“Discipline” is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you’re wrong. But self-discipline is different.
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catalysts of change
Creativity : to bring forth something that does not yet exist..
Barnum explains: The creative process is a process of finding, not of projecting something already seen and known in one’s mind. Continue reading
Look at the path, and do something
Two men were once lost in a forest. It was very dangerous, the forest was so dense, it was night, darkness and wild animals all around. Continue reading
Life and Death are Two Aspects of One Reality
(Contributed by Mr. Sunderesan)
Communication really happens only between Hearts
The doors of the heart open only to love. And remember it is only when one hears with the heart and not with the head that listening happens. Continue reading
I am a Tourist
An American tourist went to see a Sufi Master. For many years he had heard about him, had fallen in deep love with his words, his message. Finally he decided to go to see him. When he entered his room he was surprised — it was an utterly empty room! The Master was sitting; there was no furniture at all! The American could not conceive of a living space without any furniture. He immediately asked, “Where is your furniture, sir?”
And the old Sufi laughed and he said, “And where is yours?” Continue reading
Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are
“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our “biography,” our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards… It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are? Continue reading
if you cling too strongly, then even when truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it
The Buddha once told a story about a young man who was a trader and had a beautiful wife and baby son. Sadly, his wife fell ill and died, and the man poured all his love into his little child, who became the sole source of his happiness and joy.
Once while he went away on business, bandits raided his village, burned it to the ground and captured his five-year-old son. When he returned and saw the devastation, he was beside himself with grief. He found the charred corpse of a small child, and in his desperation, he took it for the body of his son. He tore at his hair and beat his chest, and wept uncontrollably. Continue reading
Focus on what is holding you together
I often refer to tearing thoughts. These are thoughts that attack us, like “I am weak. I am worthless. I am no good. That-other person is better than I am”. Tearing thoughts are an extraordinary psychological phenomenon. When cells take the wrong path and start to attack the organ they live in, we call it cancer. Tearing thoughts are a kind of autoimmune failure of the mental body. Continue reading
Thought for the Week – 22nd January 2018
….there is a capacity for wonder , and a gut level discomfort with bigotry – all of which are born of knowing that whatever life is about, it isn’t about blueprints, recipes or grand narratives…..
– Arundhathi Subramaniam from Pilgrim’s India
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