The story about the tiny frogs… There once was a bunch of tiny frogs, who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants.  The race began… Honestly no one in the crowd […]

A man went to a saint and asked, “What’s the value of life?” The saint gave him a stone and said, “Find out the value of this stone, but don’t sell it.”   The man took the stone to an orange seller and asked him what its cost would be. The orange seller saw the shiny stone and […]

All of us are searching for happiness, but the idea of what makes us happy differs from person to person. A lifetime of misery can come from chasing the wrong kind of happiness. We often chase things that we think will make us happy, but in turn we make everyone — including (eventually) ourselves — miserable.   A person, when he is […]

“When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down “Happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.” […]

Mastery over the situations in life, without a mastery over the mind, would be a vain dream. Since it is through the mind that we perceive the world and gain our experiences, ‘as our mind so is our world’. He who is a master of his mind, is a master of the world. To control […]

By Paul Coelho   A disciple went to Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav:    “I shall not continue with my studies of sacred texts,” he said. “I live in a small house with my brothers and parents, and never have the ideal conditions for concentrating on that which is important.”    Nachman pointed to the sun […]

To be mentally tough requires discipline. We all reach a critical point in our lives where our mental strength is tested. It could be in a job or in business or relationship. Whatever maybe the challenge, we need to be strong to see things through and take decisive action if we want to overcome it […]

Letting go and moving on should be a freeing and restorative experience. We need to deal with our emotions and face our fears about losing control. We need to gain control of ourselves and our responsibilities.    Hopefully, these words of wisdom will give us a new perspective on the issues that may torment us, […]

Arthur Ashe, the legendary tennis player who won Wimbledon championship, was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does God have to select you for such a deadly disease?”   To […]

Be like the flower and speak through your fragrance of good character and deeds.   Give without any prejudice and doer-ship notion…  …Like the flower gives fragrance to all without prejudice, utterly unconscious of its giving.   …Like the air, that gives breeze and oxygen to all without prejudice, utterly unconscious of its giving.   …Like […]