All Entries Tagged With: "Meaning of life"

round earthSome reason has to be,
For the earth to be round
So Life is never straight,
Always comes and goes around.

I often feel like the horses in Central Park. You know, those horses with blinkers on, pulling their carriages, trotting up and down the cobblestone path. I imagine that the blinkers help to keep me focused on my life’s purpose. The blinkers force me to set my sights dead straight ahead and as I toil [...]

“Don’t worry son, you’ll figure it out once your career hits off, trust me now, and study what I want you to.” “Oil your hair regularly son, else you’ll lose it before you hit thirty.” “Its just a phase, you’ll figure it out don’t worry, you’re just a teenager.” Seems like yesterday when I was [...]

The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. So much is because of you. The letters you’ve written and sent, the touches, the kisses, the parties. Every grain of advice, set of directions, every breakfast for guests. That quarter you [...]

Recently, I wanted to try a bus route to reach my office, so I left my home very early on feet to get to the station. When I arrived there I got a direct bus to reach my office. There was no rush in the bus and so I got a window seat. I was [...]

You know that the teacher appears when you’re ready. Sometimes it’s a pop tune, or an ad on the bus, sometimes it’s the handy man. Keep your heart open and you’ll recognize the wisdom when it shows up…wearing overalls and fedora.

Chaos is a name for any order that creates confusion in our minds – George Santayana. Man has a basic resistance to chaos. He likes life predictable and systematic. Want evidence? Look around you. See how good a man is at creating systems that are simple, identical and replicable. The quality, dimensions and features of [...]

Several years ago I had the  good fortune to be mentored by a stunning individual.  Much of what I was ‘taught’ and the thinking I was exposed to simply went over my head.  Actually that’s not entirely true, it went in my head – the subconscious mind soaks up everything like a sponge, even if [...]

I sigh when I read this book by John O’Donohue. About every three paragraphs I close my eyes and shake my head in awe, as if to say to the gods of philosophy and poetry, “Thank you for this man”! This is a diamond blessing of a book that has become one of my favourite [...]

How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows, That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, [...]

(Note: This post is in 3 parts. Click here for parts 1 and 2. The author has chosen not to reveal her identity.) There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed, healed and done with. When you’ve finally hit the lowest point, [...]

(Note: This post is in 3 parts. Click here for parts 1 and 3. The author has chosen not to reveal her identity.) No one enjoys suffering though great men tell us suffering has a purpose: “If you have not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, [...]

(Note: This post is in 3 parts. Click here for parts 2 and 3. The author has chosen not to reveal her identity.) No one can tell what goes on between the person you were and the person you become. No one charts that anguish of descending into a private hell. There are no maps [...]

An opportunity (relating to material world) comes one’s way in normal course without any effort or initiative.  One starts pursuing the opportunity and soon the door is closed.  What is the teaching in this? The question refers to a pursuit that did not bring the desired result. Interestingly, the pursuit began when an opportunity one [...]

Sitting on the beach, eyes fixed on the setting sun, my hands kept playing with the sand, holding a fistful and then letting it slip through my fingers. The feeling was very soothing, more meditative. The big red ball just ducked under and as though to say a loud good night, I heard the big [...]

So many people are looking for it: their big life purpose. Becoming YOU is your purpose.  You’re the very purpose of your existence. Realizing what lights your fire and floats your boat — THAT’s your life purpose. What else could it be? If it gives you true joy {not the seemingly happy-high that is fleeting, [...]

Think that’s a strange concept?  Think you’re exempt?  Have you ever heard of “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also?”  Your treasure is what you concentrate most of your daily thoughts on.  Are you engrossed in repeated, driving thoughts of any of the following: making money, being successful and popular, food, pornography, [...]

When we give something we are always keeping a track of every penny that is going out but when we are receiving we feel that we have never received enough. And then we compare our giving with what is coming in and always the final balance shows a negative balance because compared to what we [...]

Last night I searched in Google, typing ‘Prof Daya Krishna’, the name of my most loving teacher, rather a lovely, witty friend with white beard. When I joined the philosophy department in university, he had already retired. I met him as a helper student who was supposed to read and write for him as his [...]