Book Recommendation – Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child by Thich Nhat Hanh

July 31, 2014July 28, 2014 / onetusk / Leave a comment

An exciting contribution to the growing trend of applying Buddhist practices to encourage wellness and balance mental health. Reconciliation focuses on mindful awareness of our emotions and offers concrete practices to restore damaged relationships through meditations and exercises to help acknowledge and transform the hurt that many of us may have experienced as children. Reconciliation shows how anger, sadness, and fear can become joy and tranquility by learning to breathe with, explore, meditate, and speak about our strong emotions. Written for a wide audience and accessible to people of all backgrounds and spiritual traditions.

A Long-Awaited Treasure,

Brian Kimmel

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Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”

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Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Continue reading →

An instrument of peace

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Thought for the week – 28th July 2014

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What’s the line between Unconditional Love and Unconditional Acceptance?

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Best sermons are lived; not preached

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Ponder on these short stories that have changed lives

The following stories have wonderful shades of emotions. These are based on true incidents both wonderful and inspirational.

These stories will remove some wrong misconceptions that we have about the people and life in general.

1. Today, when I slipped on the wet tile floor a boy in a wheelchair caught me before I slammed my head on the ground. He said, “Believe it or not, that’s almost exactly how I injured my back 3 years ago.

2. Today, my father told me, “Just go for it and give it a try! You don’t have to be a professional to build a successful product. Amateurs started Google and Apple. Professionals built the Titanic.

3. Today, I asked my mentor – a very successful business man in his 70’s – what his top 3 tips are for success. He smiled and said, “Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing. Continue reading →

life remembers . . . and tries to remind us

July 24, 2014July 21, 2014 / onetusk / Leave a comment

In fact, the transitions that punctuate many people’s careers after the age of forty or forty-five are the unmarked ruins of this natural time of transition. Whether such transitions take the form of a time when everything “goes dead,” a time when things keep going wrong, a time when long-successful strategies suddenly stop working, or a time when the gray fog of depression covers whatever was once bright and interesting, this natural (if often delayed) time of transition starts with an ending, a sense of loss.

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when you stand for something, decisions are obvious

July 24, 2014July 24, 2014 / onetusk / 1 Comment

“Draw a line in the sand – As you get going, keep in mind why you’re doing what you’re doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you’re willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world. A strong stand is how you attract super fans. They point to you and defend you. And they spread the word further, wider, and more passionately than any advertising could. Strong opinions aren’t free. You’ll turn some people off. They’ll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That’s life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.) ……..

………That’s our line in the sand. When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

― Jason Fried, ReWork

Do you want to change the world?

July 24, 2014July 24, 2014 / onetusk / Leave a comment

“The trouble with people is that they’re busy fixing things they
don’t even understand. We’re always fixing things, aren’t we? It
never strikes us that things don’t need to be fixed. They really
don’t. This is a great illumination. They need to be understood.
If you understood them, they’d change.”