Serene

When the silence beckons,
And the day draws to a close,
When the light of your life sighs,..
And love dies in your eyes,
Only then will I realise,
What you mean to me.


"ANATHEMA" is the band

Happy Holi

May God gift you all the colors of life, colors of joy, colors of happiness, colors of friendship, colors of love and all other colors you want to paint in your life…

The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and endings, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Have a colorful Day in life…

Freedom!

To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity. ~ Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man


The song of life plays it tunes and the body moves in synchrony with it. There is no need to think to do the right movements. The more we feel the rhythm without thinking, the easier and delightful the body movements will appear. The ears will listen to the sounds the mind will interpret those sounds and the body moves to them. There is no further thought involved.

The song of life plays its own tune. It is a tune of freedom. Freedom means to break from everything which is known. To feel free the “known” must be gone.

As we dance in joy of the sounds of music, likewise; we learn to move according to the different rhythms played by life itself. The more flexible I become through my own practice and experience, the greater my range of motion and thus my ability to move in synchronization with the tunes of life.

Life unfolds its beauty when I am ready to try. The bird wants to fly. To open the cage of comfort is an act of courage which allows us to feel the power of our own wings. Its true capacity.

To be honest with your own nature of innocence, freedom and enjoyment and to go beyond any boundary, any preconception, any mental wall in such a way as to experience the experience and to express the best of it, is to transform yourself.

Self transformation is a practical matter where life plays a tune and we move unlike anything we have done before. The tune cannot be the same if the CD of life is moving forward. The tempo of the songs of life will vary; at one time it will be salsa, another a jazzy tune and perhaps then a disco tune will appear. My dancing steps cannot be the same, for sameness means dullness, my steps need to change; I need to listen to the tunes without a further thought, break the schemes of what is a “proper dance.” The tunes play and I move. Life has given me experiences as a way to practice my own dancing moves. I have practiced many times those moves, but … I can only use them when the song is appropriate; then beauty and harmony will be experienced, it will be seen. That beauty is authentic.

Sometimes life will play an “AC\DC” tune. It is not for me to catalog the song as “good” or “bad,” since it is just another tune… another song. I can choose to dance and enjoy it or to let the song change my mood and stop my dance. Life is not a “rock and roll” song. Many songs will be played, but the good dancer knows how to move and enjoy every tune; every time.

The critic is outside, seeing the scene of life comfortably seated in a chair. Just like sitting in a Discotheque without dancing and without enjoying how others dance, but just to catalog what is “good” and what is “bad.”

The critic will be afraid of moving to the tunes of life since his own “good” and “bad” formula only works when others are dancing and not when he is the one on the dance floor. Knowing is to know yourself and nothing else.

Life is about experiencing and expression. The experience makes us grow as long as we don’t play the “good and bad” game. We can only express beauty when our experiences are beautiful.

When we look at a tiger we can catalog that animal as “good or bad.” However, our own limited perception cannot disagree about the beauty and majesty of a tiger, for beauty is beyond good and evil.

Beauty can only be expressed when we go beyond the stigmas, the stereotype, the judgments… when there is freedom from the known.

Just December

This world is filled with a lot of negative news..
Negative thoughts, negative comments..
It is easy to get lost in the negativity of the world.
As soon as we rise in the morning, it finds us.
Because we are so negative about ourselves..
With the way we look, our bodies..
Too old, too fat, too thin, too useless..
Not seeing anything special about ourselves.
Mainly becoz we see ourselves
As the world thinks we should be.
And not as we truly are..

We all need good positive thoughts..
For they are the lifter of our hearts-
Many are cast down
Because of how people talk to them,
How people react to them,
How the media sees them;

I have something good to tell you
That I know a lot about you.
And it is all good!
And how God sees you..
And he sees you as GOOD! !!
God saw everything that He had made
And indeed it was good!

Busy for Copenhagen!

"I know what it’s like and so I can feel that compassion and empathy for others who are at this point struggling. It was very powerful when I realised that the people that knew of my mistake were also ready to forgive me. Their forgiveness came from two factors- their own generosity of spirit and their faith in the goodness of the human being, not just my goodness rather the recognition of the goodness of every human being.


So they were able to say; 'We understand, mistakes happen. It’s OK. We’ve been through the same. We will help you take another step and we know that it is possible as we know that the inner beauty of the soul can come shining through and we are ready to help you with that.'"

See the Sweetness

No matter how bad people may seem, they possess at least one virtue. Be like the humming bird and pick out the sweetness of everyone's character.



Sid said -

“He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

P.S - Could readers please interpret it for especially the last two lines. :)

From Taking to Giving

The intention behind every action and interaction will fall into one of two categories – giving or taking. Some give because they expect to get something in return, which means they are taking when they are giving. Others take because they want to be able to give more or give better. They are already giving. And a few give everything they have either because they need to be seen as a giver, which means they are still taking, or because they respond to a call to give to others for no reason other than it is the natural thing to do.

In a rampantly material world where the vast majority of us are conditioned to want, take and keep, those who are genuinely generous and authentically kind appear are treasured individuals. However, it seems that more of us are hearing the call to give, to be more benevolent, to make a contribution to something bigger than our self. John F Kennedy called it, “… a care beyond the self”.

Unfortunately when many do hear that call, either from their own conscience or their spirit moves them to reverse the process of taking to giving, they are unsure where to start. Others find the habit of taking so strongly rooted in their personality they find it hard to change the direction of their energy despite their good intentions. A few do get started but find the pressure from peer group or society itself to remain ‘on the take’ so great that they discover themselves resorting to old patterns of thinking and acting, driven by the old voice their head which says, “Get what you can whenever you can”.

On lighter note !

"..you are now completely under my spell !.."