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2010 in review
The stats helpers at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1900…
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Year end Thank you
Best wishes to all the readers who make this blog, one of the most fun experiences for me in the year 2010. The number of visitors to the blog posts are gradually increasing reaching an average of over 400 per month for the past three months in a row! Let us continue to grow this level of acitivity…
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Gross Daily Happiness
Sankara took the parrot to a wide open space and opened the cage. True to its nature, the parrot took flight and soared high towards the mountain top. Then he told the man, “Since you are far more evolved than the parrot, you need not wait for long. Let go of your self imposed shackles…
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New Year Resolution
Whatever the New Year resolution let us not make it as one more opportunity to beat up on ourselves. Focusing on all that is not good or not going well is not a great place to start. Remember about “smelling the roses”? Living well requires a continuous and on-going assessment. It is like pacing yourself…
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On giving and receiving gifts:
The anticipation of the moment, the twinkle in the eye with excitement and the thrill that a child experiences and the innocence of joy at every item in the stocking stuffer and the memories they create are the true value and joy of giving gifts at the holiday time. Such innocent pleasures of giving gifts…
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On clearing the leaves!
Now, I am all finished. The leaves are in their barrels to be disposed off. How to dispose off these bags is a matter for another moment. The pile of leaves on the ground are no longer staring at me. That is the success for this morning! It deserves recognition, like smelling the rose on…
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Success: a matter of perception!
Success is the feeling at heart to enjoy and cherish what we have on hand, while putting the mind to work on the next unfilled need.
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Two News Items
Gnana Yoga: Standing apart from both these events – since we are not personally or emotionally connected with either – we are able to see the two situations in which these two events took place, with all of the details and the components.We are the witness to these details and yet, they do not overwhelm…
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How much do we really know?
There is an old proverb: What we really know is only a hand full; what we need to know and learn about, is as large as the world! I was reminded of this adage recently, when my friend sent me the following two episodes in the life of a 20th century saint in India.
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Selfish and Self-less:
We are generally familiar with the negative view on selfishness. In this school of thought, “selfishness” is considered as enriching one self, perhaps at the cost of others and hence it is a negative, and hence to be refrained from. In the other school of thought “selfishness” is seen as a stepping stone, to use…
Spirituality In Practice 