Personal Musings
In search for life's meaning, it is revealing when life itself stares back at oneself, imploring one to help her discover herself and to give her meaning...
Nov 1, 2015
Oct 29, 2015
Oct 28, 2015
Indulgence can quench a longing only as long as the longing is not rooted in love. However, there is no longing devoid of love. Hence, no amount of indulgence ever brings complete fulfillment. All indulgence is ever tainted by a sense of dissatisfaction. Love is the only adequate and complete response to longing.
Sep 14, 2015
Aug 9, 2015
Instead of trying to control your mind, your life, your time, your attitude, your habits, your self, become utterly curious instead. Where control brings frustration, curiosity brings awareness, understanding, love and true transformation. Instead of judging yourself with a "why do I do this" become curious about "how does this come about!? ". Love of understanding underlies the wisdom of transformation.
Aug 3, 2015
How important is that really to which we give such grave importance? Would it still be meaningful if this were our last day here? For one day it will be, masked under the ordinariness of today. Where is the time for regret, remorse, resentment, anger, hate? Forgive, forget, love, laugh, smile, share. heart emoticon
Jun 13, 2015
May 15, 2015
Mar 28, 2015
As we march toward humanizing machines it is critical we not mechanize humanity. If the former is important to our sense of progress, the latter is an absolute must toward our sustenance. A device that can smell may have utility but the ability to ensconce in the beauty of a fragrance, is life itself.
Jan 27, 2015
Nov 24, 2014
We seek to be extraordinary to experience love - another's, our own. Being extraordinary does draw momentary attention but love, not so much. Love sprouts amid the ordinary, relatable, human, flawed, imperfections. We don't love what we can't relate to - in another, in ourself. May the depth of our vulnerabilities not be lost amid the height of our attainments.
Nov 23, 2014
Nov 2, 2014
Life is multi-dimensional and paradoxical; changing one aspect affects all others and overcoming one limitation still leave limitless others unattended. As we perfect the notes we play, let us be mindful of the silence in between. The silence that is ever-present, requires no improvement, and is the true source of beauty in our note playing. Grow, improve, progress, desire, but hold onto the Self that is every perfect, ever present, ever beautiful in another and in oneself.
Sep 14, 2014
Sep 13, 2014
To lie is to move away from the truth of one's own self. A truth that seeks to hurt another is a lie. A truth that seeks to save oneself at the expense of another is a lie still. Truth is love. And like love it must nurture, it must elevate, it must set free - not just the speaker but also the listener and any who are affected by it. Today be true, be kind, be love, be fearless, be free.
"I would have done the same thing" is not the moral compass of this Universe. If we find it easy to condone the misgivings of another because they mirror us, we should then be just as critical of our shortcomings in light of a perceived goodness that we may not yet reflect. Neither forgo an opportunity to do good under the "I am no Jesus" pretext, nor abandon compassion under the garb of "I would have done the same thing".
Aug 27, 2014
Aug 19, 2014
Aug 2, 2014
Jul 29, 2014
Jul 3, 2014
We often know how to show our love for those we care about when they are in need, are sick, are hurting, or dying. It takes a deeper love to acknowledge the meaning of another's presence in our life when everything seems to be in its right place. Don't wait for a tragedy. Take time to connect, to thank, to forgive, to praise, to momentarily surrender preoccupation with oneself and gratefully acknowledge the presence of another.
Jun 25, 2014
It's funny to watch people taking selfies in heart of Times Square - alone, by themselves, putting on a HUGE smile for the selfie, and then immediately going back to a sad lost look. Perhaps it is sad. What we project - our heart's desire to be seen as a happy and content person- and how we convince ourselves that our lives are otherwise and require "improvement" before we can be that projected self. Let's be happy, let's inspire happy, not just when we actually are but also in the middle of a storm, now.
Jun 19, 2014
No matter how smart, sophisticated, logical, or true it may sound, if the thought, the word, the deed, the argument hurts the heart of another or of oneself, it is mere mental trickery and must be surrendered right then and there. Cause no hurt. Cause no harm. Be an instrument through which another is healed. Forgive another, forgive yourself. Move forward in life - together.
Jun 16, 2014
Be with a person because you want to be them, not because you cannot be without them. The latter comes from a place of lack, former from abundance. When we work from lack all we come upon is scarcity. First recognize your own fullness and abundance and then share it with another. Don't look to another to fulfill your perceived lack ❤
Jun 11, 2014
Almost all people at work are starting to look the same - either the shape of a telephone receiver or that of an email. Outside of work people in my life look like FB statuses and text messages. I think I look no different to them either. In the name of 'Social Network', we might just have invented the most ingenious anti-social mechanism.
Jun 10, 2014
Jun 8, 2014
Jun 3, 2014
Society rewards conformance, which exacts extrinsic success at the expense of inner joy. If our sense of joy has not kept pace with the extent of our 'success', we somewhere let go of who we are for what we were told we would want to be. Let's go back, rediscover our buried self, and start again. This time with all the courage and authenticity of being ourself.
Jun 2, 2014
The greatest gift we ever can give to ourselves and to this world is that of a peaceful mind. No one else can offer it to us. It is part effort and part Grace. Let's be mindful of how we lose it and what we exchange it for in our daily living. Let us find it, cultivate it, nurture it, and return to it again and again.
Jun 1, 2014
Be ever-mindful of the inner cost exacted for an outer achievement. The who we become inwardly in pursuit of what we seek to acquire outwardly is infinitely more important, if we are to come upon lasting contentment. Don't sacrifice the inner you who you cannot be without for the sake of an outer you whom you think you would rather be.
May 14, 2014
May 3, 2014
Apr 24, 2014
The opposite is an invention of a mind seeking to escape from the reality, the fear, and the sorrow of that which is. We invent detachment so we can escape from the truth of us being attached, we define and pursue the ideal of non-violence to keep us from discovering the truth of the violence within us, and we fascinate ourselves with the imaginative advent of immortality to keep us from needing to confront the fact of our limited existence.
The opposite does not exist except in our minds. There is only that which is and there is an end to that which is. Attachment can end, as can violence. But to pursue detachment or non-violence is but a perpetuation of that which is - we get attached to the idea of being detached; we become violent in our pursuit of non-violence.
The attempt to escape is itself the bondage. A prisoner is not one who is confined but one who wishes to escape - from a prison, from a job, from a relationship, from life itself. Be free. Be now. Be with that which is.
The opposite does not exist except in our minds. There is only that which is and there is an end to that which is. Attachment can end, as can violence. But to pursue detachment or non-violence is but a perpetuation of that which is - we get attached to the idea of being detached; we become violent in our pursuit of non-violence.
The attempt to escape is itself the bondage. A prisoner is not one who is confined but one who wishes to escape - from a prison, from a job, from a relationship, from life itself. Be free. Be now. Be with that which is.
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