” Creating meaningful change, is how I think about leadership, be it personal or professional. Continue reading
Spirituality
Service
“To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.”
– Lewis Carroll
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965);
Find Your Own Calcutta
“Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Continue reading
You have your thought and I have mine
Your thought is a tree rooted deep in the soil of tradition and whose branches grow in the power of continuity. My thought is a cloud moving in the space. It turns into drops which, as they fall, form a brook that sings its way into the sea. Then it rises as vapour into the sky. Your thought is a fortress that neither gale nor the lightning can shake. My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve.
You have your thought and I have mine. Continue reading
If there is no struggle there is no progress
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Continue reading
I am an incorrigible optimist
I’m aware of the threats that surround us, but I haven’t lost my faith, I haven’t lost my hope. And I haven’t lost my confidence that people working together harmoniously can bring about a change for the better in the world that our children will grow up in. Continue reading
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day.” – Lao Tzu
The Silent Watcher
” Be present as the watcher of your mind – of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Continue reading
Seven times have I despised my soul:
The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height. Continue reading
What is Relaxation?
It is a state of affairs where your energy is not moving anywhere, not to the future, not to the past – it is simply there with you. Continue reading