Empty Cloud...

Fortunately, I Came across this pic in Nithya shaanti's facebook profile. Here is his greatness which many of us unaware of. There are many such great leaders who do their work without taking credit and move on...

Master Xu Yun (or Hsu Yun - Empty Cloud)) was one of the greatest masters of China. He would travel with a spade and stool. Every time he became famous, he would change his name to remain anonymous. He lived to a hundred and twenty years and rebuilt hundreds of temples all over the country. He was also famous for his ability to enter samadhi for seven days non-stop.

The will to win...

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and
your sleep for it

If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
and cheap for it

If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,

If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,

If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,

If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!
  
Author : Berton Braley