Saturday, 3 March 2012

We are what we think by Lao Tzu


         All that we are arises with our thoughts.

         With our thoughts we make the world.

         Speak or act with an impure mind

         And Trouble will follow you

         As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

        

         We are what we think.

         All that we are arises with our thoughts.

         With our thoughts we make the world.

         Speak or act with a pure mind

         and happiness will follow you

         As your shadow, unshakable.        

         "Look how he abused me and beat me,

         How he threw me down and robbed me."

         Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.    

         "Look how he abused me and beat me,

         How he threw me down and robbed me."

         Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.

 
         You do not see me out here.

         I am an image projected on the back of your own retina.

         You do not hear me outside of yourself.

        The sounds are simply vibrations on your own eardrum.

 

         This is the profound, simple truth:

         You are the master of your life and death.

         What you do is what you are. 
     
      (The most Inspiring Poems edited by Abhay K)

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