Make it..

“Once you decide to do something, the universe conspires to help you. There are a lot of people who are really talented, but I can see they’re not going to make it because they don’t work hard enough.” -Gerald Butler

Echo

Again ; Meaningfulness

Listen and watch to two different versions of the same situation in these two movies, Marupadiyum and Arth. Both have their own depth and are soothing quality

“When”, it matters..

“Act tough when the other person is not weak but arrogant.”

Rahul Bajaj

Boxes full of…

My witch of portobello tweeted abt this.. makes me want to be more creative in cooking…

Bento boxes

Always endless…

From a friend’s quote of the day-

There is always a Hope and an End; it depends on you, how you deal with them. you can look at it as a hopeless end or an endless hope..

Glad to know in which category i am…

Life, Universe and chaitanya chitta…

Pure unadulterated consciousness is the original quality of the individual soul in his liberated state. Material consciousness is the perverted reflection of spiritual consciousness exhibited by the individual soul in his bounded state, which is due to his misidentification with matter.

TYPES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

And then came Babar Ali…

The ‘youngest headmaster in the world’

All it takes is a desire…

Bewajaha tho nahi…

A couple of lines from the song “Piya Jaise Ladoo Motichur Wale..” rendererd beautifully by Rekha Bharadwaj

Jo Tum Kabhi Muskuraye
To Laga Hai Yeh Muzko
Is Zindagi Bewajaha To Nahi Hai
Haan

To Laga Hai Yeh Muzko
Is Zindagi Bewajaha To Nahi Hai
Haaan

If you ever give a smile sometime,
Then i get the feeling that
this life has not been worthless..

Then i get the feeling that
this life has not been worthless..

Stop the viscious circle, start the undoing….

Simply Elevate And See The Big Difference
Marguerite Theophil

“It’s human nature after all!” Hearing this, we rarely stop to wonder “What does that really mean?” It is most often used in a negative sense about a spectrum of behaviour from the harmlessly quirky to the downright evil. But ‘human nature’ also embraces a wholesome capacity for love, compassion, service and interdependence.
What makes us, as a species, veer from time to time towards the ‘dark’ side of our nature? Ecologist and research psychologist John Calhoun tells of the Ik, a Ugandan mountain people forcibly relocated from their ancestral homeland to a desolate area. Cut off from their cultural roots, brought to near starvation, they slowly developed a numbing insensitivity to the suffering of others.
One day, Lo’ono, an old blind woman, fell into a deep ravine. Badly injured, her pleas for help were ignored; instead, many crowded around the edge, laughing and jeering, even throwing sticks and pebbles at her as she lay dying. What happened to these people, Calhoun warned, can happen to any of us. His research revealed this was not an inherently violent tribe. Prior to relocation, they lived in relative harmony, extending the usual hospitality to each other and to strangers. But with a steady diet of neglect, hunger, despair and little else, they ‘descended’ into acting from the lowest side of their nature.
This works for individuals as well as for groups. Societies and governments today use and abuse power to subjugate or humiliate people and countries perceived in any way as being lower or less powerful. Then, as the less powerful now become more powerful, we witness increasingly inhuman instances of retaliation born from this contagious, toxic contamination. And oddly, we continue to be surprised! There is an opposite and equally contagious ‘ascending’ tendency within us that some refer to as elevation – that uplifting, inspiring feeling on reading, hearing of or experiencing acts of human goodness, courage, sacrifice and compassion.
What is significant here is that elevation results in making one want to also help others and to become a better person. When we encounter people behaving in a petty, selfish or vicious way, we tend to feel that we do not live in a morally inspiring world. When we see too much of this, it’s easy to get to a stage when one says: “What’s the use”, and further to a stage when one feels: “If you can’t beat them, join them.” On the other hand, when we learn of someone, especially a stranger, performing an act of kindness or generosity for another, we do feel we live in a fair and just world, and want to make it fairer and even more just.
The effects of these feelings have potentially life-altering effects. A young woman i know was so surprised and moved at the prayerful and generous material support extended towards her brother going through a serious illness that she has vowed to work to reach out and help others in the same way. If frequent bad deeds, small or large, trigger social hostility, cynicism, even violence towards others, frequent good deeds have a kind of ‘undoing’ effect on all this, raising the level of love, compassion and harmony around us.
What we call society is simply a manifestation of the choices we make. How our life turns out depends on the choices that individuals and groups make on a daily basis.

The writer is a Mumbai-based consultant, personal growth coach and workshop leader. E-mail: weave@vsnl.net