"My happiness and goodness will be preserved if our nation has prosperity, normalcy and stability."

Happy New Year to everyone. This year, I would like to share with you one of the most wonderful speeches from our King.

"The Kingdom was filled with happiness on Dec 5 when His Majesty left Siriraj Hospital and travelled to the Amarin Winitchai Throne Hall in the Grand Palace where he granted an audience to royal family members and key administrative, judicial and legislative figures.

The King delivered a short speech to the dignitaries. He said:

"My happiness and goodness will be preserved if our nation has prosperity, normalcy and stability."

by Bangkokpost

What gifts to get for your loved ones--something without anything in return!

I whole heartedly agree with the thought and the contribution from Eknath. These days, we tend to have less time for our loved ones; therefore, we usually get things for them regardless their real needs. By doing so, we feel less guilty....

I personally love making others happy by doing things for them--cooking or baking or making things that are unique and special for my loved ones. Yet, I need to give TIME, my personal time, for them!!!!!

Here is the great thought and wonderful contribution from Eknath I would like to share with my readers.

Enjoy!

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more.
– William Wordsworth


This morning, when I was reading an important New York paper, I noticed an article on the dynamics of gift-giving. This article quoted a distinguished professor of sociology as saying that in every gift there is a reciprocal relationship, even if it is not conscious. In other words, when you are making a gift, you are expecting a gift in return.

Not only that, there are very subtle social gradations: gifts to longtime friends, to recent friends, to acquaintances, to possible benefactors. All these factors come into play when choosing the gift. No wonder shopping for gifts is so terribly time-consuming. No wonder people feel confused and inadequate about what to give.

But the spiritual approach is very simple. Whatever you give – it may be a check to a worthy cause, it may be clothes to a person who is cold, it may be food to the hungry, it may be medical help to the sick – do it without thinking of getting anything in return. Do it as a service to God, not reluctantly, but with joy.

What love is... from Thomas a Kempis and Great Contribution from Eknath

Eknath Easwaran’s Thought for the Day

December 9

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking her own; for wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.
– Thomas a Kempis

Our English word love has become almost impossible to use. We say he’s “falling in love” as if it were something that could happen every day, like falling into a manhole. Is it so easy to fall in love?

Listen to our popular songs; look at our magazines and newspapers. When they say, “I love you,” that’s not what I hear; I hear “I love me.” If we could listen in on a marriage proposal with the ears of Thomas a Kempis, this is what we would hear. The man gets down on bended knee and says, “Sibyl, dear, I love me; will you marry me?”

There is a little undertone of this in almost all relationships. This is how we have all been conditioned, to put ourselves first at least part of the time. Most relationships begin with some passionate “I love you’s” and some undertones of “I love me.” But if we want our relationship to blossom, we’ll gradually change the focus from me, me, me to you, you, you. Then our selfish passion is transformed into pure love.

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