| Aug.-1 | True wealth is but what you have in your heart and not what you have in your bank account." ~ Davis George
What causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature. Each of us is heir-apparent to the Emperor of emperors; are of the substance of God Himself…Swami Vivekananda Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feeds, and what one achieves.” ~ Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Aug. 2 | "True courage is in what you have in your mind and soul and not in what you boast." ~ Davis George
Teach yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping sould and see how it awakes…. Swami Vivekananda Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa. |
| Aug. 3 | True achievement is not in what you speak but in what you have done. Bloom where you are planted. ~ Davis George
It is love and love alone that I preach, and I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe…. Swami Vivekananda We ourselves feel that when we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~ Mother Teresa. |
| Aug. 4 | Reach out, touch and heal the broken world. Here lies your greatness. ~ Davis George Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. …. Swami Vivekananda When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people; those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. ~ John M Richardson, Jr. |
| Aug. 5 | You are called to lead and not to herd. ~ Davis George
Impress upon your children that true religion is positive and not negative, that it does not consist in merely refraining from evil, but in a persistent performance of noble deeds…. Swami Vivekananda The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosvelt |
| Aug. 6 | Where there is meditation, there is no need for medication. ~ Davis George Look upon every man, woman and every one as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve; serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. …. Swami Vivekananda The trouble with our times is that the future is not what is used to be. ~ Paul Valery |
| Aug. 7 | The power of NOW can transform your life. ~ Davis George
If the Lord grants that you can help any one of His children, blessed you are. …. Swami Vivekananda My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. ~ Charles Kettering |
| Aug. 8 | Be proactive and not reactive; respond and not react. ~ Davis George
We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy. …. Swami Vivekananda I am not afraid to tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. ~ William Allen White |
| Aug. 9 | You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. ~ Davis George
Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. …. Swami Vivekananda Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over nad gone. The future is not guaranteed. ~ Wayne Dyer |
| Aug. 10 | Think like a winner and be always part of the winning team. ~ Davis George
We have to remember that you, I and every one of us will be called upon to become Rishis; and we must have faith in ourselves; we must become world-movers, for everything is in us. …. Swami Vivekananda The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| Aug. 11 | Today is the day given by God to celebrate and make the best of it. ~ Davis George
My ideal is growth, expansion, development on national lines. …. Swami Vivekananda I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ~ Oscar Wilde |
| Aug. 12 | Plug into God to recharge your life just as you do with your mobile without fail!! ~ Davis George
That activity and self-reliance must come in the people of the country in time – I see it clearly. There is no escape…. Swami Vivekananda It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake |
| Aug. 13 | Effectiveness in life depends on the habit of learning- learning to pray, learning to preach, learning to do good, learning to practice what I preach. ~ Davis George First you have to build the body by good nutritious food – then only will the mind be strong. The mind is but the subtle part of the body. …. Swami Vivekananda You yourself, as much as anybody in the universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Budda |
| Aug. 14 | Comparison and competition drains out energy and synergy in work situation. ~ Davis George
You must retain great strength in your mind and words. “I am low, I am low” – repeating these ideas in the mind, man belittles and degrades himself. …. Swami Vivekananda Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ~ Albert Einstein |
| Aug. 15 | "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit" ~ Aristotle I wish that faith would come to each of you; and every one of your would stand up a giant, a world-mover with a gigantic intellect – an infinite God is every respect. …. Swami Vivekananda Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature. ~ Dabid Suzuki |
| Aug. 16 | Makaan banaya, Ghar nahim bana paya. I built a house but could not make a home; built a church but could not build community of believers; built a school/college but could not build the character of the students. ~ Davis George Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success …. Swami Vivekananda Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature. ~ Dabid Suzuki |
| Aug. 17 | Institutions are not assessed by the look of the building but by what is going inside the building. ~ Davis George You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. …. Swami Vivekananda Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~ Oliver Wendell |
| Aug. 18 | Focus on essentials. One can spend the whole life on non essentials and boast but will miss the target. ~ Davis George If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better…. Swami Vivekananda The ink of a scholar is more sacred than blood of a martyr. ~ Muhamad |
| Aug. 19 | Immense possibilities; talents unexplored; Help the youth to discover and they will blossom. ~ Davis George
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. …. Swami Vivekananda The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. ~ Mother Teresa |
| Aug. 20 | Habits can make or break one's life. Review you habits. ~ Davis George
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and tha …. Swami Vivekananda Whatever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. ~ David Steomdl - Rest |
| Aug. 21 | Only one person can change you, and that person's name is YOU. ~ Davis George
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. …. Swami Vivekananda I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vaccum. ~ Bishop Desmond Tutu |
| Aug. 22 | You are born to win. No one can stop you except yourself. ~ Davis George
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true …. Swami Vivekananda In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationship. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are far more important than tasks, functions, roles and positions. ~ Margaretg Wheatly |
| Aug. 23 | You are born to win. No one can stop you except yourself. ~ Davis George
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. …. Swami Vivekananda People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ~ Theodore Roosevelt |
| Aug. 24 | You are unique. God has created you in his own image. You have God particle in you. ~ Davis George
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong …. Swami Vivekananda Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. ~ Warren Bennis |
| Aug. 25 | Ignite the big dream; you are born for greater things. ~ Davis George
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. …. Swami Vivekananda The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. ~ Bess Myerson |
| Aug. 26 | Don't stoop down. Don’t look down on others. You will save energy for yourself. ~ Davis George As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. …. Swami Vivekananda We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~ Bertrand Russel |
| Aug. 27 | Celebrate life. You have only one life to live. ~ Davis George May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. Read more at …. Swami Vivekananda We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~ Bertrand Russel |
| Aug. 28 | Self discipline is the best medicine for lethargy and laziness. ~ Davis George Keep aside for the present the vrindavan aspect of Shri Krishna and spread far and wide the worship of Shri Krishna roaring the Gita out the voice of a lion …. Swami Vivekananda An ethical person ought to do more than he’s required to do and less than he’s allowed to do ~ Anonymous |
| Aug. 29 | They can, because they think they can; you can, because you think you can. Thinking makes the difference. ~ Davis George Work out the salvation of this land and of the whole world ,each of you thinking that the entire burden is on your shoulderss…. Swami Vivekananda Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Aug. 30 | East or west Aloysians are the best. ~ Davis George Carry the light and the life of the Vedanta to evry door and rouse up the divinity that is hidden with every soul …. Swami Vivekananda Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. ~ Lucille Ball |
| Aug. 31 | Catch them doing right and not wrong. ~ Davis George Be patriots love the race which has done such notes the more I love you my fellow countrymen: you are good and pure and gentle …. Swami Vivekananda We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ E.M. Forster |
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