good. They believe in
the show world. They give importance to flashy living or lifestyles. Sometimes this way of thinking also disesteems LOVE.
But friends, one of my best friends, a guy, told me that he LOVES only his job. That's right. A job is a responsibility
and our responsibility is not only to earn money, working in a corporate world, but also being a good human being.
We should teach LOVE to those people who dishonor it. We should LOVE them without limits and I am sure this will guide
them to LOVE you, as the world LOVES them.
LOVE starts with friendship and after a few days of going very deep into the ocean of LOVE, it continues - more than a
friend; but LOVE has never been stopped. In a few rare cases, LOVE starts with LOVE (like life) and ends with friendship,
nothing sad! Similarly, LOVE has never stopped, only conciliation is made with the cruelty of life. Still, life has its own
way for the verdict and that should always be in favor of the good and dedicated people and I think I am not good at all.
I LOVE you people and I LOVE everyone.
Sir Einstein said, "LOVE neither be created nor destroyed only transferred from one form to another like energy".
What Is Your Life's Blueprint?
I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?
Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as
the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.
Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper,
a solid and a sound blueprint.
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one in your life's blueprint should
be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you fell that you
are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your
various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life what your
lifes work will be. Set out to do it well.
And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers
and your fathers and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a
better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make
a beaten path to his door."
This hasn't always been true but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the
midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that
in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in stay in school.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular
moment in history to do it. Do not just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead
or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven
composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote
poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street
sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little
shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it
isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
From the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
All about the Secret
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it
opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all
these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person,
no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you.
They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life
isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in
the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter
working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-
hurt, a real gets-inside- you-and-rips-you-apart in pain.
The meaning of Life
Some years ago, in India, there was a famous Guru giving a talk to thousands of people. In the crowd were holy men, presidents,
film stars, musicians and many, many others. Apparently when this man talked, his voice was kind of 'hypnotic' and people
became entranced by his words.
When he had finished speaking, the Guru asked if there were any further questions. There was a silence as people absorbed
what they had just heard until a man stood up. He was a business type, a western, skeptical man and half-laughing he said
to the Guru, "Alright then, if you know everything, what's the meaning of life?"
The man was trying to embarrass the Guru, to kind of belittle him. But, the Guru answered, "I'll answer your question,
but first let me tell you something about yourself."
Now the man was the one that everyone was looking at and became uncomfortable.
"You have never been in love, have you?? Real, deep, true Love??"
"No", replied the man, now slightly embarrassed himself, "No, I haven't."
"Because." said the Guru, a person who asks the question that you asked me, about the 'meaning of life', is
really only telling you something about themselves. They have missed out on, or not experienced love. Basically, a person
who knew real Love, from their own direct, personal experience, would never even be able to ask the question, 'What is the
meaning of life' because they would already know."
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