Deciding for others

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
                                                                                                                     - Paulo Coelho, the Alchemist

The Prayer of St.Francis of Assisi

This used to be one of the favorite prayers of my granddad:

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is i giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life

It has been a long time since I wrote on this blog. I am now going to write on topics of spirituality as I see it; not just on Sri-la-Sri Pandrimalai Swamigal, who is the Inspiration for this blog.