It is a cast iron guarantee that if you don’t steer your life boat, someone else will. Similarly if you don’t think for yourself, someone else will, and that person will therefore decide what is good for you and what is not. No one in their right mind wants to surrender to someone else the…
The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism. – John Baines Embed from Getty Images Optimism, whilst not a talent or skill, is a personal attribute that can be cultivated to such an extent that it becomes a permanent characteristic in how one perceives daily life. Optimist is a person who has…
Here is an enlightening anecdote from ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’, a wonderful and highly uplifting book by Mitch Albom. Embed from Getty Images A little wave is bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He’s enjoying the wind and fresh air on a warm, sunny afternoon. Suddenly he notices the other waves in…
Life experiences have taught me that real freedom, a state of abandon or total release, is attained when I am aware of and understand my motives and actions to take full control of myself and accept responsibility for what happens inside and around me. When I am aware of what is happening, I am ‘living…
Embed from Getty Images Freedom is a word that resonates with everyone. But what does it mean? Ordinarily, and very simplistically, freedom is the right or power to make a choice, to speak, act, think and exercise free will without any kind of restriction or hindrance in a sovereign state that is not under a…
I have been greatly influenced by J. Krishnamurti who had a lot to say about all aspects of life and the significant role that our mind plays in building lives. His ethos on education which emphasised the real purpose of education as ‘not to prepare us for getting a job, but to help us understand…
Embed from Getty Images Though we are equipped with the capacity and talent to see totality, most of the time we are deluding ourselves that we have seen totality – we are lying to ourselves, we are kidding ourselves. We say we have seen the river. Have we really? The river starts at the source…
Embed from Getty Images At my present level of wisdom I would like to postulate that happiness and joy are not synonymous. Whilst both are emotions, they come from different sources. The most obvious difference between these emotions is that the source of one is concrete and tangible, whereas that of the other is impalpable….