All i want is Peace

Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. Everything means just what it says. No exceptions. When someone suggests something to you that conflicts with your conditioning, rather than responding with, "that’s ridiculous; we all know that’s impossible," say, "I’ve never considered... Read more »

Are you having fun? Do you get a thrill from your work? Do you enjoy waking up each morning? Myths about work can hurt your progress. "Work is not supposed to be fun." "You must buckle down and get serious." Perhaps the biggest myth of all: "People will think I’m important if I act seriously."... Read more »

Don’t talk negatively about people behind their backs. If you gossip, people won’t confide in you. Mind your own business. Try to work for someone who’ll challenge your powers. You’ll learn more in a year than 4 years of college. Successful bosses have good communication skills. They learn from people, including their... Read more »

Form is a wave perceived by the ocean of consciousness in an attempt to understand its own formlessness. This duality is imagined and the sense of am-ness crystallises as a discrete entity that thrives on other forms or cognising entities to assert its own form. It seeks cognisance from other forms to recognise its... Read more »

Happiness can be self-controlled and boosted through certain practices, claim researchers. Earlier, scientists had suggested happiness is primarily determined by genetics, health and other factors mostly outside of our control, reports the China Daily . Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California,... Read more »

1. Do Not Interfere In Others’ Business Unless Asked: Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others’ affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized... Read more »

To an enlightened being it does not matter whether the world appears or not. Ramana Maharshi would say that it is like the letters and the paper on which they are printed. We are so engrossed in the letters that we forget the paper. The enlightened sees the paper as the substratum whether the letters appear on it or not. An... Read more »

Whatever events unfold outwardly, there is a continuous passive act of observation of these events. This plain awareness is what animates the intellect, thoughts and every aspect of existence; it also gives rise to the illusory self, to the identification of each individual as a separate body form. It also affirms this identity... Read more »

 We live in an age of nihilism where everything is coloured by the relativity of our beliefs and perspectives. Yet, deep down inside we crave for an absolute, which we can bank on always. With the passage of time, when the pain of living has caught up with us and when the spectre of death claims more and more of the people... Read more »

You are what you are only between two storms. So how settled you are is determined by how less frequently storms arise in your life. When the storms arise, the breath becomes heavier, the body becomes unbearable and you are not at all aware of your mind. You are thrown off balance. How to free yourself from the grip of storms?... Read more »