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.

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.

Simple is not a synonym for meaningless. Whether it be simple life, simple person, simple thing, simple thought, or a simple you and I. In fact, it is because of meaning, understanding that things start to appear simple. Let not simplicity fool us away from its sublime self.

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 ❤

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.

What differentiates noise from music is not the sound but the listener. All noise has a rhythm and all music eventually starts to sound like noise. To be mindful is to be present to the music in every noise and to know the noise created by all music.

Time invalidates not only our good decisions but also the seemingly bad choices in its due course. Eventually, things just happen and our interpretations of them transpire, transform, and finally evaporate until the next change comes along.

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.

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.

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.