The Undivided Truth: Life makes sense only when looked at in totality. In the hopes of understanding a flower, we can pluck it from the plant, chop its petals, put it under a microscope and try to analyze it. This …
You are the Master: Up until now, everything you’ve been doing in your life has been happening through your mind. Even when you wanted to look at things from your heart, love or admire things just for what they are, …
World Of Our Fathers: Irving Howe In the animal kingdom, migration is one of the greatest of phenomenon. Migration is even more so adventurous and memorable among human beings. Millions of people around the world have migrated to other parts …
Controlling Your Noisy Mind: When you say, “My mind is noisy,” you are right! You need to understand that the mind is nothing but noise. If you were to take away all the noise, all the distractions, and all the …
Why do we suffer? Suffering is not an act, it is an experience. Suffering can have no meaning without the participation of the self. Suffering cannot happen without the involvement of the self. If one goes deep and looks at …
Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes Written during the Civil War, Leviathan explores the political philosophy in a world of violence and horror. It explores ways of avoiding slipping into anarchy during times of war. This book was burnt as sedition during its …
Art of watching your breath: Before watching something, you need to know what you are trying to watch. What exactly is the breath? If you have not precisely defined what a breath is, you will not be able to watch …
Accepting Pain & Pleasure: As impossible it is to eradicate pain and suffering from your life fully, that impossible it is to be happy all the time. Happiness is like a tickling sensation of the mind – It is good …
What is Happiness? There is a deep connection between the nature of the mind and the nature of happiness. Mind, by definition, oscillates between the past and the future, so where is the experience of happiness? We know that happiness …
The Present Moment: In the most simplistic sense, life is too short to be fighting with and changing every behavior of ours. The choice we have is simple: Either we can make this very moment a celebration by accepting ourselves …
The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh: Flowers have always played an important role in the history of mankind. They have been a source for expression emotions of love, grief and joy for centuries. There is another mysterious side to …
State of Mind: At any given point in time you are either in a positive or a negative state of mind. When you observe this, you will realize that you are off balance throughout the day, because you can’t remain in …
Change is Real: Observe what is happening around you. Try not to bring in all your accumulated knowledge, ideas and concepts. Just observe, as if you are looking at things for the first time. When you look at the tree, …
Virtue of Silence: Waking up to our true nature is simply to realize that we are dreaming all the time. Dream is not some isolated phenomenon of life; dream is life. Everything we dearly call life is a part of …
Lost in Thoughts: There are two states in which we can live in: We can either be lost in our thoughts or we can be aware of what we are doing. Being lost in thought is the more common of …
Jerusalem: James Carroll Perhaps, there is no other place in history that is as steeped in religious, political and historical significance as Jerusalem. Considered as the birth place of three of the world’s largest Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Islam and Christianity, …
Embracing Creativity: Creativity is not just an isolated department of life; it is the core of life. The very process of living is a creative endeavor. Creativity cannot happen without you, and this is very important to understand. It is …
Difference between knowledge and information: Your knowledge is never a burden. It is your ignorance that is a burden. Any time you feel that your knowledge is becoming a burden, know that this burden is not the result of your …
The beginning and the end: Nicolas Berdyaev A life not based on philosophy is just a random set of activities with no deeper meaning and purpose. Philosophy lends meaning and purpose to life and more importantly it helps one to …
Staying Motivated: To be able to achieve anything significant and valuable in life one has to learn the art of sustaining ones motivation levels. It is very easy to become distracted from the goal and wander here and there, more …