Entries from August 2009
There was once a young prince who, having reached the age of majority, left home to live on a grand estate given to him by his father. He was told that if he ever needed help he was to put a light in the uppermost tower window, and his father would send a special horse and carriage to carry him to safety.
However, his father also warned him that an evil wizard, an enemy of the kingdom, lived not too far from his new home. The prince was told to be wary when setting his signal, for this wizard would also see this light and might himself send his own horse and carriage to carry the prince off to who knows what kind of danger.
Of course, this frightened the young ruler-to-be. After all, how would he be able to tell the difference? His father assured him there was a foolproof measure. Each time, before entering the rescue carriage, he was to closely examine the horse pulling it. A light-colored horse would always take him to safety, but a dark horse would always take him to danger.
As one might imagine, many of the ordeals that come with the ruling life befell the prince, each one causing him to put a light in the window. And for many months, because he was in such a rush to escape his castle when he felt in danger, he failed to heed his father’s warning; time and time again he neglected to examine the horse that came to get him. As a result he often found himself on one painful wild ride after another where, too late, he realized his inattentiveness was causing him as much distress as the condition he was trying to escape.
Eventually, he found the presence of mind – before he would get into the carriage that had come for him – to see if the horse pulling it had been sent by the evil wizard or by his father.
— Unknown
Categories: Citações · Estórias · Mente
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
— Richard Bach
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
— The Buddha
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There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.
— Lao Tzu
Categories: Citações · Enlightenment
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There were two monks who lived together for forty years and never argued. Not even once. One day, one said to the other, ‘Don’t you think it is time that we had an argument, at least once?’
The other monk said,’Fine, let us start! What shall we argue about?’
‘How about this peace of bread?’ said the first monk.
‘Okay, let us argue about this peace of bread. How are we going to do it?’ said the second monk.
The first said, ‘This bread is mine. It belongs to me.’
The second said, ‘If it is, take it.’
— Unknown
Categories: Estórias
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self. That which arises in this body as ‘I’ is the mind. When the subtle mind emerges through the brain and the senses, the gross names and forms are cognized.
When it remains in the Heart, names and forms disappear. If the mind remains in the Heart, the ‘I’ or the ego which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self, the Real, Eternal ‘I’ alone will shine.
Where there is not the slightest trace of the ego, there is the Self.
— Ajay Kapoor
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The greatest discovery you’ll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.
— Jose Silva
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A miser had accumulated five hundred thousand dinars and looked forward to a year of pleasant living before he made up his mind how best to invest his money, when suddenly the Angel of Death appeared before him to take his life away.
The man begged and pleaded and used a thousand arguments to be allowed to live a little longer, but the angel was obdurate. “Give me three days of life and I shall give you half my fortune,” the man pleaded. The angel wouldn’t hear of it and began to tug at him.
“Give me just one day, I beg of you, and you can have everything I accumlated through so much sweat and toil.”
The angel was adamant still.
He was able to wring just one little concession from the angel-a few moments in which to write down this note:
“Oh you, whoever you are that happen to find this note, if you have enough to live on, don’t waste your life accumulating fortunes. Live!
My five hundred thousand dinars could not buy me a single hour of life!”
— From ‘Heart of the Enlightened’ By Anthony de Mello
Categories: Estórias · Sociedade
