When I surrendered my ego, I was no more searching for someone to blame for my pain. I asked myself questions like ‘what is this teaching you, what is the purpose here, what’s the lesson’? With surrender, I got rid of self pity. Feeling sorry for myself makes it worse and NEVER better. That is how I healed myself.”
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Don’t be MOST people
The beauty about searching for inspiration is, you often find enough. Today morning Aditya Jhunjhunwala, my colleague at Life School, sent me an amazing blog post written by Bryce Roberts ( https://medium.com/@bryce ).
To Know it all….
Just last evening, with my ‘eyes’ open, I got irritated at someone. Now, I realize, it was not her. It was ME. I too will practice what the monk did. Waiting for a bump from another boat (with excitement). After all, implementation of knowledge is one of the greatest source of joy, isn’t it?
Monk’ey or Monk
Some stories changes lives. This one did that to me. One suggestion. Take out about 45 seconds of undisturbed time to read this. And read it s l o w……..
Start the day by making your bed.
Start every day by making your bed, McRaven advised. If you do so, it will mean that the first thing you do in the morning is to accomplish something.
Sihpromaytum (Sip-row-may-tum) ?@#!+
The meaning of the title made me smile. I still am. It means…”What initially appears to be a curse, turns out to be a blessing!” Never knew there was a word for that !!!
Dhyann and Me
I truly believe that the greatest gift I can give to my child is to gently help him to develop the ability to delay the urge to satisfy immediate pleasures.
Are you sleeping?
We are still sleeping if we haven’t found the purpose of our now, yet.
How is this for our ego?
I believe, it is time for us to dump our exaggerated egos and become more humble. It is time for us to stop fighting wanting to prove ‘I am right and you are wrong’. I think it is time for us to slow down for a while, fill our hearts with gratitude, fill our eyes with amazement, bow down on our knees and say in wonder, ‘Thank you dearest life for flowing through us.’
Check list for ‘peace’
In a recent seminar, ‘What’s your Excuse?’ when the participants were asked, “If they could chose any one thing they MUST have….at any cost…what would it be?”, the most popular choice was “PEACE”.