When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. Continue reading
Confused
Pause, just long enough to be informed
One of my teachers said to me once, “We need to pause, just long enough to be informed.” When our life is deconstructing, when our familiar points of reference are shifting or falling away completely, when our minds are the most confused and our hearts the most broken-open, that is the time to pause. Pause, just long enough to be informed. Continue reading
It is impossible to laugh and think together
Laughter brings some energy from your inner source to your surface. Energy starts flowing, follows laughter like a shadow. Have you watched it? When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together. They are diametrically opposite: either you can laugh or you can think. If you really laugh, thinking stops. If you are still thinking, laughter will be just so-so, it will be just so-so, lagging behind. It will be a crippled laughter. Continue reading
Objectivity is subjective
Life is a subjective experience and that cannot be escaped. Continue reading
What is the transformation in me that is required?
No one is going to change as a result of our desires. In fact, they will resist our efforts to change them simply due to the coercive aspect of the interaction. Continue reading
A butterfly is a transformation, not a better caterpillar.
25 Lessons Learned from John Wooden
- A doer makes mistakes. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning. Everybody makes mistakes. It’s what you do with them that counts.
- Academics are enduring. Getting an education is a #1 priority. Wooden made it a point to his players that they were first and foremost a student (the student part of “student athlete”). Wooden said, “If you let social activity take precedence over the other two (education and sports), then you’re not going to have any for very long.” Wooden also said, “Sports are kind of like passion and that’s temporary in many cases, but academics — that’s like true love and that’s enduring.”
- Agree to disagree, but don’t be disagreeable. According to Wooden, “We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.” Continue reading
Nobody can travel our path for us
Unknowingly most of us are waiting for someone or something to rescue us. But I am here to tell you no one is coming – not your mother, not your father, not a prince on a white horse. Continue reading
they consider themselves not better than others, just more fortunate….
When we come to know the powerful figures of the world – captains of industry , presidents of banks, Nobel prizewinners, and members of legendary families – it’s striking to see how many are open, warm, sincere and view success as a responsibility, or ‘noblesse oblige’. Continue reading
Failing to Notice
ONE TUSK 