I’ve known for a while now that I am a very efficient Fault-Finding-Machine! An FFM, in short. In a flash, I find faults with colleagues, family members, friends, acquaintances, call…
Category: Mind and Body Contemplations
The Sweet Spot Between Self-Improvement and Action
Applying our learning is its true value.
Applying our learning is its true value. Many of us are improving our emotions, intellect, body or spirituality through meditation, yoga, reading, workshops, retreats, prayer, gymming, diets and so on.…
Meditate to Take Your Brain to the Gym!
How meditation strengthens our mind and self-control.
The Prefrontal Cortex is the most evolved part of our brain. It exerts influence on the involuntary and emotional functions emanating in deeper parts of the brain, in the limbic…
Moments of Living Large
Have you experienced such sublime moments?
I feel largest in life in those occasional interludes in which an instant in time seems like an eternity, and the moment has limitless possibilities I can influence, marked by…
Restaurant outdoor verandah overlooking a beautiful bay dotted with sail boats (a scene from a Hindi movie)
Blue waters. Nice waters. Restaurant at a height. Large glass-fronted indoor in dark wood. Aproned waiters. Nice classy place. Large outdoor area with a nice white low balustrade. Views to…
Is silence the highest choice?
I have such a need to express myself, in speech and in writing. Wherefrom does this urge come? I can see a large part of it comes from the needs…
Cottage with a smoking chimney on a green slope
Small cottage with a garden. Sitting outside. Dusk. Clearing on a gentle slope with woods in the distance. One more cottage down the slope. Chimney smoking wisps trailing away to…
Bumper Sticker Slogan Ideas
These are some bumper stickers slogans that flashed in my mind on encountering the animals who pass for drivers on our roads 🙂 Proud to be Indian, proud to follow…
View from the garden of a Swiss mountainside house
In the garden looking down the valley at the lakeside promenade. Winding roads coming up the steep mountainside and past the house. Flowering shrubs lining the outer edge of the…
Vignettes of the mind – Standing in the open door of a train watching the countryside roll past
India, decades ago. First Class carriage. Teen me. Leaning back against the thick windowed steel door ajar at the end of the bogie. Wind in my hair. Sideward hand holding the…