Are you a beggar?

An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he met a beggar. He asked the beggar, "What do you want?"The beggar laughed and said, "You are asking me as though you can fulfill my desire!"

The king was offended. He said, "Of course I can fulfill your desire. What is it? Just tell me."

And the beggar said, "Think twice before you promise anything."

The beggar was no ordinary beggar, he was the emperors past life master. He had promised in that life, "I will come and try to wake you in your next life. This life you have missed but I will come again." But the king had forgotten completely -- who remembers past lives? So he insisted, "I will fulfill anything you ask. I am a very powerful emperor, what can you possibly desire that I can not give to you?"

The beggar said, "It is a very simple desire. You see this begging bowl? Can you fill it with something?"

The emperor said, "Of course!" He called one of his viziers and told him, "Fill this mans begging bowl with money." The vizier went and got some money and poured it into the bowl, and it disappeared. And he poured more and more, and the moment he would pour it, it would disappear. And the beggging bowl remained always empty.

The whole palace gathered. By and by the rumor went throughout the whole capital, and a huge crowd gathered. The prestige of the emperor was at stake.

He said to his viziers, "If the whole kingdom is lost, I am ready to lose it, but I cannot be defeated by this beggar."

Diamonds and pearls and emeralds, his treasuries were becoming empty.The begging bowl seemed to be bottomless. Everything that was put into it --everything! --immediately disappeared, went out of existence. Finally it was the evening, and the people were standing there in utter silence. The king dropped at the feet of the beggar and admitted his defeat. he said, "Just tell me one thing. You are victorious - but before you leave, just fulfill my curiousity. What is the begging bowl made of?"

The beggar laughed and said, "It is made up of the human mind. There is no secret. It is simple made up of human desire."

This understanding transforms life. Go into one desire -- what is the mechanism of it? First there is a great excitement, great thrill, adventure. you feel a great kick. Something is going to happen, you are on the verge of it. And then you have the car, you have the yacht, you have the house, you have the woman, and suddenly all is meaningless again.

What happens? Your mind has dematerialized it. The car is standing in the drive, but there is no excitement anymore. The excitement was only in getting it. You became so drunk with the desire that you forgot your inner nothingness. Now the desire is fulfilled, the car in the drive, the woman in your bed, the money in your bank account - again excitement disappears. Again the emptiness is there, ready to eat you up. Again you have to create another desire to escape this yawning abyss.

That's how one moves from one desire to another desire. That's how one remains a beggar. Your whole life proves it again and again -- every desire frustrates. And when the goal is achieved, you will need another desire. The day you understand that desire as such is going to fail comes the turning point in your life. The other journey is inwards. move inwards, come back home.  

It’s so funny why we don’t talk anymore

Used to think that life was sweet
Used to think we were so complete
I can’t believe you’d throw it away
Used to feel we had it made
Used to feel we could sail away
Can you imagine how I feel today?

Well, it seems a long time ago
You were the lonely one
Now it comes to letting go
You are the only one
Do you know what you’ve done?

It’s so funny how we don’t talk anymore

But it ain’t losing sleep
And I ain’t counting sheep.
It’s so funny how we don’t talk anymore.
Oh, we don’t talk.

Well, it really doesn’t matter to me
I guess your leaving was meant to be
It’s down to you now you wanna be free

Well, I hope you know which way to go
You’re on your own again
Don’t come cryin’ to me
When you’re the lonely one
Remember what you’ve done.

It’s so funny how we don’t talk anymore
It’s so funny why we don’t talk anymore
But it ain’t losing sleep
And I ain’t counting sheep.
It’s so funny how we don’t talk anymore.
Oh, we don’t talk!

That old wheel will roll around again

 That old wheel is gonna roll around once more
When it does it will even up the score
Don’t be weak: as they sow, they will reap
Turn the other cheek and don’t give in
That old wheel will roll around again

When love is gone and the one you thought would stay
Does you wrong, and you’re left alone to pay
The price is high
But somehow you’ll survive, don’t give in
That old wheel will roll around again


There’ll be times, hard to control
 you’ll hurt down in your soul!
There’ll be those who’ll be glad to see you down
But don’t give in, that old wheel will roll around again,again and again

When will I be loved?

I've been cheated,
Been mistreated.
When will I be loved?

I’ve been put down,
I’ve been pushed 'round.
When will I be loved.

When I find a new girl,
That I want for mine.
She always breaks my heart in two,
It happens every time.

I’ve been made blue,
I’ve been lied to.
When will I be loved?


When I find a new girl,
That I want for mine.
She always breaks my heart in two,
It happens every time.

I’ve been cheated,
Been mistreated.
When will I be loved?

Tell me, when will I be loved?

Precious memories, how they linger

As I travel down life's pathway
Know not what the years may hold
As I ponder, hope grows fonder
Precious memories flood my soul

Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold

Precious father, loving mother
Glide across the lonely years
And old home's scenes of my childhood
In fond memories appears

Precious memories, how they linger
How they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight
Precious sacred scenes unfold 

This is where I ride away......

I knew the stakes were high right from the start

When she dealt the cards I dealt my heart

Now I just found a game that I can't play

And this is where I ride away

And my heart is sinking like the setting sun

Setting on the things I wish I'd done

It's time to say good bye to yesterday

This is where I  ride away

We've been in and out of love and in between

And now we play the final showdown scene

And as the credits role a sad song starts to play

This is where I ride away

And my heart is sinking like the setting sun

Setting on the things I wish I'd done

Oh the last good bye's the hardest one to say

This is where I ride away

Oh the last good bye's the hardest one to say

This is where I decided to ride away!

I hate everything

He was sitting there beside me
Throwin' doubles down when he ordered up his third one
He looked around, then he looked at me
And said I do believe I'll have one more

Said I hate this bar and I hate to drink
But on second thought, tonight I think I hate everything

Then he opened up his billfold and threw a 20 down
And a faded photograph fell out and hit the ground
And I picked it up he said, Thank ya bud
I put it in his hand

He said I probably oughta throw this one away
'Cause she's the reason I feel this way
I hate everything

I hate my job, and I hate my life
If it weren't for my two kids, I'd hate my ex-wife
I know I should move on and try to start again
But I just can't get over her leaving me for him
Then he shook his head and looked down at his ring
And said, I hate everything

He said, that one bedroom apartment where I get my mail
Is really not a home, it's more like a jail
With a swimming pool and a parking lot view
Man, it's just great

I hate summer, winter, fall, and spring
Red and yellow, purple, blue and green
I hate everything

I hate my job, and I hate my life
If it werent for my two kids, I'd hate my ex-wife
I know I should move on and try to start again
But I just can't get over her leaving me for him
Then he shook his head and looked down at his ring
And said, I hate everything

I’m just trying to find some balance in a world gone totally insane!

I turned forty-five some Wednesday(dont ask which year); 

my gray hair is getting thin(now I shave my head regularly)

But I’m still hanging in there; don't feel too bad for the shape I’m in.

I’m seen yuppies in the White House but I think they're gonna fail

as I just don't trust a President that never has inhaled!

I pray to God to stop his crime but it seems to no avail

Well, I still love country music, but I’ve been left out in the dark

'Cause they don't play Merle and George no more

I don't know Billy Ray from Garth

And I’ve heard of Woodstock two but it never could compete

'Cause I was there the day that Hendrix played the Anthem with his feet

Back when all those grunge bands couldn't even keep a beat

I’m an old hippie, even older than before

Wondering what to pay attention to and what should I ignore

I’m an old hippie, still adjusting to the change

I’m just trying to find some balance in a world gone totally insane

I still think back on the sixties but not in the same way

Cause they built a wall to my war then forgot the MLAs!

 I’m trying to be a nice man but it's too much of a bore

Cause fax machine and cell phones ain't what I was put here for

And in a world selling sex and youth I’m one of the last old dinosaurs

Yeah, I’m an old hippie, even older than before

Wondering what to pay attention to and what I should ignore

I’m an old hippie, still adjusting to the change

I’m just trying to find some balance in a world gone totally insane

Well, I come home from work now, take some time off with the kids

I try to teach them right from wrong, hope they don't learn it the way that I did

My eyes are on the future but it's looking pretty sad

With every day that passes I become more like my Dad!

just hope that when this decade turns around, things won't be so bad

Yes I’m an old hippie, even older than before

Wondering what to pay attention to and what  I should ignore

I’m an old hippie, still adjusting to the change

I’m just trying to find some balance in a world gone totally insane!

Old hippie

He turned thirty-five last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
He gets out there in the twilight zone
sometimes when it just don't make no sense
He gets off on country music
cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
buts he's just too freakin old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock
and the day John Lennon died
how the music made him happy
and the silence made him cry
Yea he thinks of John Lennon sometimes
and he has to wonder why
Cause he's an old hippie
and he don't know what to do
should he hang on to the old
should he grab on to the new
he's an old hippie
his new life is just a bust
he ain't trying to change nobody
he's just trying real hard to adjust
He was sure back in the sixties
that everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam
on his senior trip
And they forced him to become a man
while he was still a boy
and behind each wave of tragedy
he waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
but he just can't change no more
Well he stays away a lot now
from the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species
will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo
just up and fade away..................

dedicated to all the educated & confused people in the world

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well theyd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say or theyll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Wont you sign up your name, wed like to feel youre
Acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!

At night, when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am !

A Couple More Years

A Couple More Years

I've got a couple more years
On you baby, that's all
I've had more chances to fly
More places to fall.

Ain't that I'm wiser it's only that I've spent
More time with my back to the wall
And I've picked up a couple more years
On you baby, that's all.

I've walked a couple more roads
Than you baby, that's all
And I'm tired of running while
You're only learning to crawl.

And you're goin' somewhere but I've been to somewhere
And found it was nowhere at all
And I've picked up a couple more years
On you baby, that's all.

Now saying goodbye girl
Don't ever come easy at all
But you've got to fly
'Cause you're hearing those young eagles call.

Someday when you're older
You'll smile at someone younger and eager to fall
You'll say I got a couple more years
On you baby, that's all.

And you'll say I got a couple more years
On you baby, that's all.
You'll say honey I've picked up
A couple more years on you baby, that's all...

From dust were ye made and dust ye shall be!

Who will love a little Sparrow?
Who's traveled far and cries for rest?
"Not I," said the Oak Tree,
"I won't share my branches with no sparrow's nest,
And my blanket of leaves won't warm her cold breast."

Who will love a little Sparrow
And who will speak a kindly word?
"Not I," said the swan,
"The entire idea is utterly absurd,
I'd be laughed at and scorned if the other Swans heard."

Who will take pity in his heart,
And who will feed a starving sparrow?
"Not I," said the Golden Wheat,
"I would if I could but I cannot, I know,
I need all my grain to prosper and grow."

Who will love a little Sparrow?
Will no one write her eulogy?
"I will," said the Earth,
"For all I've created returns unto me,
From dust were ye made and dust ye shall be."

I've spent a lifetime looking for you
Single bars and good time lovers, never true
Playing a fools game, hoping to win
Telling those sweet lies and losing again.

I was looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
Another heart, lookin' for love

I was alone then, no love in sight
And I did everything I could to get me through the night
Don't know where it started or where it might end
I turn to a stranger, just like a friend

I was looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
Another heart, lookin' for love
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Now that I found a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
You, oh you, lookin' for love

In all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Now that I have not found a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
You, oh you, still lookin' for love...........

take a step forward..dont turn back....

Honey, don't go right now

Now that you've come this far

Honey, you don't know how

Close you really are

There's nothing you can't do

It's up to you to let it go

Put the past behind

Out of sight and out of mind

Honey, you're never gonna see

Behind the untried door

You know it doesn't have to be

The way it was before

You're not the only one who found too soon

The more you care

The more you stand to lose

I've been inside your shoes

So Honey, don't go right now

I know you just take anything on trust

Why don't you open up and show the way you feel?

What's there to hide?

What is it that's inside of you

That you seem so unwilling to reveal?

So let's just take it slow

It's not as though

I'm asking for your secrets or your soul

You need a hand to hold

So Honey, don't go right now

Honey, don't go right now !

This is the power of love.

When you can't sleep nights and you wonder why,
Without a friend and you wanna die.
Situation desperation, all you want is sympathy,
And sympathy is all you'll get,
Enough!!!!! - you ain't found nothing yet,
Till you found the power of love.

Your beauty ain't so hard to see,
Your looks can make a fool of me,
You say the things I want to hear,
And tell me it won't disappear,
But I won't know until I find if there is any truth behind,
What you call the power of love.

It takes you, it makes you and sometimes it breaks you,
It fills you and thrills you and sometimes it kills you,
But I've been looking so hard to find it,
I ain't giving it any more time,
There's nothing you can do about this,
You will never live without it,
This is the power of love.................. 

It's Your Life

Who said the web of life is woven in a dream,
'Cause your life is filled with dreams you can't believe.
So the only way you live with it is acting every scene,
And you play the part so well, but who deceived
Now and again I find you ain't got a friend
Who knows, I come and I go, but it's your life...

Though the world is overcrowded you still found an empty place,
And I know he leaves you helpless and confused.
And your search for love has often left you staring into space
Just another broken heart, so what's the use?
How many times have I been so hard to find?
You know I come and I go, but it's your life...

How does it feel when he's not around?
Can he be real when he can be found nowhere?

Who lit the flame upon the candle tonight?
And who let herself be lit so easily?
And who let it burn until the early morning light
And in the early morning gave herself to some one?
And so,  you know that it's your life... 

she'll fake it for a few dollars more

Rich girl she buys her dreams.
It's a rich world behind the scenes.
The more she takes the harder they fall
She ain't easy and she ain't tough
She's had it good, but then she's had it rough
And I guess it don't come to much
With all she's got she ain't got enough

So she'll cry just a little for a few dollars more
She'll lie just a little like she's done it before
She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more
She'll show you her heart, then show you the door

You know she'll die just a little for a few dollars more
Even fly just a little like she's done it before
She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more
She'll show you her heart, then show you the door

Strange things can happen to you
When you've got so much and you've got nothing to do
Oh oh oh what do you know
How do you get there when there's nowhere to go

And so you wonder just what she'll do
She's never known love but then she's never known you
And it's too bad those sad  eyes
Are so full of questions and so full of lies

And she'll cry just a little for a few dollars more
She'll lie just a little like she's done it before
She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more
She'll show you her heart, then show you the door

You know she'll die just a little for a few dollars more
Even fly just a little like she's done it before
She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more
She'll show you her heart, then show you the door

And she'll cry just a little for a few dollars more
She'll lie just a little like she's done it before
She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more
She'll show you her heart, then show you the door

You know she'll die just a little for a few dollars more
Even fly just a little like she's done it before
She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more
She'll show you her heart, then show you the door............

Don't Spend Too Much of Today on Yesterday

Don't Spend Too Much of Today on Yesterday

Too many people spend too much of their day Looking over their shoulder at what they did some other day

 It may have been good it may have been bad whichever way it's kinda sad

They can't learn to look some other way

Don't spend too much of today on yesterday

 Cos you can't change the past anyway

Just love to live and live life today

Don't spend too much of today on yesterday

There are so many things to do that haven't been done

There are so many ways to go

 That you don't have to run

So try on a few and see how they fit

 I think you'll find that they won’t hurt a bit

 Look at things you can do Instead of what you have done

If you feel life has done you wrong

 Just accept it and move on along

 Today is too short it won't last

 Live life now don't live in the past

Let's call it just friends And keep it that way!

There's no need to lie

Without me half trying, I could love you

It shows in your eyes

That you feel the same way I do

But wherever I go, my conscience goes

What more can I say

It's only desire, not yet a fire

Let's keep it that way

 'Cause I don't want to have to tell her a lie

When I get back home

'Cause it would tear apart her fairy tale world

If I did her wrong

And lying to her would hurt me more

Than leaving you this way

So before we forget, we're not cheaters yet

Let's keep it that way

Let's finish this wine

'Cause I'm not thinking too clearly tonight

And the touch of your hand

Makes it so hard for me to tell wrong from right

she waits at home and she's there alone

And though I'd like to stay

Before I give in

Let's call it just friends

And keep it that way

For Doers

For Doers

Young  people generally fall into three categories:

Those who Do More; those who Do Less; and those who Do Nothing.

Do more than exist: Live

Do more than look: Observe.

Do more than read: Absorb

Do more than hear: Listen.

Do more than listen: Understand.

Do more than think: Ponder.

Do more than talk: Say something.

Do more than desire: Do something about it.

THE SCOTSMAN

THE SCOTSMAN

Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair

And one could tell by how he walked that he drank more than his share

He fumbled around until he could no longer keep his feet

Then he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street

About that time two young and lovely girls just happened by

And one says to the other with a twinkle in her eye

See yon sleeping Scotsman so strong and handsome built

I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt

She crept up on that sleeping Scotsman as quiet as could be

And lifted up his kilt about an inch so they could see

And there behold unto their view beneath his Scottish skirt

Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth

They marveled for a moment than one said we must be gone

Let's leave a present for our friend before we move along

As a gift they left a blue silk ribbon tied into a bow

Around the bonny star the Scot’s kilt did lift and show

Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call and stumbled towards the trees

Behind the bush he lifts his kilt and gasps at what he sees

And in a startled voice he says to what's before his eyes

Och lad I don't know where you been but I see you won first prize!

Andy Williams - Love Story

Where do i begin
To tell the story
Of how greatful love can be
The sweet love story
That is older than the sea
That sings the truth about the love she brings to me
Where do i start

With the first hello
She gave the meaning
To this empty world of mine
That never be
Another love another time
She came into my life
And made a living fine
She fills my heart

She fills my heart
With very special things
With angel songs
With wild imaginings
She fills my soul
With soo much love
That anywhere i go
Im never lonely
With her along who could b lonely
I reach for her hand
Its always there

How long does it last
Can love be measured by the hours in a day
I have no answers no
But this much i can say
I know ill need her till the stars all fade away
And she'll be there...
 

Lets Fall To Pieces Together

Pardon me, you left your tears on the jukebox,
And I'm afraid they got mixed up with mine.
I don't mean to pry,
It's just that I noticed you going out of your mind.
Looks like we're two of a kind.
Let's fall to pieces together.
Why should we both fall apart?
Let's fall to pieces together
Right here in each other's arms.
Alone is much better together,
And the worst is still yet to come.
So let's share the rest of the tears
That are left from two hearts that just came undone.
Why should we go crazy alone?
Let's fall to pieces together
Right here in each other's arms. 

courtesy -George Strait