It isn’t enough that a man should live
For a man must love;
It isn’t enough that a man should love
For a man should love fully
and be able to bear
both the pain
and the highest joys
of his love.
He must know how to treasure that love,
how to protect it
with all its might,
against the world
that often gets jealous
of those
who have found true love.
Protect it
from the innermost chambers
of your heart
and let not your soul depart
without it.
It is your key
to eternity.
The Knowledge of the World
Don’t take in more knowledge than you can digest. Don’t take in such a burdensome quantity as to disturb the peace of your soul.
There is much useful knowledge we could benefit from. Knowledge that helps us do our jobs better, knowledge that helps make this world a better place.
But information overload has sneaked in suddenly into our lives, and we failed to recognize it when it arrived. We have consumed more than we could take in. Indeed, we became too knowledgeable to be truly beautiful.
Tons of books now tell us a thousand things we should do, a thousand reasons why we should do them, and a thousand more on how to do all of those things.
Many times, it is not anymore how much we know. It all redounds to who we are and how connected we are to the things that matter most to us.
Never memorize what you can look up in books. – Albert Einstein
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Acceptance is an important ingredient in the recipe of SURRENDER. To ACCEPT what is, what has been, what could be. To accept one’s tears and one’s cross. To accept one’s joys without the guilt of feeling that one does not deserve the treasure she has found.
Much of our suffering comes from non-acceptance. Much of our energy is wasted resisting what already is.
Acceptance however, does not mean accepting evil, of not giving a fight to do what’s right. But it means fighting in another way, a fight that does not focus on resisting evil, but that which focuses on surrendering to attain what is good.
Through acceptance, we defeat our denials. We accept the darkness for what it really is. But we remain unafraid, ,knowing that darkness cannot prevail over the light. When we are of the light, no darkness can defeat us – ever!
HEALTH simply means BALANCE
Your body has a natural capacity to HEAL itself.
It is the mind that rules the body. Therefore, to achieve a healthy body, work on a healthy mind.
A healthy mind stems from a firm belief in Unconditional Love – for others and for the self. Without this love, anger, fear and all repressed negative emotions create an imbalance within the mind.
Laughter heals what the mind fails to understand.
Tears release the excess grief of one’s heart and brings back balance to the soul.
Movement is as necessary to health as it is to life.
A person needs healthy food – both for the body and for the mind. (Man does not live by bread alone.)
Health respects the natural rhythm of life. There is a time to rest as there is a time to toil.
Breathing reminds us how dependent our health is to our connection with the Infinite Source that sustains all life.
Each individual has a risk tolerance that should not be ignored. Any good stock broker or financial planner knows this, and they should make the effort to help you determine what your risk tolerance is. Then, they should work with you to find investments that do not exceed your risk tolerance.
Determining one’s risk tolerance involves several different things. First, you need to know how much money you have to invest, and what your investment and financial goals are.
For instance, if you plan to retire in ten years, and you’ve not saved a single penny towards that end, you need to have a high risk tolerance – because you will need to do some aggressive – risky – investing in order to reach your financial goal.
On the other side of the coin, if you are in your early twenties and you want to start investing for your retirement, your risk tolerance will be low. You can afford to watch your money grow slowly over time.
Realize of course, that your need for a high risk tolerance or your need for a low risk tolerance really has no bearing on how you feel about risk. Again, there is a lot in determining your tolerance.
For instance, if you invested in the stock market and you watched the movement of that stock daily and saw that it was dropping slightly, what would you do?
Would you sell out or would you let your money ride? If you have a low tolerance for risk, you would want to sell out… if you have a high tolerance, you would let your money ride and see what happens. This is not based on what your financial goals are. This tolerance is based on how you feel about your money!
Again, a good financial planner or stock broker should help you determine the level of risk that you are comfortable with, and help you choose your investments accordingly.
Your risk tolerance should be based on what your financial goals are and how you feel about the possibility of losing your money. It’s all tied in together.