Friday 11 March 2011

May I exude only sweetness

Teach me to be like the ripe orange which,though crushed and bitten,fails not not to impart innate sweetness.
Battered by kindness,lashed by cruel criticism, or wounded by misunderstanding,may I unceasingly exude only the fragrance of love.
Like soap flakes which ,when beaten,give out cleansing suds,may I,hard-pounded by ingratitude,offer to all the purifying foam of my deepest wisdom.-Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda in "Whispers from Eternity"

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