‘Create your own Destiny’
9th June 2025 A young chap went to a soothsayer to inquire about his future. The soothsayer drew two circles. One in white and the other in black. He then put a millipede in between the circles, saying “if the millipede crawls into the white circle, your future will be bright and very great, but […]
‘Sometimes….’
8th June 2025 I recently reread the wonderful poem by Robert Drake & it struck a chord. “Sometimes I feel I want to go back in time… Not to change things, but to feel a couple of things twice. Sometimes I wish I was a baby for a while… Not to be walked in the […]
‘Pray for others too’
7th June 2025 Always remember that our blessings are not ours alone, nor due to our prayers alone but the result of someone, somewhere praying for us. Just to illustrate, I shall like to share a true story someone shared with me. “There is a cafe near my house which is mostly full of customers […]
“And the whole world Prayed.”
6th June 2025 On April 11, 1970, the United States launched the Apollo 13 spacecraft as part of the Apollo space program meant to land on the Moon. But just two days into the mission, a heart-stopping outburst was relayed to Mission Control in Houston by the astronauts 200,000 miles away. The now-famous words were, […]
World Environment Day!
5th June 2025 “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit” ~Robert Louis Stevenson. World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June […]
“Kafka and the travelling doll”
4th June 2025 This is a beautiful story, about a fabled encounter by Prague-born author Franz Kafka. It was said that, one year before his death, Franz Kafka was walking through Steglitz Park, in Berlin which was his daily walking route, but that day, he took a different turn & he found a little girl […]
‘Closing Cycles by Paulo Coelho’
3rd June 2025 I recently came across this wonderful passage by Paulo Coelho, the author of the bestseller, ‘The Alchemist’ apart from his many other works. “One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning […]
Premeditatio Malorum
2nd June 2025 There is a wonderful 2000-year-old technique for weathering life’s Storms. In ancient Greece & Rome, many prominent thinkers subscribed to a philosophy called Stoicism. As part of this philosophy, they practiced a thought exercise called ‘Premeditatio Malorum,’ which means premeditation of evils. It simply means taking a moment to think through everything […]
Your Sacred Self
1st June 2025 This lovely parable is from “Your Sacred Self” by Dr. Wayne Dyer, and it is one of the best explanations I have come across on the theory of ‘after death’ and the concept of ‘God.’ In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other, “Do you believe in life after […]