Early morning walk
Marigolds at sunrise
Flowers greet morning
Category: think
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relationships are not made of glass
I’ve often heard that relationships are like glass. Once broken, they can never be mended again…
I believe this is true only if our hearts are as brittle as glass! But thats certainly not the case! 😛 Some sound advice from the good doc. I really appreaciate the courage and integrity of the lady who asked the question to which he answered below.
Paradoxically, the surest route to forgiveness and trust is to not dwell on trying to forgive and trust. Heal your heart first, and then the forgiveness happens automatically. RT: @Deepak_Chopra: RT @mallikachopra Can you regain trust after a major betrayal? http://bit.ly/IjyF0
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this site is merely a journal
I have maintained diary many times since young age. Few years back I made my diary public. But it still was only a diary – a journal – a collection of my ideas. Idea of ‘blogging’ came later where people write for others. So my site became viewed as a ‘blog’.
At some point in time I used to imagine its of value to others. I used to email links to all my friends and family “look, I wrote this/came across this – pls read it at leisure”. Over time I realised its of minimal/neglibile value to anyone, its just another ‘blog’. In the internet explosion, there are countless sites far more worth the time than this site.
Still, same intention is still there but its my journal written for my own memory and reference!
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independence day – not just another holiday any more
This was a highlight in a mail from Today’s Kagga, which I feel is indeed true… Consider this movement for example…
The Design for Giving Challenge is a contest applicable for kids between 10 to 13.. Interview with school kids…
This video and movement reminds me of a really thought provoking movie…
A social studies teacher asks some tough questions in his first class: “What does the world expect of you?” Someone answers “Nothing” – yes absolutely correct, the world will get on without us! 🙂 And then he further questions that when the students are through with school after graduation and face the world, What if the world turns out to be a big disappointment?
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cleanliness is next to happiness
In our highly intellectual society, where we usually feel especially as we grow older and older, that “I’ve seen life”. Everything relevant is kind of figured out, or can be googled for 😉 Practically speaking, there’s not much more to learn that one wants to spare time for! So there’s barely any scope to in the first place acknowledge that indeed one’s mind does have a bit of pollution. To acknowledge this consciously takes a rare kind of honesty.
Important to note that nothing abstractly philosophical meant by ‘pollution’! Its simply a metaphor for distorted perspective of reality – a colored world-view… thinging!
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what time is it?
A forwarded mail from Tiger Pran…
> At 12hr 34 minutes and 56 seconds on the
> 7th of August this year (2009),
> the time and date will be
> 12:34:56 07/08/09
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> This will never happen in your life again !
> Amaze your friends .
> Be the first 2 tell themReminds me once in a way a friend and me used to watch our digital wristwatch during schooldays at special number sequences like this! But this is just amazing unbeatable 🙂
One idea that occurred is that time right now happens to be 12:34:44: 30/06/09 (more…)
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news: buddha blasphemy?!
Times of India had this right up on the front page, but later removed it: Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes
PATNA: Sight-seeing in Switzerland does not leave a vacationer horrified, but Patna’s Prabhat Choudhary, his wife and daughter were shocked to see a Lord Buddha statue garlanded with a pair of shoes at a footwear shop in Geneva.
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the joy of receiving
The following is an article from Speaking Tree (center page of Times of India, one of the few things imo worth reading in the newspaper 😉 )
Many times, we hesitate to receive in the name of swaabhimaana/self-respect. I think there is a very barely noticeable thin line between true self-respect, and an egoistic emotional barrier.
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FW: The Perfect Heart ….
Forwarded by Suresh Panje. One of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever heard in my life.
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One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.
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photo of the day
Prashanth’s photoblog Payaniga is usually pretty good and I’ve often used the monthly calendar wallpapers that he shares. But this particular picture simply left me breathless… 8)
UG‘s quote comes to mind…
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
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