Beyond Thinking: Deep down, you have concluded that your life is significant only in your thought processes, while everything else that is happening around you is just an ordinary routine of life. This conclusion makes your life boring, and makes …
The 5 AM Club: Robin Sharma Robin Sharma has established himself as a foremost authority on leadership, performance and success. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide. The 5 AM club is his latest book that talks about the …
Being with the body: Instead of being occupied with your thoughts all the time, it is infinitely better to shift your awareness to your body. Your body is your shrine. It is the temple that holds the Truth called you. …
Pursuit of Emptiness: The entire effort involved in meditation is to find that absolute quiet zone within you, where your mind and body have no influence whatsoever. For every sensory experience, there is a corresponding zone of emptiness. Silence is …
The True Self: Every time you reflect on aliveness, it is done through the body. You wake up in the morning and think that the process of waking up and observing everything around you is aliveness. What if aliveness is …
Society & Spirituality: Survival is the basic necessity of human life, and it involves acquiring knowledge about people, environment, past, future and many other things. Only after this basic necessity has been fulfilled, can you look at higher knowledge such …
Conscious Choice: Spirituality is the only conscious evolution that is possible to you as a human being. Everything else in life simply happens, whether you are conscious of it or not. Life is more of a happening than a doing. …
Act Natural: Ken Howard When we are not alone, we are all public speakers and actors. With a little bit of effort and practice we can learn to act natural when around people. The nervousness and uncomfortable feeling of delivering …
Dare to be yourself: For a long time in human history, religion was the first and only source of information, knowledge and wisdom. A lot of your mental framework was built on the foundation of your religious beliefs. If your …
Not losing hope: It is very easy to be hopeful and enthusiastic about life when everything is going fine. Hope becomes all the more important and crucial when things are not going according to plan. Life at the core is …
Breaking through the illusion: If you are able to experience a single moment of discontinuity in this continuous flow of thoughts, continuous connectivity to the past, you will experience a transcendental reality which will give you a glimpse of who …
Science of Silence (Continued): At the same time, meditation is something more than just a science; it is a mystical experience. A mystical experience does not fall within the boundaries of linear time and logic. That’s why it’s mystical; …
Essential Rumi: Coleman Barks Essential Rumi is a collection of Rumi’s best poems and stories. Rumi stands miles appart from his deep understanding of life and human phenomenon from the rest of humanity. A mystic at heart, his peoems reach …
Science of Silence: Meditation is very mysterious. It is scientific. It is precise. If you are dedicated to the practice, if you’re putting in the necessary time, the results will show. In that sense, meditation is spectacularly precise. Just like …
Learning Through Everything: So, supplement your meditation with knowledge, with reasoning, with logic, and with science. Keep inquiring about it. Find different teachers. Learn from different people. Just let go of your ego a little bit and learn from all …
Watching the movie of your life: Meditation is a little uncomfortable. It’s not like watching a movie; you can watch an engaging two-hour movie easily, but to sit and watch your thoughts for two hours is extraordinarily difficult, because it’s …
How to make time for meditation? Make a simple list of three or four things that you want to say no to. It could be saying no to sleeping eight hours a day. If you’re able to take down your sleep from eight hours …
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend: Robert James Waller Robert James Waller, after his spectacular runaway success of Bridges of Madison County,, gives us yet another memorable and beautiful love story of Michael Tillman and Jellie Braden. Slow Waltz in Cedar …
Focus in a Chaotic World: What you want to do vs. what you can do When you pick up any new habit, be it meditation or something that you’re interested in like reading or a new hobby, you will quickly realize that there is …
Watching Your Breath: Watching the disturbance of the mind is the whole purpose of meditation. Relaxation will eventually happen as a natural consequence of observing and accepting your thoughts, but this won’t happen in a day or two – it …