Sister Stanislaus Kennedy shared these thoughts in her book “Now Is The Time“, and I feel she is reminding us that all we have is now: yesterday is gone, tomorrow does not exist, and both are illusions of our own minds:
“Everything has its time, and that time is always now. The time is always now [...]

Seth Godin wrote in his latest book “Linchpin” of the gift of emotional labor, and this is the extract:
“When you do emotional labor, you benefit. Not just the company, not just your boss, but you. The act of giving someone a smile, of connecting to a human, of taking initiative, of being surprising, of being [...]

Henry David Thoreau wrote the following thoughts during the period of 1845-47 when he lived in the woods, and I feel it speaks so aptly about the way we live our lives in modern society:
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to [...]

I came across these thoughts on Philanthropy by Henry David Thoreau in his book “Walden” and I feel it would be good to share them with you.
“A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull [...]

We have been so conditioned to live a life of achievements – striving for a higher education, a job promotion, a bigger house, a personal best in everything we do, that we may have acquired a misplaced view of life. This relentless pursuit of sorts has been ingrained in most of us that we have [...]

This statement: “Allow everything to be as it is” which came from a few enlightened beings, resonates very strongly in me that it made me reflect over how often we have a tendency to want to have control over almost everything in life. And this ‘control freak’ in us is often the cause of much [...]

Dressing up and looking good is fun and to some extent, it appeals to the vanity in us, however, I could never comprehend the incessant demand for certain dress codes at work and even at some social functions.
Let me share some thoughts taken from Henry David Thoreau in his book “Walden”:
“I say, beware of all [...]

I came across these thoughts from David Kundtz:
Mother Theresa once said: “God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God  is the friend of silence.” For Mother Theresa, activity did not lead to God, silence did; but it is also obvious that the God she encountered in silence led her to remarkable activity.
This is a [...]

This is an extract from OSHO:
“One of the great things to be learned is listening. Listen very silently. Just don’t listen indifferently. Don’t listen as if you want others to stop talking and you are just listening to be polite because they are your friends. In that case it is better to tell them not [...]

I am certain many of us have experienced the ‘feeling of being sapped of energy’ after encounters with some people – be it at work or social gatherings or even at home. Whenever that happened, it could be that we have been ‘dragged’ into an environment of negative energies, and/or these people are basically ‘takers’ [...]