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LET LETTER LET TER FR FROM FR OM GABRIEL GABRIEL GAR GARCIA GAR CIA MAR MARQUEZ MAR UEZ WHEN WHEN HE HE RETIRED RETIRED FR FR FROM FR FR OM PUBLIC PUBLIC LIFE LIFE LIFE DUE DUE TO CANCER CANCER If for an instant God were to forget that I am rag doll and gifted me with a piece of life, possibly I wouldn't say all that I think, but rather I would think of all that I say. I would value things, not for their worth but for what they mean. I would sleep little, dream more, understanding that for each minute we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light. I would walk when others hold back, I would wake when others sleep. I would listen when others talk, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream! If God were to give me a piece of life, I would dress simply, throw myself face first into the sun, baring not only my body but also my soul. My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. Over the stars I would paint with a Van Gogh dream, a Benedetti poem, and a Serrat song would be the serenade I'd offer to the moon. With my tears I would water roses, to feel the pain of their thorns, and the red kiss of their petals... My God, if I had a piece of life... I wouldn't let a single day pass without telling the people I love that I love them. I would convince each woman and each man that they are my favorites, and I would live in love with love. I would show men how very wrong they are to think that they cease to be in love when they grow old, not knowing that they grow old when they cease to be in love! To a child I shall DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT NECTAR AR 292 give wings, but I shall let him learn to fly on his own. I would teach the old that death does not come with old age, but with forgetting. I have learned that everyone wants to live on the peak of the mountain, without knowing that real happiness is in how it is scaled. I have learned that when a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever. I have learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he has to help the other get to his feet. I have learned so many things, but in truth they won't be of much use, for when I keep them within this suitcase, unhappily shall I be dying. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT NECTAR AR 293
PARADO PARADOX PARADO X OF OF OUR OUR TIMES TIMES The paradox of our time in history is that: we have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life, we’ve added years to life not life to years. DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT NECTAR AR 294 We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things. We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but we communicateless and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; big men and small character; steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom. DROPS DROPS OF OF OF NECT NECTAR NECT NECTAR AR 295
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Drops of Nectar Fourth Edition A Co
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Swami Chidanand Saraswati,2004, Dro
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Pieces Sent by Others Give, by Kahl
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Thus, in these pages you will find
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INTRODUCTION I have been blessed be
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face, I knew that what He was going
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - ITS MEANING, I
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and that our ears can process the s
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We must look deeper than treaties,
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consumption are raised distinctly d
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those hormones (which are the same
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a great risk of developing infectio
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in the middle of the room, closing
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of everything unto Me, you will be
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attaining God realization. As an an
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Yes, of course, souls can come back
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However, it is crucial to pause and
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take fruit, nuts and milk without l
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with sumptuous, cooked meals prepar
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not, similarly these moral and ethi
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principles and laws. Remember what
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There was once a huge elephant cros
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So, then, the root to success in li
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found not in the acquisition, but r
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poverty to you. But, if you look a
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in a boat to cross the water and sp
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is what is needed. There is a beaut
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MEIN TO KAB SE TERI SHARAN MEIN HUN
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should be a minute to minute, momen
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says, “Bhagwad Gita Kinchidadhita
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KUMBHA MELA - FESTIVAL OF THE NECTA
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than Jayant and they pursued him re
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mother, this means treating her wit
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However, it must be remembered that
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However, the library is silent. It
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His work is flowing through you, wh
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What do I want out of life? What is
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e to carry a gun to protect himself
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They are the chains of our attachme
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Corporal punish
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understand. Instead, she would simp
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There is a story that goes as follo
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Gujaratis marrying Gujaratis, Punja
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We have seen that everyone wants to
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do our sadhana, perform our duties
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THE DANGER OF ANGER There was once
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So many times in life we read spiri
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pathy and charity make us feel like
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longer coursing with high volumes o
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