Life an Odyssey
Contents: 1. it is because one antelope will blow dust from another’s eye that two antelopes walk together. 2. Who looks outwards, sleeps, who looks inwards, awakes. 3. Teach me to live, that I may dread the grave as little as my bed. 4. Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower gives, upon the heel that crushes it. 5. In dying to self, we experience the miracle of life. 6. If our dreams were to become reality, they would actually be nightmares. 7. When you finally trust yourself, you will know how to live. 8. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. 9. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve, mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. 10. The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. 11. That alone is living by which many others live. 12. Life without a mission is omission. 13. Even if I know that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. 14. I am time who destroys man’s world. I am time that is now ripe. Even without you, all these warriors, drawn up for battle will cease to exist. 15. When father helps his son to walk, both laugh, when a son helps his father to walk, both cry. 16. Do not grieve that rose bushes have thorns, rather rejoice that thorny bushes have roses. 17. If you want a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. 18. To bring anything in your life imagine it is already there. 19. Happiness is the ultimate goal- it is the goal of all other goals. 20. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. 21. To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. 22. Happiness is the end for which human beings are designed. 23. Some feel the rain, some just get wet. 24. One meets his destiny, often on the road he takes to avoid it. 25. Happiness achieved is materialistic, happiness felt is divine. 26. Not all men are born equal, some are born to win. 27. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore. Never tend to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. 28. And think not you can direct the course of love for love if it finds you Worthy, Directs your course. 29. If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters. 30. A bus that was bumping along a back road. 31. Tomorrow is a mystery, yesterday was a history, and the only gift that is with us is today; therefore it is called the present. 32. We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. 33. Life-an experiment. 34. A true story. 35. If therefore thin eye be single, thy body shall be full of light.
Life is a mystery for those who keep running behind their expectations, ignoring the need to explore their soul and the happiness therein. Exploring the soul needs reflection. Reflection leads to realization, realization leads to wisdom and wisdom is the path to enlightenment.
Life-An Odyssey is a choice selection of 35 musings. Each musing provides an introspective path to successfully overcome the different challenges that everyone encounters.
