Silence
10th Oct, 2021 I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, “Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence. The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new […]
The Man Richer than Bill Gates
09th Oct, 2021 Someone once asked Bill Gates, “Have you met any person richer than you?”Gates replied, “yes, only one.Many years ago, I was at the New York airport. I read titles of newspapers there. I liked one of them and I wanted to buy it. But I didn’t have change (coin). So I abandoned […]
The Caring Child
08th Oct, 2021 Author and lecturer, Leo Buscaglia, once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.The winner was: A four-year-old child, whose next door neighbour was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his wife.Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy […]
Happy Navratri
07th Oct, 2021 The beginning of spring and the beginning of autumn are two very important junctions of climatic and solar influence. These two periods are taken as sacred opportunities for the worship of the Divine Mother. It represents celebration of Goddess Durga, the manifestation of Deity in the form of Shakti. Happy Navratras! The […]
The Joy of Giving
06th Oct, 2021 John D Rockfeller was once the richest man in the world. The first billionaire in the world. By age 25 he controlled one of the largest oil refineries in the US. By age 31 he had become the world’s largest oil refiner. By age 38 he commanded 90% of the oil refined […]
Be an Encourager
05th Oct, 2021 One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It […]
THE KISS PRINCIPLE
04th Oct, 2021 KISS, is an acronym for ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid.’ It is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960 coined by the late Kelly Johnson, who was the lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works, a place responsible for the S-71 Blackbird spy plane amongst many other notable achievements. The […]
Via Negativa
3rd Oct, 2021 When asked what it takes to win a Nobel prize, Francis Crick said, “Oh, it’s very simple. My secret has been I know what to ignore. Avoiding can be more important than finding.” I recently read somewhere that we spend the first half of our lives adding things, and the second half […]
Principles of the Mahatma
02nd Oct, 2021 Whether humanity will follow the law of love and Ahimsa, I do not know. But that need not disturb us. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.” “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice […]
The Secret of Money – How Much is Enough?
1st Oct, 2021 The tragedy dates to 1859, when around 450 passengers on the Royal Charter, returning from the Australian goldmines to England, drowned when their ship was wrecked off the north coast of Wales. What caused this shipwreck? Well, many of those on board were weighed down by the gold in their money belts […]