Let’s celebrate death as much as we celebrate life when someone is born, because life never ceases when we leave our body, says the writer I came across a quote by Stevens Wallace that said, “Death is the mother of...
The best way to deal with negative thoughts is to, first of all, make a commitment to practice compassion in your life, and make sure that the commitment includes you. Make a commitment to loving kindness, and make sure that...
The conventional model of education and employment reverses mindfulness. If we desire to move forward in our work, then mindfulness is the first step to change and the key to progress, says the writer The Oxford Dictionary defines self-awareness as...
These days we read a lot about conflict. Conflict is a kind of struggle between two individuals because of difference of opinion and ideas. There is a constant clash of opinion because both are obsessed with their own ideas and...
Depressed people and their families can together overcome the challenge and get back into the flow of life How will one describe a depressed person? Would you say that such people have lost their will to live and now shun...
It’s a great mistake to try to reduce stress and tension by avoiding challenges and difficulties. There are some people who never do anything, and they’re always relaxed. Such lives may be pleasant, but they don’t advance you spiritually. You...
When you receive a gift, you feel happy. But you are happy only for a while. Soon you look for more gifts and more sources of happiness. Thus, the happiness that comes from receiving is temporary―because it is the happiness...
Chanting aids in uplifting and expanding our consciousness, allowing us to be receptive to the flow of Divine love, joy, peace, wisdom and blessings. Thus, our life becomes a song itself and we become the instrument through which God plays...
The writer talks about working on your will power to strengthen your conscience Leo Tolstoy back in 1887 held that the only power capable of resisting the evil associated with materialism and the drive for social power of religious institutions,...
As a kid, I remember I had a small diary with a blue cover. I often wrote in that diary about things that I read or some event that made an impact on the way of my thinking. One such statement...
A spiritual perspective is capable of providing adequate support, thoughtful guidance and filling the grief-stricken people with new hope. When the bereaved persons probe their assumptions around life and death, falsehood and truth, and loneliness, there is a widening of...
We can either be butchers and cut up Earth’s resources mercilessly or protect it from further damage, so that it can heal itself There once lived a venerable sage at the ghats of the river Ganga. When he preached, crowds...
The author, an Ayurveda teacher pursued spirituality for several years, only to discover that real spirituality lay elsewhere The day you stop racing is the day you win the race – Bob Marley Sometimes, I feel suffocated by ‘spiritual’ and...
What use are Natural Laws to us? If everything is meant to be as is, then we are mere spectators and we don’t have to do anything but just live our own life. If our destiny is already written, are...
We seem to live on a mental diet of worries, tensions and anxiety. The writers teach us the benefits of calm, regular breathing and how this simple technique always relaxes the mind Years ago, when we were first starting our...
For some of the migrants, their bicycles have proved their saviour. They used it to cycle all the way home hundreds of kilometres away. The author recalls her own carefree cycling days back in the ‘70s in the context of...
Living consciously with Zen in your life is very much about living moment-to-moment in awareness and simply being true to your own nature. This way of Zen enriches your life and helps you discover your full potential: and as you...
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball – Frederic Ogden Nash, American writer and poet...
