One moment can change the day. One day can change your life. One life can change the world. There’s a story about a mountaineer I love. Let’s call him Hans; Hans had just climbed the Kilimanjaro and he, with his team, was headed back when they found themselves caught in a violent storm. When the storm finally stopped raging, the […]
Should parents be friends with their children? A balance has to be struck. Raman entered the ashram with his shirt torn and a cut across his cheek which was bleeding. “A few boys standing outside were speaking ill of you, Guruji, and so I got into a fight with them,’’ he explained. You should ignore what others say about me, […]
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard * Just recently, I went out for a long […]
Like Tom Hanks in `Castaway’, we are all living on our own islands. Hanks’ character, a social animal like all of us, craved human company, and when he found an old football, he painted eyes, a nose, a mouth on it, and pretended it was a human being. He spoke to it, he laughed, cried, got angry with it. Of […]
Here’s a little story. Chintu was playing in his garden when he noticed, in a small dark patch of shrubs, a butterfly struggling to get out of his cocoon. The butterfly was having a difficult time; it was struggling, it was fighting, it was exerting all its energy to get out of the cocoon but it couldn’t get out. Chintu, […]
Imagine a ball of string that is all knotted up, tangled, twisted and knotty, a large mess whose ends can’t be found, and unravelling and opening it up seems like an almost impossible task. That’s what our mind is like when we are agitated, upset, unhappy. Our thoughts tear around chaotically in our heads, one crashing into another in the […]
Each one of us is unique and the world needs more of that. I believe that my uniqueness began when I got my first strand of grey hair. Most people view gray hair as a sign of getting old and the end of youth. In the desire to hold on to our youth, we start to color our hair which, […]
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