Points to Ponder: July 23, 2018 Do you interact with the person or the behavior? The behavior is not the person. The behavior is an offshoot of the state of the person. When the person is weak, the behavior is bad. If you see the bad behavior, it evokes a reaction, if you see the weak
Points to Ponder: July 19, 2018 Take out some time today. Sit quiet. Allow your body to relax. Take some deep breaths. Let the tension on every part of your body ease out. Just watch your mind for some time. Let the thoughts come and go. Do not resist them. Do not engage with them either. Just
Points to Ponder: July 18, 2018 Surrender does not mean surrendering action. Usually surrender is equated with inaction. However, it is not so. Surrender means surrendering ego. It implies moving from reaction to proaction. Ego is identification with the outer self. When I identify with something, I give it the power to affect me. The outer
Points to Ponder: July 17, 2018 When I feel hot, I feel like taking a flight and going to higher altitudes because the higher you go, the cooler it gets. Paradoxically enough, the higher you go, the closer you are to the sun but instead of getting hotter, it only gets cooler. The higher you go,
Points to Ponder: July 16, 2018 This world is the canvas of the creative. The creative people are shaping the world. Any creation, whether it is a creative expression in print or any audio or visual or audio visual expression of a creative mind has a way of finding its way into the mind of the
Points to Ponder: July 13, 2018 We all have our comfort zone. It consists of a limited assortment of behaviours and situations that are suited to my conditioning. We have physical, mental, emotional, social, religious, political and other conditioning. It is a product of our journey on this planet where we have been in different places
Points to Ponder: July 12, 2018 We all know and understand the value of love. We seek love. Life without love is barren. But how do I know if I am getting love? What is the touchstone on which we test love? How do I ascertain if someone loves me? Usually, obedience is held synonymous with
Points to Ponder: July 11, 2018 The quest for peace is universal. We all want peace. We make attempts, small and large, individual and collective for peace. However, our attempts have not brought us huge success. We commonly hear the expressions “Strive for peace” or “fight for peace” which I find very interesting. It is quite
Points to Ponder: July 5, 2018 Ego creates false belief. It shrouds the truth. Sometimes it makes us doubt that which is obviously possible. Sometimes it makes us believe in something that is completely impossible. Ego wastes our energy by misdirecting it. Humility dies under the weight of ego. Ego blurs the line between what is
Points to Ponder: July 3, 2018 Today let us just casually discuss some of our casual lies. By casual lies I mean lies that we sometimes do not even consider to be lies. Lies that we just speak at the drop of a hat. Let us take a few examples: 1) I wake up in the
