January 18, 2012
Happiness
We don’t find happiness by looking within. We go outside and immerse in the world. We are called to a higher purpose by the inescapable circumstances that are laid out on our path. It’s our daily struggles that define us and bring out the best in us, and this lays down the foundation to continuously find fulfillment in what we do even when times get tough.
Happiness comes from the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, and what the world needs. We’ve been told time and again to keep finding the first. Our schools helped developed the second. It’s time we put more thought on the third.
January 8, 2012
Why I am in love with Chitra Divakaruni
- …Promises may be fulfilled, yes, but not always in the way we imagine…
- So little. And yet, for my starved heart, so much.
- That’s how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.
- O, my Anju, you who have never learned to bend with the wind, what will happen if you marry the wrong kind of man?
- Love happens and so do miracles.
- This is how love makes cowards of us.
- The house of marriage has many locked rooms.
- Love’s grand passion was snatched from me, yes, but perhaps there could still be quiet affections in my life.
- You must make your own happiness … You must be wise enough to recognize it when it comes. And if it doesn’t come in spite of all your efforts, you must do something about that as well.
- But silence has its own insidious power.
- Live for yourself this one time, my heart sings.
- Because a child is yours in a way even the most solicitous lover can never be.
- It’s love that makes a relationship, as much as blood.
And this is from one book only. Yes, I love Chitra Divakaruni.
December 25, 2011
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon
December 2, 2011
“Be mature about it when you give something up. The immature spiritual person will want everyone else to give it up, too. The spiritually mature person quietly surrenders it because it is simply his personal choice and then goes on with his life. “
Gurudeva
October 27, 2011
#38
-You know, when I grow up I’ll be Ultraman. And I’ll fly up in the sky!
-Cool. Can you take me with you?
-But…but…you’ll be old already.
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