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Disappointment
How do you react when something doesn’t happen the way you planned? A breakup or that canceled flight, losing a potential customer or a longstanding client. Do you get angry and throw a tantrum or do you shrink back into … Read more →
Resistance
The other day I picked up my Kindle with a view to eat it. Just joking (about the eating part). It has 900+ items out of which over 600 are books (20% unread). So, I thought I would read something … Read more →
Day 14: Taboo of Sexuality
Swamiji, in this session, discusses an extremely sensitive issue of sexuality and how restrictions and guilt around it have become a restricting force in our spiritual upliftment. Below are the salient features of this session. 1. Meaning of lust and … Read more →
Respect
Do you like it if anyone disrespects you? I know it’s an absurd question. Of course, you don’t. I mean do you get affected if others disrespect you? Strike that too, actually. Of course, you get affected in varying degrees … Read more →
Battling Your Biology
My father was thirty-three years old and my mother twenty-nine when they had me (I’ve shared that story in a bit more detail in my memoir). To this day, I’ve only ever heard my father speak on one of four … Read more →
Side Effects of Meditation
I must start by thanking you. That’s because your comments to my last post made me realize that I might have caused some alarm with the number of hours I put into meditation. I might have mistakenly conveyed that without … Read more →
When You Feel in Control
Have you ever looked at someone and wondered why they are still working? I mean, there are many wealthy people who have all imaginable luxury at their beck and call and yet they routinely put 8-12 hrs into their work. … Read more →
Three Kinds of People
Ah! I see. You are here. Well, thank you. I suspect you have to come to read about the hardest part of my life. In case, you haven’t read my last post, please do so. Otherwise, this write-up may feel … Read more →
The Hardest Thing about my Life
Most days I don’t mind working hard. Everyone who wishes to make an honest living works hard in this day and age. I’m no exception. Sometimes though, I wish to rest. But, there’s always a deadline of one kind or … Read more →
The Ultimate Wealth
In the last post, I shared my thoughts on building material wealth. That, how regular investing was the way to go. And that, in my view, debt should be avoided at all costs. The only exception, perhaps, would be a … Read more →
Change
Today, I sit before a blank screen wondering what to share with you. Again. Of course, this by no means is the first time that I am looking at a screen painted grey but my mind is particularly quiet today. … Read more →
Revenge
The truth is that man gets filled with what he sees. The person who sees the small is filled with the small; the one who sees the great is filled with that greatness. Our eyes are the gateways to our … Read more →
The Eight Stages of Anger
Have you noticed how we have the least tolerance for certain things and people in life? The moment we have to face those episodes or people, most of us simply fly off the handle. We may regret it later on, … Read more →
Just Right
Have you noticed how we can be so particular about the amount of salt in our meals? The texture, aroma, cooking, and all other spices may be perfect in your favorite dish but if the salt isn’t right, the whole … Read more →
Shelly Singh : 12.05.77 – 12.07.20
For years I’ve had the tradition of writing on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month, but this moment demands that I share my thoughts and feelings with you, very briefly, in this special post dedicated to a very … Read more →
