DAILY SPIRITUAL JOKE
Spiritual Jokes
A little boy was overheard praying:
"Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.
I'm having a real good time like I am."
DAILY SHORT SPIRITUAL STORY
The Little Soul and the Sun - Part 1
There once was a soul who knew itself to be the light.
This was a new soul and so, anxious for experience.
"I am the light" it said.
"I am the light"
Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it, could not substitute for the experience of it.
And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light.
Every soul was grand and every soul was magnificent and every soul shone with the brilliance of God's awesome light.
So the little soul was as a candle in the sun.
In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it really is.
Now it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself.
So great was it's yearning that God one day said,
"Do you know little one, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?"
"Oh, what, God? What? I'll do anything!" the little soul said.
"You must separate yourself from the rest of us"
God answered, "and then you must call upon yourself the darkness"
"What is the darkness, o Holy One?" the little soul asked.
"That which you are not" God replied and the soul understood.
And so this the soul did, removing itself from the ' All ' going even unto another realm.
And in this realm the soul had the power to call into it's experience all sorts of darkness.
And this it did.
Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out,
"Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?"
God replied:
"Even has have you, in your blackest times.
Yet I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are;
ready always ready, to call you home.
Therefore be a light unto the darkness and curse it not.
And forget not who you are in the moment of your encirclement by that which you are not.
But do praise to the creation even as you seek to change it.
And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph.
For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are - and Who You Want to Be.
~ From the book Conversations with God
DAILY INDIAN MASTERS WISDOM
Indian Masters wisdom
Children, Mother does not say that you should believe in Mother or in a God in heaven.
It is enough to believe in yourself.
Everything is there in you.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
DAILY SPIRITUAL WISDOM
Spiritual Wisdom about non-attachment
The truly wise are content to be last.
They are, therefore, first.
They are indifferent to themselves.
They are, therefore self-confident.
~ Lao Tzu
DAILY SUFI WISDOM
Sufi-wisdom about ungratefulness
I have learnt silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind;
yet strange,
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~ Kahlil Gibran
DAILY PRAYER FOR PEACE
Non-violence
Weapons are the bearers of bad news;
all people should detest them.
~ Lao Tsu
DAILY HINDU WISDOM
Hindu Wisdom about knowledge of Brahman
"The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman.
One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace
of worldliness.
How hard the rishis laboured !
Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage,
and would spend the whole day in solitude,
meditating on Brahman.
At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots.
They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature.
Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness."
~ Ramakrishna
DAILY CHRISTIAN WISDOM
Christian Wisdom about working with God
The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails.
~ Unknown
DAILY BUDDHIST WISDOM
Buddhist(Zen) wisdom
A three-year old knows
Baiju asked the monk Niaoke
"How should people cultivate in their daily life to be in accordance with the Way?"
Niaoke replied
"Do not do any bad deeds.
As for good deeds, pursue all of them and do not turn your back on any of them."
Baiju was puzzled and said
"but this is something even a three year old child already knows".
Niaoke replied
"A three year old child knows, but a hundred year old person may not be able to do it".
DAILY NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM
Native American Prayer: Hold On
Hold on to what is good,
Even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if someday I'll be gone away from you.
~ A Pueblo Indian Prayer
DAILY ONENESS WISDOM
Together in Unity
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
DAILY ANGELS WISDOM
Wisdom about Angels
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots, of angels.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
THE ONENESS MINUTE
We join our hearts and minds together every day at 11:11 to acknowledge our Oneness with All That Is.
Thoughts of separation create division.
Thoughts of Oneness create joining.
Where are my thoughts today?
In this moment,
I can choose to create a life of peace,
a life of love,
a life of joy.
