Just For Today

Just for today, I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime

Just for today I will be happy. " Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be".

Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and try not to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my luck as it comes and fit myself to it.

Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study.

I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways:

I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out; if anybody knows of it, it will not count. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticise not one bit, not find fault, not try to improve or regulate anyone except myself.

Just for today I will have a programme. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests:

                hurry and indecision

Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax.

During this half hour sometime, I will try to get a better perspective of my life.

Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will  give to me.

                                " I slept, I dreamt that life is pleasure

                                  I woke and saw that life is duty

                                  I worked and I noticed that duty is pleasure"

                                                                                                                                ( Nietzche )

The sage avoids:

                                EXTREMES

                                EXCESSES

                                COMPLACENCY

LAUGHTER

THE BEST THERAPY -    Medical Update

IFR MEDICAL DICTIONARY

ARTERY                                                The study of painting

BACTERIA                                           Back door of a cafeteria

BARIUM                                               What doctors do when patients die

BOWEL                                                 A letter like A E I O U

CAESAREAN SECTION                    A neighbourhood in Rome

CAT SCAN                                           Searching for kitty

CAUTERISE                                         Made eye contact with her

COMA                                                   A punctuation mark

D & C                                                     Where Washington is

DILATE                                 To live longer

ENEMA                                                 Not a friend

FESTER                                 Quicker

FIBULA                                                 A small lie

IMPOTENT                                           Distinguished ,well known

LABOUR PAIN                                    Getting hurt at work

MEDICAL STAFF                               Doctor's cane

NITRATES                                            Cheaper than day rates

NODE                                                     Was aware of

OUTPATIENT                                      A person who has fainted

PAP SMEAR                                        A fatherhood test

PELVIS                                                   A cousin of Elvis

RECOVERY ROOM                             A place to do upholstery

RECTUM                                               Dang near killed 'em

SECRETION                                          Hiding something

SEIZURE                                               Roman emperor

TABLET                                                A small table

TERMINAL ILLNESS                         Getting sick at the airport

TUMOUR                                              More than one

URINE                                                    Opposite of you' re out

VARICOSE                                            Nearby

VEIN                                                       Conceited

Amanda- North East School of Reflexology

Found on the wall in the nursery at Burrows Lea, the Harry Edwards

Healing Sanctuary

We Learned it all From Teacher

by Robert Fulghum

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do,

and how to be, was learnt at nursery school.

Wisdom was not at the top of the university mountain,

but there in the sand pit.

These are the things I learnt:

Share everything, play fair, don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them, clean up your mess,

Don't take things that are not yours,

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody,

Wash your hands before you eat, Live a balanced life

Learn a bit and think a bit, and draw and sing and dance and play and work everyday.

Take a nap in the afternoon.

When you go out into the world watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup,

The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the seed in the plastic cup;

they all die. So do we.

And then remember one of the finest words you learned to read, the biggest word of all "LOOK"

Think of what a better world it would be if we all had biscuits and milk about three o'clock every afternoon, and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.

Or if we had a basic policy to always put things back where we found them and cleared up our own messes.

                   And it is still true, no matter how old we are,

when you go out into the world,

                   It is best to hold hands and stick together                             

I'm Fine Thank You

There is nothing the matter with me, 

I'm as healthy as I can be. 

I have arthritis in both my knees 

And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze. 

Sleep is denied me night after night, 

But every morning I find I'm all right. 

My memory is failing, my heads in a spin, 

But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.

How do I know my youth is all spent? 

Well, my "get up and go" has got up and went. 

But I really don't mind when I think with a grin, 

Of all the grand places my "get up" has bin. 

"Old age is golden" I've heard it said, 

 But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed, 

With my ears in the drawer, my teeth in a cup,

 My eyes on the table until I wake up. 

"Ere sleep overtakes me,I say to myself, 

"Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf?" 

When I was young my slippers were red, 

I could kick my heels over my head. 

When I was older male slippers were blue, 

But I could still dance the whole night through.

 Now I am old my slippers are black,

I walk to the store and puff my way back.

I get up each morning and dust off my wits, 

And pick up the paper and read the "obits"           

  If my name is still missing I know I'm not dead, So I have a good breakfast - and face what's ahead!

SOLITUDE

O, this sound of silence

That falls upon my ear,

In this place of peacefulness

My soul speaks loud and clear.

Let this harmony prevail

That I may always see,

The clear, gold Light of dawning

Where shadows seem to be.

May the words now spoken

Down deep within my heart

Bring a vision full of Truth

And wisdom to impart.

And may the love I feel inside

As understanding grows

To heal all weary souls with warmth

And set their hearts aglow.

May I live a life that shows

A path for other feet

To learn to walk in harmony

And fill the World with Peace

                                    author unknown

Love

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer:

no disease that enough love will not heal;

no door that enough love will not open;

no gulf that enough love will not bridge;

no wall that enough love will not throw down;

no sin that enough love will not redeem...

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble,

how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle,

how great the mistake.

A sufficient realisation of love will dissolve it all...

If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and

most powerful being in the world...

Emmet Fox

Love and serve all humanity

Help everyone.

Be happy. Be courteous.

Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy.

Recognise God and goodness in every face.

There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future.

Praise everyone. If you cannot praise someone....

let him / her go out of your life.

Be original. Be inventive.

Be courageous. Take courage again and again.

Do not imitate. Be strong. Be upright.

Do not lean on the crutches of others.

Think with your own head. Be yourself.

All perfection and every divine virtue are hidden within you - reveal them to the world.

Wisdom, too, is already within you - let it shine forth.

Let the Lord's Grace make you free.

Let your life be that of a rose - in the silence, it speaks the language of fragrance.

                        SRI BABAJI

                        (February 1984)