We convey more through our presence than through our words. An infant though doesn’t speak any particular language but still can and does convey about all her feelings and desires and requirements through her presence. Similarly when you get out of the plane and the air hostess greets you with have a pleasant day, you […]
Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop
It is quiet possible to show a willingness to remove your mask, or to be an excellent listener, but still take a self centred and utilitarian approach to conversation by putting your personal interests before anybody else. You might view communication as a way of getting what you want, meeting your own emotional needs, or […]
Love is a small lamp, but it is enough, in fact more than enough. You don’t need to carry a sun with you, just a small lamp is enough in the dark night. Of course it sheds light only a few feet ahead of you but that’s all that is needed : You walk those […]
With the imagination, you can create many things that are not real. Infact, you can only create things that are unreal. You may create wonderful illusions. You may create terrible hallucinations. they are your own creations and they are unreal. Meditation does not create anything at all. Meditation reveals. What does it reveal? that which […]
Culture has not been able to come into being because of the family. We think that the unit of our family is everything – if the family is there, then we have everything. And the sicknesses which the family has given birth to never occur to us. Family is the first imprisonment. If it is […]
We don’t want to see others happy. This can mean only one thing: that we are suicidal, that we are not even ready to see ourselves happy. We have invented the idea: “only when the whole world becomes unhappy can I be happy”. But how can one be happy when the whole world is unhappy? […]
How do we strip the alienating emotions of their power without becoming insensitive to the world, without draining life of its richness? If we merely consign them to the depths of the unconscious they will reemerge with renewed force at the first opportunity, continuing to strengthen the tendencies that perpetuate inner conflict. The ideal, contrarily […]
Most people have a spring in their step and put their best foot forward when they are in a new relationship (work or otherwise) but they stumble and loose their footing trying to maintain relationships over the long term. Realty soon sets in and one starts realising that the honeymoon phase is officially over. The […]
If you have been following the rule of “Keep smiling” then may be it’s the time you re-think and do a little less of that all time grinning. The researchers have found that smiling frequently may actually make people feel worse if they’re faking it. That is smiling while not feeling like smiling at all. […]
Most people have a spring in their step and put their best foot forward when they are in a new relationship (work or otherwise) but they stumble and loose their footing trying to maintain relationships over the long term. Realty soon sets in that honeymoon phase is officially over. The truth is, all relationships take […]