“In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.”
~ Ovid
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Hope you are having a good time. 
“Karmanye Vadhikaraste, Ma phaleshou kada chana – You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of actions.”
~ BHAGAVAD GITA
Even when the times are tough, keep the spirit of living alive. You will come out shining!
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”
~ Dalai Lama
Good day to you.
P.S. I guess by now you must have figured out what is in the picture, haven’t you? 
I took this photo (including the header pic) when I was back at home in Himalayas.
It was so much fun writing this post, really. And giving it a special meaning made me even more joyful. Also, the editing (inverting colors and B&W) was fun too. 
Hope you enjoyed it too!
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
~ Mother Teresa
Just for fun!
I’m loving March, are you?
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~ Charles Dickens
I’m in love with the Golden color! I’m seeing it everywhere- in my laptop, around me, in the morning, in the evening, in people, ….. Hehehe. And if you have not noticed, I have changed my blog links to a golden shade (Twenty Eleven does that too!), and the main header is in a similar shade as well.
Here is more gold along with golden quotations.
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“Pure gold does not fear furnace”
~ Chinese Proverbs
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth,
but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Stories are like fairy gold, the more you give away, the more you have.”
Have a day with golden moments!
More “goldens” at Life Just is -
Golden Reflection Framed by Himalayan Pines
Golden Temple – Harmandir Sahib
Golden Touches at the End of a Rainy Day
Going Golden :)
Golden-Blue Sunrise behind Coconut Trees
Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab (India)
“As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?”
~ Guru Nanak Dev Ji
Date of Photography: February 15, 2009
It was a beautiful, beautiful day! I still am glad that I got that opportunity to visit this place. That was the first and the only time I visited it. I hope to do it again someday. The feeling there is something inexplicable.
This photo was clicked using a 2MP mobile camera. Just felt like sharing it today.
The title of the post has been inspired from a novel. I have included a small passage from the novel to signify the title and the innocence hidden in it. Childhood was full of excitements, and I believe, we should maintain that now as well, right? I mean, why not? Do you like to be old and dull?
(For those who have never heard of this book: Heidi is story of a small girl’s power for good and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the Alps mountains.) Anyways, here’s the little extract I wanted to share -
Heidi was again sitting on the ground, silently gazing at the blue bell-shaped flowers, as they glistened in the evening sun, for a golden light lay on the grass and flowers, and the rocks above were beginning to shine and glow. All at once she sprang to her feet, “Peter! Peter! everything is on fire! All the rocks are burning, and the great snow mountain and the sky! Oh, look, look! the high rock up there is red with flames! Stand up, Peter! See, the fire has reached the great bird’s nest, look at the rocks! look at the fir trees! everything is on fire!”
“It is always like that,” said Peter composedly, continuing to peel his stick; “but it is not fire.”
“What is it then?” cried Heidi, as she ran backwards and forwards to look first at one side and then at the other, for she felt she could not have enough of such a beautiful sight.
“It gets like that of itself, and it happens everyday,” explained Peter.Heidi was not satisfied with this one-line explanation but she was excited about the fact that it happens everyday. So later that day, she gave an account of the whole day to her grandfather and particularly described the fire that had burst out everywhere in the evening.
The grandfather explained to her that it was the sun that did it. “When it says goodnight to the mountains he throws his most beautiful colors over them, so that they may not forget him before he comes again the next day.“Heidi was delighted with this explanation, and could hardly bear to wait for another day to come that she might once more climb up with the goats and see how the sun bade goodnight to the mountains.
[Reference - "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri
(One of my favorite childhood fictions)]
The Heidi story is about the life in the Alps, but my picture shows Himalayas. Lots of difference I know, but beauty is the same!
Yesterday, I wrote a little about Gandhiji in my post “Bapu for me“. Well, not just “about” him, but mostly on my thoughts about him and his philosophy and teachings. I wanted to share some of his quotes too in that post but couldn’t for some reasons. So thinking of doing it today.
Some of my favorite quotes of Mahatma Gandhi-
“I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away.”
- One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.
Learn and apply. Love and live. 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.
- Nelson Mandela.
Give it a thought. I most certainly need to.
Good Day everyone!
I came across this article (which is actually a letter) today on Facebook via a friend (J.J.) of mine. I found it really touching. Such lovely words. It really is worth sharing.
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There’s a lot to be said about the cricket tournament, especially our match against India. And it has a lot more to do with Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Gul’s bad luck, and Sachin Tendulkar’s good fortune.
Cricket speaks to our nation in a way our government never has.
And Shahid Afridi addressed the nation in a way our president never has – unselfish, genuine, modest. So when Afridi apologized to Pakistan, millions listened and were humbled by the gesture. Our eyes filled with tears and our hearts with love and strange kind of sorrow. Shahid Afridi, you need not apologize to the nation. We are proud of you and our entire cricket team! You didn’t bring back the cup, but any excitement, any happiness, any hope that Pakistanis have felt in the past few months is because of your brilliance. We’ve been hearing a lot of “Pakistan needs something to celebrate,” but Continue reading
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.” {Gautam Buddha}
“Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship that is bound to break into pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.” {M K Gandhi}
“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” {Charles Darwin}
“One gradually attains tranquility of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.” {Bhagavad Gita 6:25}
The month of colorful March is over. And here comes April. Have nice time everyone. May you all achieve what you want to. And may God grant you peace and love.
