The Man in the Arena

[SpiritWalker]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

[SpiritWalker]

Have a magical 4th of July my brothers & sisters.

[Ron Alexander]

WORD FOR THE DAY
Thursday, Jul. 9(gratefulness.org)

Those interested in tranquility of mind
should act
just for the sake of the action,
for the benefit of the universe,
not for one’s own benefit.
It is only when a personal
motive is present that we are
we subject to the dualities
and that we become perturbed.

Sri Swami Satchidananda