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 [...]
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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 »
Shared earth and shared oxygen
Posted in existential revelations, psychology, spirituality, tagged career and personal life are connected, Connectedness, integrity, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, unity, wholeness on October 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
[Adaptated into an essay in my book Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, published Nov 1, 2011.] A common means of survival at which humans become adept over time, is the compartmentalization of various aspects of life into separate containers. I like to call this the “potted plants” way of living. We believe that by organizing and ordering our [...]
Everybody has to grow up!
Posted in life lessons, psychology, relationships on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, I had a brief Facebook exchange with a favorite cousin, with whom I grew up in close quarters in New Delhi, but hadn’t spoken to or seen in years. The last I recalled, her two children, a girl and a boy, were very little. (I had seen the girl as a newborn, but I had already moved [...]
Simple Living, High Thinking
Posted in childhood memories, culture, humor, psychology, relationships, transculturalism, tagged Joanne Heim, Living Simply on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This holiday season I can’t help but chuckle again at a conversation a good friend of mine (let’s call her Devi) and I had earlier this year, comparing notes on our respective upbringings with specific regard to things, stuff, gifts … you know, materialism. She was telling me how her mother had one very principled and very [...]
Arjuna and the Fish Eye: the fallacy of being over-informed, hyper-busy and multi-tasking
Posted in business, career, childhood memories, consciousness, creativity, culture, entrepreneurship, inspiration, life lessons, psychology, spirituality, tagged Freedom from the Known, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life on December 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
[Adaptated into an essay in my book Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, published Nov 1, 2011. This is also one of my most-read posts!] Here’s a little story from the Hindu epic Mahabharata, about the renowned archery master Dronacharya training the Pandava brothers in the art and skill of archery. Once, when the five [...]
The cost of being right
Posted in business, existential revelations, life lessons, politics, psychology, relationships, spirituality, tagged Judy J Johnson, Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, What's so wrong with being absolutely right on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Adaptated into an essay in my book Thrive! Falling in Love with Life, published Nov 1, 2011.] Nearly three years ago, when I still worked at a large global design firm, a new employee was assigned to the desk next to me in the open-office system. She was an interior designer with “several years of experience,” had come [...]
Creating a life beyond migraines
Posted in health, life lessons, psychology, science, spirituality, tagged Carolyn Bernstein, The Migraine Brain on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having experienced debilitating migraines for 19 years, the journey from surviving with them to thriving inspite of them has been long, arduous, insightful and ultimately, joyful. I have accessed science, art and spirituality to first understand my migraines, then find acceptance for them, and finally, move towards transcending them. To share my discoveries, I have [...]
