Marigolds at sunrise

Found this in an old mail from last year while searching for something else, but thought its nice to post here… Ramakrishna told about a corridor in a house, where there were two doors at the end. On one of the doors there was written “heaven”, on the other “lecture about heaven”. When you looked…

I’ve always found a lot of benefit in open, honest communication. This was a really nice article that highlights the advantages and definitely something worth attempting… Living With Radical Honesty, Brad Blanton Monday, July 28, 2008 5:30 AM I learned that the primary cause of most human stress, the primary cause of most conflict between…

If there’s one thing I can think of to improve Indian culture it is this – and I believe it should be taught right in school itself, or atleast during the degree level of education…

If someone close to us is sharing his grievance with us, are there different ways to empathize? We can take the side of this person, really sympathize with him (or her), console and comfort her agreeing that the situation is so shockingly bad, what has the terrible world come to, and that offender who caused…

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…