Today's reflection
Today's reflection
Read slowly, notice the line that feels useful, and let it guide one small action today.
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Today's reflection
It is our thoughtfulness for everyone that brings us an outstanding blessing that makes us become extremely intelligent in doing business as well as everything in life. If we become spiritual cultivators, we will also be incredibly profound. In this way, the cause of stopping shallow moral thoughts helps us become thoughtful and talented in life and in spiritual practice.
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Today's reflection
Read slowly, notice the line that feels useful, and let it guide one small action today.
Janna Quotes
Janna Quotes: thoughtful quotes for reflection and daily practice.

It is our thoughtfulness for everyone that brings us an outstanding blessing that makes us become extremely intelligent in doing business as well as everything in life. If we become spiritual cultivators, we will also be incredibly profound. In this way, the cause of stopping shallow moral thoughts helps us become thoughtful and talented in life and in spiritual practice.

You are thoughtful if you ask him about his disease, the doctor he has come to, the medication he is taking and its side effects and how to resolve them. If you just give him some money for medicine and do nothing more, you have very shallow moral thoughts, and the karmic result should be that later you will be successful at some times but can't have big successes. The reason that you are not much blessed is that you have shallow moral thoughts about helping others.

Those who admire, respect, and learn from better people and have mercy, responsibility toward worse people have their blessing increased forever. And when their blessing is huge, the gap between them and people below them gets increasing. This is an inevitable consequence and also a challenge to humans' morality.

If you choose a shortcut to become rich by working harder, you will hardly have success. But if you choose a detour by spending some of your time doing charity, making offerings, building roads and bridges, then after five years or ten, you will have good luck.

Countries that teach meditation early in school will have many accomplishments in various fields. A tranquil mind helps people become more intelligent, more moral, more civilized and happier.

If we live for ourselves without caring about and for others, we will cause them a nightmare. We should only keep our privacy very little and take responsibility for people around us; it's at that time that we can play the best song.

An ideal leader is the one who eliminates his personal expectations and preferences, only devotes his whole heart and mind to his people and embraces justice in life.

Compassion is an essential attribute of morality. We should step back to ask ourselves: " Have we got sufficient compassion to live this life?" If not, we ought to try our best to develop compassion. If just a little, we should cultivate it so that it grows much greater. This world is full of misery and sorrow and it is forever in need of compassion from humans.

A diligent person is the one who has a strong will to conquer his instinctive laziness. Besides, being constantly diligent brings joy, as long as we do not exhaust ourselves. Diligent people have an advantage over others. Being diligent, one has a strong will to study for betterment. Being diligent, one finds it natural to dedicate oneself to serve others, and thus, one's blessing increases. Being diligent, one is interested in studying new and helpful things, so one can invent something very new for life. People call it creativity.

If we choose to ignore and offer no help, a wide range of bad consequences will unexpectedly come afterwards. For example, we become less intelligent, our mind turns weaker, eyes get ill, and our plans in life always have troubles. Therefore, we should seize any opportunities to do good deeds, even the smallest ones. That way, we are increasing our blessing gradually, and thus, courage will be built into our personality. In the end, the lack of courage is a defect in morality.

We are afraid that our Earth only focuses on technological advancements and ignores morality, and no one knows what the consequences will be. The more technology progresses, the more humans need to reach a very high level of ethics. That is the urge of human conscience. Anyone anxious about the future of humanity must be aware of this problem.

Smart people will always seek ways, jobs, and chances to contribute more than to simply indulge. Our contribution must surpass our enjoyment. That surplus will be the blessing to keep our life in peace and happiness.
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