MEANING
Chasing a Purpose
“Most organizations exist for a purpose but operationally chase a bottom line that is different from that purpose,” says Thulsi. Continue reading
Truly singing the song we came here to sing….
“The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. Continue reading
The power to choose, to respond, to change
“Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we’ve lived — not whether we’ve been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities,what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.”
– Viktor Frankl Continue reading
Life’s third act
Why don’t you have a huge love affair?
All these things are needed for you to have a fruitful life. Why don’t you just fall in love with the whole situation? As long as you wish to be in that situation, make it happen like a huge love affair. Why not? That’s how it should be. Only then work becomes effortless. What is it you’re calling a love affair? It’s unconditional involvement and doing whatever is needed. If you don’t have that sense of involvement, you will always try to get the best deal out of somebody. That means you must meet the dumbest people in the world. Continue reading
Opportunities will open up to us naturally…..
Imagine you see before you a carriage, a horse, and a driver. The carriage represents the physical body, the horse depicts the power of the emotions, and the driver corresponds to the intellect.
Top of Mind
The Libran prayer: “Lord, help me to be more decisive… but on the other hand, what do You think?”
“Finally it is Faith that cures.”- Mother
‘In a contrary balance to earth’s truth of things The gross weighs less, the subtle counts for more; On inner values hangs the outer plan.’ —Sri Aurobindo, Savitri
“Good people in a bad system typically go bad. Bad people in a good system become good. That sounds simplistic, but it’s true. For the majority of us, the system becomes your dharma.” – Dr.V
“Soul, stillness, and surrender—these are difficult words to fit into organisational strategy…” Dr.V
“When you begin doing the work you are meant to do, unexpected resources will find you…” – Dr.V
“Make of me what you want” – Dr.V
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Meaning and Energy
In all types of organizations, too many filled with people exhausted, cynical, and burned-out, I have witnessed the incredible levels of energy and passion that can be evoked when leaders or colleagues take the time to recall people to the meaning of their work. It only takes a simple but powerful question: “What called you here? What were you dreaming you might accomplish when you first came to work here?” Continue reading
Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of the human freedoms”—the freedom his Nazi captors could not take away. They could control his entire environment, they could do what they wanted to his body, but Viktor Frankl himself was a self-aware being who could look as an observer at his very involvement. Continue reading
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