Mystical mind

  Good and bad are like two sides of the one and the same coin. We have the good and the bad in us. None of us are perfect. We cannot separate it either. Goodness becomes visible only because of the bad in stark contrast to it. Have we not witnessed people who are smiling […]...

  Desert Journeys in today’s parlance would mean something adventurous for holidaymakers making a trip to the desert. Fun, bold and exciting. But here, the reference is to the dry spells in our lives. The feel of walking and trudging through the heavy sand dunes. When life does not play fair, when we suffer a [&hellip...

  There is this Small, Soft Voice (apart from other voices) inside all of us that whispers all day long, guiding us, giving us directions, choosing between right and wrong. No one else has a say in the conversation between the Voice and us. It is completely private. But do we ever heed to this […]...

  It is absolutely our responsibility to see that we keep fit in body, mind and soul. Good Food for the body, good thoughts enriched with Wisdom and Knowledge for the mind and Prayer or Meditation for the soul. There needs to be a fine–tuning or balance between all three: only then there will there […]...

  To Love and To Forgive: the sure bet to be Happy. Loving is a pleasure but forgiving someone is really a difficult task. It is a tug-of-war in the mind for anyone. A hundred-fold questions arise in our minds  as  we struggle to quell the Rising Ego within. Why do we need to forgive? […]...

  “Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.” – Tony Robbins So what is fulfillment of a Life? It is that Higher Unique Purpose within us that we follow with our soul: our happiness in the long run depends entirely on its fulfillment. Each of us have a contribution to this world that only we can […]...

  “I complained that I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet’.–Arabic Proverb” Does this not remind us of ourselves? We keep craving for more and more, in spite of all that we own and possess. Everything that we run after, loses its gloss of novelty after a while and […]...

  Now that the season of Lent is over and Easter is upon us, we have to try and analyse the good that has come out of this period of self–denial and sacrifice. The end of a phase and the beginning of another. Are we going to truly make it momentous as a beginning or […]...

  We all know that a reliable person is someone you can trust completely. Either to work hard, to do sincerely what you expect them to do and to behave with sense and caution. If you claim yourself to be a reliable person, just check out if you are at ease with all these qualities […]...

  As I penned the title, all I could think of was the golden hymn of yesteryear’s: When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done…. Count our blessings…T...

  We are so busy chasing our own dreams, trying to fulfill all our wishes. If nothing, trying to make a fast buck that we think is the source of all Happiness. Or we are again busy falling in love and falling out of it only to fall in again. The fact is that we […]...

  Our ruminating thoughts could be so pleasant and peaceful to be with, that we need no other companion. The flip side is that they could be so disturbing that we need a crowd or other noise to down the ones in our head. When we do not like the circumstances around us, we want […]...

  There is nothing in this world that can trouble us like our own thoughts. We hate being alone even for a minute because of the myriad inter-connected, sharp-shooting thoughts running in our heads, wreaking havoc. These can create Heaven or Hell for us, depending on the perspective with which we view things. A mature [&hel...

  Anyone who has experienced severe physical pain, as well as deep emotional sorrow, understands what betrayal is all about. Nothing hurts quite as deep as the pain of betrayal. Whether it is the betrayal of a spouse, friend, sibling or child, people at work, people outside, where ever, whoever it be: nothing hurts quite [&...

  “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” F. Scott Fitzgerald It’s important to make someone happy, and it’s important to start with yourself. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is […]...

  ‘Survival of the fittest’ and ‘ Just surviving’ are all phrases that catch up a place in our daily life conversations. To survive, we need the basic necessities of Life. But when we are faced with the worst trials of Life, its a different set of rules altogether. Sometimes we will have to survive [...

  For all those who really want to help around in making the world a better place to live in, it is high time that the wake-up call is given. Slumber is not a state of deep sleep: it can be a doze or just a shuteye light sleep. We need every bit of help. […]...

  God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world.     Tom Corr Whether it be physical or mental agony that we are going through, ‘Pain’ in itself is an attention seeker and demands our complete concentration on its alleviation. Every […]...

  Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. –  Shannon L. Alder If we were to keep track of the things that hurt us in a day, there would be no end to it. There is always someone to hurt us at the other end, and we who […]...

. Being thankful isn’t just for the Thanksgiving holiday. We have so many things to be thankful for, that the Time span given to us may not quite suffice to finish thanking. Of all the life-changing attitudes that we may practice, the attitude of gratitude is the most important one that we need to consciously […]...

  Experience is the mother of wisdom. Whatever the lineage, whatever the position, each of us go through different experiences. Taken apart, they are not the same as we learn from textbooks or from our teachers. But they are invaluable. We all have a story to tell about our own lives. And that story is […]...

  The way people treat you is a statement about who they are. It is not a statement about you. How people treat you, is their KARMA: how you react, is YOURS.  So the best reaction is to stay silent and give back No Response. Stop an ugly war of words by being selective in your […]...

  We need to nurture a positive attitude and willfully train ourselves to remain vibrantly positive, even in the most trying of times. It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. We fly back to hope and enjoyment, in spite of any obstructing cause in our lives, no matter what, comes […]...

  Meditation or prayer  brings calmness to our whole being. Proven beyond doubt. This calmness  brings with it so many positive emotions that it is worth striving for it in all circumstances. For thousands of years, writers, poets, philosophers and theologians have been lecturing on different methods or techniques for si...

  When we feel scared to face up to any challenges that come our way, we tend to stop taking chances. Taking chances involves risks. Without taking those risks, we cannot solve any problem that we face or achieve what we need to, in Life. Risk-taking is dependent on the Attitude and Perspective of the […]...

  Finding fault and being critical are some of the easiest things that seem to come naturally to us. Why do we stand in judgement of others? Is it because we want to be one-up on them or want to feel better about ourselves? We also get critical when others fail to do what we […]...

  Our daily lives have become a Run Run Rat Race. We cannot seem to keep pace with the competition surging forth. The world is spinning too fast for our liking. We need to rush too, otherwise we will be lost in the crowd. So where do we have have the time to stand still […]...

  This Wonderful Moment Is Mine: It is Your’s, Our’s,Their’s, Everyone’s.  Something which is in our possession, yet not with us. It keeps slipping by, waiting for no one. Time and Tide waits for no man. There is no point regretting all that Time wasted. Spring up. Seize this moment.  ‘Carpe ...

  Why do we always look at others and lament about the lack of anything and everything in our Lives? We keep comparing notes and then end up being totally dissatisfied with ourselves.We are envious and jealous of all that the others possess. Especially if it has something to do with a power-ridden life that […]...

  There are teachers of all sorts and of all subjects. But finding a good teacher who will bring out the best in us is like finding a rare gem. Such a one challenges our mind, our intellect, and our spirit. They throw back to us all the curious questions we ask them from time […]...

  Be Happy. This is the shortest and the most important sentence in each of our lives. We need to be happy. Come what may. Life is not to be frittered away in moaning, groaning and worrying. There is much more value to life than running after things that only bring us unhappiness and misery. […]...

  Ego– just a small three-letter word but we all know the impact that it has on our lives. In moderate amounts, it can do wonders to boost up our self esteem but left to itself, it can flare up to kill all relationships around it at one go. When we say that someone has […]...

  So much of research has gone and is still going on in the study of pain and its impact on the brain of each person. Results which are mind-boggling have been discovered. Painkillers have been found to alleviate physical pain, but no medicine has been  found to do away with pain completely, be it […]...

  Self-acceptance is something which is not fine with many of us. Not in the true sense of the word. As a child we are happy being who we are. We do not compare ourselves with others . We are content the way we are. But when we grow up and start note-comparing, then dissatisfaction […]...

  With the advent of the social media, access to any information is at our fingertips. The world has shrunk and can be fitted into our living spaces. It is the same with inspiring thoughts, motivating words and daily doses of wisdom. But are these bringing about any changes in our behavior? Are these making […]...

  When we look around us and see so much of amazing, mesmerizing natural beauty in every nook and corner, our spirit soars high. We are in ecstasy. We feel wonderful. Then we realize that we feel beautiful because we came from Beauty. So we must be the same as what we came from. All […]...

  The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. – Rumi Our mind plays havoc with all the thoughts running haywire. We need to hold inner images of ourselves with no limitations. If we think of ourselves as limited, unworthy, weak or sickly then we tend to act upon these thoughts. […]...

  Our passionate topics of conversation usually are the  everyday spiraling prices, exorbitant price tags, heavy purchases and all about money. We get our brains filled with such burdensome thoughts. The reason, we say, is because of our worry about our bleak finances. But think about the stress we face ourselves. Life cou...

  Love is not merely what we feel, but what we do for others. If we were to profess Love in us but yet have no heart to help anyone in need, then of what use would that Love be? Each time someone spits hate, spews venom and unleashes violence, understand it to be a […]...

  Businesses are competing tough with one another. The need to thrive amidst such cut-throat competition often drives them to take shortcuts as the way to take their counterparts by storm. Shortcuts to anything have never been the mantra for success. Shortcuts, as the name itself suggests, ‘cuts the success story shor...

  We spend more than half our lives waiting – waiting for others. For them to appreciate, encourage, motivate us and also expect others to make life comfortable for us. Not everyone can be with us all the time. We spend the whole of our life with ourselves. So isn’t it better that we learn […]...

  Are you going through one of the worst periods in your life? Feeling broken, lonely, desperate, frustrated, unloved – in fact, every negative emotion going through your head? If there have been a series of such storms in your life, leaving you feeling devastated, then sit down for a moment…take a deep breath a...

  In a world that is faking emotions and relationships, it is very hard to find a sincere person around. ‘Being genuine’ has lost its sheen. Even when someone compliments or praises us,  we are left wondering whether the person really meant what he/she said. It is a ‘pseudo culture ‘ that has caught...

    We often try to classify Time in our lives as that of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Some days are good, some days are bad, we say. But the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ are so intricately woven even within the time frame of a day. Moments in the same day seem to be full […]...

  Life holds a lot of tough situations as we move through it. It is like the weather that unpredictably gets harsher and tougher. All we can do is to brace ourselves and meet the situation with as much ease as possible. Our lives are also full of ‘rough and tough’ surprises like these. We […]...

  If we were to get all that we wished for, in life, just bang on, what would the fun be? Would it not be boring? Life remains exciting because it remains unsolved and a mystery. Things that remain out of reach and unattainable attract us more than what we get without raising a finger. […]...

  Most of the ostentatious living that we opt for  is not for ourselves. It is either to get a firm social standing, to be accepted socially or to be accepted among peers or family. Left to ourselves we would not want half the things that we buy with our hard-earned money. When the gloss […]...

  There is no one perfect here on earth. All of us have flaws and we do make mistakes. That is what makes us so human .’To Err is Human’. But to go on erring and not learning from it, is unpardonable. Every time we make mistakes we should take stock of the situation and […]...

  Once our prime needs of food, clothing and shelter are met with, then our natural instincts are to find some source of happiness or Peace. A normal day in any man’s life has its own worries, but what if these worries start gnawing at him and he loses his cool altogether? There are no […]...

  Many of us face run-down conditions much too often in Life. Whatever we take up does not seem to go on fine either on the career front , on the personal side. or most probably on the financial side. The roadblocks that we face take us into a spin of desperation. There does not […]...