Today: Develop your character so that joy comes from within – from the I Ching

Develop your character so that joy comes from within.  Do not depend on external pleasures or distractions for your contentment.  Know yourself and rely on that.  Extricate yourself from the tendencies for indulgence and diversion before you are broken by them. ”

Read the text from Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching
“The joyous mood is infectious and therefore brings success. But joy must be based on steadfastness if it is not to degenerate into uncontrolled mirth. Truth and strength must dwell in the heart, while gentleness reveals itself in social intercourse. In this way one assumes the right attitude toward God and man and achieves something. True joy must spring from within. But if one is empty within and wholly given over to the world, idle pleasures come streaming in from without. This is what many people welcome as diversion. Those who lack inner stability and therefore need amusement, will always find opportunity of indulgence. They attract external pleasures by the emptiness of their natures. Thus they lose themselves more and more, which of course has bad results. The load is too heavy for the strength of the supports. The ridge-pole on which the whole roof rests, sags to the breaking point, because its supporting ends are too weak for the load they bear. It is an exceptional time and situation; therefore extraordinary measures are demanded. It is necessary to find a way of transition as quickly as possible, and to take action. This promises success.”

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“Don’t utter words in friendship…” Yogi Bhajan

“Don’t utter words in friendship that can be used against you in animosity.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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Today: Develop your character and lead – from the I Ching

Rather than dwell on personal weaknesses, give attention to your character.  Find where it is lacking and develop it.  Turn to your training and the history of the traditions of the path you follow.  Doing so, you will store up a great potential for service and leadership which will be recognized by your peers.  They need someone like that.
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“Remember your blessings” Yogi Bhajan

“Remember your blessings over your weaknesses.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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Today: Remain modest, and everything will come to you – from the I Ching

Remain modest, and everything will come to you.  The universe loves an empty vessel. Conversely, it denies one who is full of himself.
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“Trust all for nothing” Yogi Bhajan

“Trust all for nothing. Trust everybody. Expect nothing. Need nothing. Want nothing. Those who trust everybody for nothing, Mother Nature and Heavenly Father will come through, it doesn’t matter what.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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Today: Remain focused on your goal – from the I Ching

Remain focused on your goal.  Do not let up. Do not be distracted, even by interim successes.  Draw from the inexhaustible wellspring of your divine nature.
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“If somebody says, “I love you…” Yogi Bhajan

“If somebody says, “I love you,” wait for the next step. People use love as a hook. They say they love you, but often they’re only out to get something from you.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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Today: Enjoy your abundance and use it for good – from the I Ching

Enjoy your abundance.  Be wary of allowing that to define you.  Take a lesson from the man who screens off his family and friends in order to protect his wealth.  He ultimately loses contact with friends and peers and ends up alone and lost.

Instead, use your wealth to stimulate a fiery passion within you to bring clarity of purpose accomplish great things for the good of all.  You can do miraculous things given the wherewithal.
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“Excellence, elegance, and grace are the three elements of a human being” Yogi Bhajan

“Excellence, elegance, and grace are the three elements of a human being. If somebody challenges any of these three in you, avoid that person.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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The Milky Way Galaxy

On the platform of our planet Earth we can view the milky extending across the sky.  Mostly, we see the edge of the flat disk that is the galaxy in which we live.

Published on Apr 28, 2017

This video takes a close look at a new image of the Milky Way released to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves — and in finer detail than recent space-based surveys.

 

Today: Go to the well – from the I Ching

Go to the well.  Draw from fundamental wisdom that doesn’t change and is there for all time and let it guide you in life.
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“Open the lips, sink the ship.” Yogi Bhajan

“Open the lips, sink the ship. That means don’t talk unnecessarily.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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Today: Don’t eat the apple – from the I Ching

Do not buy what the deceiver is selling you.  Don’t eat the apple. Separate yourself immediately.  Refine your nature with an eye toward achieving modest accomplishments, at first.
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“Don’t be so sweet …” Yogi Bhajan

“Don’t be so sweet that people will want to eat you, or so bitter that people will want to throw you away.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

 

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Today: Do not advance, rather resist in numbers – from the I Ching

Do not advance, rather resist in numbers.  Allow the walls that separate one from another to crumble under their own corrupt structure.  Come together in common purpose through your divine nature.  Together, anything is possible.
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