To be alive is to attend with reverence to life's each moment, recognizing and honoring its sacredness. 

The idea that there is something more important, meaningful, useful, better than what lies immediately in front of us is the greatest mental illusion. It is the root of all sorrow, the basis of all discontent. All that is, is here, is now. 

When we come from a place of "what about me?" We require courage to overcome fear. It is only when we come from a place of "what about them?" That we discover our strength. 

Like a hungry child that would throw tantrum but not eat, not know she is hungry, so we neglect what we need most in our times of need. 

Happiness, like common sense, is readily available and yet often inaccessible. 

We do everything in the name of happiness and yet all we do only stands in the way of our being happy. For there is no way to happiness other than to make happiness itself the way. 

If we had to choose between being sophisticated versus happy, we will choose the former. In fact, we already have. 

No matter how loving an action, if it seeks to gain approval, it is not love. We seek approval for our own sake. Only when the need for approval is dropped do we become capable of seeing and understanding the needs and concerns of another. 

Being happy is easy. What is difficult is to let go of all the becoming that stands in the way. We would rather be sophisticated, knowledgeable, accomplished, and miserable than be happy.

Many are the ways in which we ignore life, as are the ways in which she seeks our embrace. Start doing more of what you keep telling yourself you will get to eventually. There is no coming back to where you are today. Life knocks. Open the doors. 

Ambition devoid of compassion is as devastating as power disjointed from wisdom.

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. 

The desire to change yesterday is rooted in discontent with today. When we are content with what is, we are also at peace with what was. 

The most altruistic use of power is to bring a balance to power - empower the weak and keep the strong in check.

ज़िंदगी क्या है़, कुछ शिकवों शिकायतों का सिलसिला

कुछ इंसान के जीते जी, कुछ उसके चले जाने के बाद ।।

Attachment is the inability to be without what one has. While greed is the inability to be without what one does not have. Both keep us from experiencing gratitude toward the joy of what is and the relief of what is not.  

Admiration turns to jealousy when one sees in another what one wants for oneself and knows not how to achieve it. Behind anger and jealousy there is often a cry for help!

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.

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

Our failure reflects in each heart that fears us.

As a broken finger finds everything it touches painful, so a fragmented mind finds everything full of misery.

Before one can listen one wants to feel heard. If you want someone to listen, go first.

Money, like its sister power, is a magnifying lens that serves to accentuates who we are - be it miserable, wretched, scornful, jealous or be it happy, loving, kind, sincere, honest. It is as much a means to express oneself as it is a means to experience oneself.

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.

The voice that goes most unheard across the din of living is that of one's own. If we don't heed it, it won't matter how many others listened to it.