Choice Or Chance

The choices you make today will determine your future.When you make a decision, ask yourself, "Where is this choice going to lead me? How will it affect my life tomorrow, next week, next month, years from now?"

Consider your life purpose, your goals, your direction, and your focus in the choices you make. Learn from your past choices. Some of them worked for you, some of them worked against you.Which choices will enable you to become the person you want to be?

You can spend your time doing the things that will bring you closer to your goals, or you can spend your time seeking immediate comfort and gratification.

The choice is up to you, and your choices will decide your future. A successful and fulfilled life is no more difficult than a life that is unsuccessful and unfulfilled. The people that are successful in life are not luckier than you, they are not more intelligent than you, they are not more trained than you. They are successful because they have chosen to do the things that will make them successful. Not just in the big decisions, but also the small every day, moment to moment decisions that make up living.

Life is made up of choices, not chances. Are you going to let chance circumstances rule your life, or are you going to make your own choices?

Which choices are you making today to decide your future?

Useless Life

A farmer got so old that he could not work the fields anymore. So he would spend the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father sitting there. "He's of no use any more," the son thought to himself, "he doesn't do anything!"

One day the son got so frustrated by this, that he built a wood coffin, dragged it over to the porch, and told his father to get in. Without saying anything, the father climbed inside.

After closing the lid, the son dragged the coffin to the edge of the farm where there was a high cliff. As he approached the drop, he heard a light tapping on the lid from inside the coffin. He opened it up. Still lying there peacefully, the father looked up at his son. "I know you are going to throw me over the cliff, but before you do, may I suggest something?" "What is it?" replied the son. "Throw me over the cliff, if you like," said the father, "but save this good wood coffin. Your children might need to use it."

HUMOR ....to brighten your day!..

	What's the difference between people who pray in church and those who pray in casinos? The ones in the casinos are serious.
	When I was young I used to pray for a bike, then I realized that God doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.
	A little boy went up to his father and asked : " Dad, where did all of my intelligence come from ? " His father replied : " Well, son, you must have gotten it from your mother, because I still have mine. "
	Paul's teacher sent a note home to his mother, saying : "Paul seems to be a very bright boy, but spends too much of his time thinking about girls. " The mother wrote back the next day : " If you find a solution, please advise. I have the same problem with his father ! "

Why do I have tears in my eyes...

Ask me how many times my heart has been broken
and I will tell you to look in the sky and count the stars...

Days continue to pass, stars continue to shine.
Why do I have tears in my eyes today when she was NEVER mine?

Tonic for the Mind - 26

Spirituality does not lie in any particular action. It lies in being what you are. It is 'Being', and remaining rooted in that 'Being'. Then whatever you do becomes spirituality. Spirituality is the vision of the oneness of all beings. You are one with all and there is no one different from you, or separate from you. Understanding and practicing the vision of oneness, you learn to look at your life as a whole and live a whole life.

- Swami Tejomayananda

Jidhar bhi dekhtaa hoon..

Jidhar bhi dekhtaa hoon tanhaai nazar aati hai
aapke intzaar mein har shaam guzar jaati hai

main kaise karun gilaa dil ke zakhmon se huzoor
aansu chhalakte hain meri soorat nikhar jaati hai

tod diye hain maine apne ghar ke saare aayine
meri rooh mera hi chehraa dekh ke darr jaati hai

ro ke halke ho lete hain zara se teri yaad mein...
zara si na-muraadon ki tabiyaat sudhar jaati hai

asar karti yakeenan gar choo jaati unke dil ko lekin
afsos ke aah meri fizaaon hi mein bikhar jaati hai

maikade mein jab bhi zikr aata hai tere naam ka
shaam ki pee hui sar-e-shaam hi utar jaati hai

kabhi aa ke mere zakhmon se muqaabilaa to kar
ae khushi tu moonh chhuppaa ke kidhar jaati hai

tuze inhi kaanton pe chal ke jaana hoga
unke ghar ko bas yahi aik rehguzar jaati hai......