The Peaceful Warrior

Peaceful Warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the waters clear. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself.They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things. Ready to use all situations, waisting nothing, they embody the light.
Peaceful warriors have three great treasures:simplicity, patience and compassion. Simple in actions and in thoughts, Patience with both friends and enemies, they live in harmony with the way things are. Compassionate towards themselves, they make peace with the world.
Some may call this teaching nonsense; others may call it lofty and impracticle. But to those who have looked inside themselves, this nonesense makes perfect sense.And for those who put it into practice, this loftiness has deep roots.

Adapted from a poem by Lao-tzu

Walk softly and carry no stick

A Smile

Smiling is infectious; you catch it like the flu. When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin
And when he smiled I realized I'd passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile and then I realized it's worth,
A single smile, one just like mine, could travel round the earth.
So if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected;
Let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected.

-Anon

A smile is a free gift you can give to anyone

The Eagle & the Chicken

A man found an eagle's egg and put it in the nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of it's strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe "Who's that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, king of birds" said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth- were chickens." So the eagle lived and died a chicken for that is what he thought he was.

-Anthony DeMello
Author of Awareness

A belief is what you perceive to be true.

The Most Powerful Thing You Can do

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.