1) Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to discover joy and pleasure in simple and the most insignificant things.   2) Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.   […]

A young man called Ramaswamy died an untimely death. His parents, wife and nine year old son were crying bitterly sitting next to his dead body. They all happened to be disciples of a holy man whom they called ‘Guru-ji’.   When Guru-ji learnt that Ramaswamy had died, he came to visit the family. He entered the […]

On a certain occasion, during an elegant welcoming reception for the new Director of Marketing of an important London company, some of the wives of the other directors, who wanted to get acquainted with the spouse of the Director, asked her with some hesitation: “Does your spouse make you happy, truly happy?”   The husband, […]

I was shocked, confused, bewildered As I entered Heaven’s door, Not by the beauty of it all, Nor the lights or its decor But it was the folks in Heaven Who made me sputter and gasp — The thieves, the liars, the sinners, The alcoholics and the trash   There stood the kid from seventh […]

Once Buddha was going from one town to another town. A few of his followers were also with him. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that […]

In Washington, DC, at a Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007 this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.   After 3 minutes: A middle-aged man noticed that there was […]

Pencil: “I’m sorry….” Eraser: “For what? You didn’t do anything wrong.”   Pencil: “I’m sorry because you get hurt because of me. Whenever I make a mistake, you’re always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.”   Eraser: […]

Maturity Takes Time:   It is an accepted fact that it takes a person many years to understand and gain wisdom, but it does not mean anything. The maturity required for the wisdom to take place — purity of the mind (antahkarana shuddhi) — has to be gained and there is no hurry. Hurrying it […]

Some minds are like concrete,  Thoroughly mixed up and  Permanently set.  *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*     “Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” ~ Sir James Dewar *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*   He, who angers you, controls you!  *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*     Peace starts with a smile.   *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*     Opportunity may knock Once, but temptation bangs on our door forever.  […]

No point using limited life to chase unlimited wealth. No point earning so much money we cannot live to spend it, unless we decide to give it all away in charity before death. If we don’t spend it, we leave it for our relatives to fight over it. Money that we have does not belong […]