I find that detachment is the very underpinning of a loving, creative, involved, enthusiastic, committed and thriving life. It enables true, deep feeling and connection. A paradox, you say? Detachment, simply put, is the relinquishing of attachment to expectations and outcome. (Yes, The Bhagvad Gita said it: karmanyevaadhikaaraste, na phaleshu kadaachana.) It is the ability to be the observer of the [...]
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How Detachment Makes Me More Loving and Creative
Posted in connectedness, consciousness, creativity, harmony, life lessons, love, tagged creativity, detachment, Love, thriving life on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Harmony: Surrender your error (and it is no longer one)!
Posted in creativity, harmony, life lessons, spirituality, tagged Harmony, learning from failure, surrender your errors on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been writing about the different facets of harmony in the year 2012. A key question that can come up often with regard to harmonious living is: What do I do with my errors? I’ve known for a while that one cannot have compassion towards the world if one doesn’t have it for oneself; so, holding forgiveness for one’s own errors [...]
Musings of an artist in labor
Posted in creativity, entrepreneurship, inspiration, life lessons, tagged creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thrive!, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life on October 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My second book, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, is about three weeks away from release, and right now, I am experiencing some pre-labor pains. Along with emotions ranging from anxiety and pains to thrill and joy, there is that ripe readiness of something ready to burst forth from the womb, unable to remain in utero any longer, because it [...]
Respect, don’t Fear
Posted in creativity, inspiration, learning, life lessons, love, music, psychology, relationships, spirituality, tagged fear, love is not fear, respect, respect not fear on July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I am writing after a rather long hiatus, and this is because I am hard at work on my second book, Thrive! A Love Story with Life. In it, in the chapter Compassion, is an essay titled Love is not Fear. What about love’s close partner ‘respect’? Can respect exist where there is fear? At this time last [...]
The art of receiving
Posted in creativity, life lessons, love, relationships, spirituality, tagged Giving, Gratitude, receiving love, the art of receiving, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life on September 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
[Adaptated into an essay in my book Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, published Nov 1, 2011.] Much has been said about the “art of giving” and its many virtues. But over the course of a couple of years, I’ve had insights about the “art of receiving,” which have significantly transformed my worldview, interactions and relationships. Terms such as “give [...]
Time and Money
Posted in childhood memories, life lessons, relationships, tagged Money, Time, Time and Money, What is Time on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I was little, I often heard my father say, “Remember, time is money.” So the idea that my time is supremely valuable, was planted as a core value rather early in life. The superimposition of “don’t be penny-wise and pound-foolish” meant that I also learned that spending time on minutiae doesn’t help to “save” [...]
Quality Time: Fulfillment, not Busyness
Posted in business, career, creativity, entrepreneurship, life lessons, tagged creativity, Fulfillment, Hugh McLeod, not busyness, Quality Time on August 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In a recent exchange with two close friends after a late-evening music-practice session, I said something about needing a solid night’s rest these days because of how full my time is … without a single purposeless moment (well, almost). Before I could quite finish my thought, one of them jumped to challenge me: “Then how is that different from the rat-race of [...]
