santmat: You Never Loose Anything When You GiveDear Ones,May the grace of God be on you all.We are seekers after Truth and for that purpose we have joined various religions, which are our schools of thought. Truth is not the exclusive right of any particular creed, or place, or age. It is a man’s birthright. Just as every man has the right to breathe the air, and absorb the rays of the sun, we are all privileged to draw from the Unseen Source of Life, Strength, and Wisdom, which is within each of us. That infinite supply cannot be exhausted. Anyone belonging to any religion can delve it out from within with the help of somebody who is competent - call him by any name you like. Take all that you can. Not only will it suffice for you, but through it you will become instrumental in helping your fellows. Your smile will inspire another to smile. Your strength will impel another to be strong. A noble soul always draws forth the noble quality in others.God is love, and our souls are also love and it is through love alone that we can know God. Love knows true renunciation, service, and sacrifice for the good of others without any consideration. A true man is one who is truthful, leads a life of continence, radiates love to all others for the sake of God residing in them, and knows “giving,” “giving,” and always “giving.” We never lose anything when we give. When you give love, do you find that you have less love in your heart? On the contrary, you are conscious of an ever greater power of loving, but no one can be convinced of these things till he has applied them in a practical way. An ounce of practice is worth tons of theories.It is a practical age - therefore, it is for us to make our idealism more practical. Believe in God, Who is Spirit; Love - the principle of all things; Who is in me and I am in Him; Who resides in every heart. We should therefore love all mankind and others. If one cannot love those whom he sees, how can he love God whom he does not see?There is a Religion above all religions which teach rituals, dogmas, and doctrines. That is Truth. Religion truly means “re” - back, and “ligio” which comes from “ligore” - to bind; i.e., to bind our soul back to Truth - God. You have to be born into the Truth. All Masters who come from time to time speak of the same Truth. We are lovers of Truth. That is the True Religion, on the basis of which the whole world can sit together and the East and West could be united.The purpose before me is to bring together all children of God (now forming part of various religions) to understand each other and find a way back to God. I am glad that I found a great response to this Message of Love, with the grace of my Master - the Man-in-God.My hearty thanks and best wishes go to all who have been helpers in this Noble Cause of Humanity.Yours affectionately,Kirpal Singh1964

santmat:

You Never Loose Anything When You Give

Dear Ones,

May the grace of God be on you all.

We are seekers after Truth and for that purpose we have joined various religions, which are our schools of thought. Truth is not the exclusive right of any particular creed, or place, or age. It is a man’s birthright. Just as every man has the right to breathe the air, and absorb the rays of the sun, we are all privileged to draw from the Unseen Source of Life, Strength, and Wisdom, which is within each of us. That infinite supply cannot be exhausted. Anyone belonging to any religion can delve it out from within with the help of somebody who is competent - call him by any name you like. Take all that you can. Not only will it suffice for you, but through it you will become instrumental in helping your fellows. Your smile will inspire another to smile. Your strength will impel another to be strong. A noble soul always draws forth the noble quality in others.

God is love, and our souls are also love and it is through love alone that we can know God. Love knows true renunciation, service, and sacrifice for the good of others without any consideration. A true man is one who is truthful, leads a life of continence, radiates love to all others for the sake of God residing in them, and knows “giving,” “giving,” and always “giving.” We never lose anything when we give. When you give love, do you find that you have less love in your heart? On the contrary, you are conscious of an ever greater power of loving, but no one can be convinced of these things till he has applied them in a practical way. An ounce of practice is worth tons of theories.

It is a practical age - therefore, it is for us to make our idealism more practical. Believe in God, Who is Spirit; Love - the principle of all things; Who is in me and I am in Him; Who resides in every heart. We should therefore love all mankind and others. If one cannot love those whom he sees, how can he love God whom he does not see?

There is a Religion above all religions which teach rituals, dogmas, and doctrines. That is Truth. Religion truly means “re” - back, and “ligio” which comes from “ligore” - to bind; i.e., to bind our soul back to Truth - God. You have to be born into the Truth. All Masters who come from time to time speak of the same Truth. We are lovers of Truth. That is the True Religion, on the basis of which the whole world can sit together and the East and West could be united.

The purpose before me is to bring together all children of God (now forming part of various religions) to understand each other and find a way back to God. I am glad that I found a great response to this Message of Love, with the grace of my Master - the Man-in-God.

My hearty thanks and best wishes go to all who have been helpers in this Noble Cause of Humanity.

Yours affectionately,

Kirpal Singh
1964

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faith-in-humanity:

The Crying Rainforest

Dedicate 48 minutes of your time to watch the ‘The Crying Rainforest’ &  become aware of what’s happening to the Earth’s rainforests. To OUR rainforests. We may not live in that exact area, but it is still our rainforest. It is our Earth. We belong to the Earth & there is no exclusivity in that.

‘The Crying Forest’ paints a shocking portrait of life in the Brazilian Amazon through the story of a couple that lived and died for the rainforest.

At times, this is how Allah frees us

This is a great piece on Mystic Saint about how we lose sight of what’s important. How we stop being led by our spirit. I would even go a bit further and say that we’ve also stopped depending on Mama Earth. She gives, we take and never thank. 

Allah gives us gifts. But then we often become dependent on those gifts, instead of Him. When He gives us money, we depend on the money - not Him. When He gives us people, we depend on people - not Him.

When He gives us status or power, we depend on, and become distracted by these things. When Allah gives us health, we become deceived. We think we will never die.

fotojournalismus: Police officers speak to anti-government protesters as they march towards the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain to protest against the life-sentence of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, in capital Manama, April 3, 2012. Khawaja is on a hunger strike for over 50 days now as a protest against his life sentence last year. [Credit : Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]

fotojournalismus:

Police officers speak to anti-government protesters as they march towards the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain to protest against the life-sentence of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, in capital Manama, April 3, 2012. Khawaja is on a hunger strike for over 50 days now as a protest against his life sentence last year.

[Credit : Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]

This is a beautiful story by Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee.

Several years ago, there was one African girl. This girl had a son who wished for a piece of doughnut because he was extremely hungry. Angry, frustrated, really upset about the state of her society and the state of her children, this young girl started a movement, a movement of ordinary women banding together to build peace. I will fulfill this wish. This is another African girl’s wish. I failed to fulfill the wish of those two girls. I failed to do this. These were the things that were going through the head of this other younger woman - I failed, I failed, I failed. So I will do this. Women came out, protested a brutal dictator, fearlessly spoke. Not only did the wish of a piece of doughnut come true, the wish of peace came true. This young woman wished also to go to school. She went to school. This young woman wished for other things to happen, it happened for her.

Today, this young woman is me, a Nobel laureate. I’m now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls - the wish of being educated. 

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