Points to Ponder: August 1, 2018 It is mostly thought that failure is the opposite of success but that is not true. Failure is a part of the journey to success. The opposite of success is actually giving up. As long as you don’t give up you never fail. You only get acquainted with the different
Points to Ponder: July 31, 2018 Yesterday we explored that God is not the giver of sorrow. But God is the remover of sorrow. It is often thought that one who gives the pain can only give solace. So if God is not the giver of pain, how can He be the giver of solace?
Points to Ponder: July 30, 2018 We all pray to God. We cry, beg, plead and say have mercy, my Lord. We ask God to remove our sorrows and bless us. And yes God is hailed as the benevolent one, He has always been upheld as the bestower of happiness. But in all of this, there
Points to Ponder: July 27, 2018 We live in a culture where we believe in finding alternatives rather than finding solutions. Let us take some examples to illustrate this: 1) I have a pain in the body. It actually requires rest and care or a shift in my lifestyle to correct it. But we usually tend
Points to Ponder: July 26, 2018 Once I asked a small kid what his favorite game was and he replied cricket. His eyes gleamed with joy and he instantly hit some imaginary ball in the sky with his imaginary bat. There was another kid, a little older in age, who mocked at him and said, ”
Points to Ponder: July 25, 2018 Yesterday we discussed how each one of us is running on empty and seeking from the other. In an attempt to find a way out of this predicament, let us begin with a story today. This is the story of the seed. The seed came from the tree. The seed
Points to Ponder: July 24, 2018 I will today write about certain peculiarities of human behavior that have intrigued me for quite some time now. 1) The one who cannot love himself promises to love the other till the end of time. 2) The one who cannot take care of himself vows to take care of
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
