Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop

Digital technology can help channel and spread Empathy

No amount of tweeting could help the Occupy Movement clarify their very general political view, develop their leadership capacity and strategy, or maintain the passion of their supporters over a prolonged period. All these typically require face to face meeting and the hard, time-consuming work of collective organising.

Most people say I Love you in three months to their partner

he most common length of time people waited was three months with an impressive 22%. As many as 14% admitted to saying it after six months, while 13% uttered those all important words within the first month. Not everyone is as reserved when it comes to expressing how they feel though, with 3% saying “I love you“ in as little as a week. At the more cautious end, 3% said it in nine months, 6% in a year and 2% in a staggerng two years.

Hopelessness disappears from the life who has heard the inner music

Hope means that now, where ever he is in life, the seeker sees a ray of hope. If the night is very dark, he sees that the dawning of the day is closed. If the skies are full of black clouds he says, ” How wonderful the flash of lightening will be!” If suffering comes to him he says, “Let us wait a  little; happiness must be just around the corner.

Can you change the world from your living room?

Couple reading book in living room with laptop on table in cozy living room

Highly emphatic people recognise that by words and pictures offer only second hand experience rather than the real thing, they deserve to be taken seriously, and not dismiss as little more than ‘ empathy lite.’ Why? because art has a long and distinguish history, going back centuries, of kicking our empathic selves into action, be it for the struggle against child labour or the anti war movement.

Meditation and Medicine both come from the same root

The word ” Meditation” and ” Medicine” come from the same root. Medicine means that which heals the physical and meditation means that which heals the spiritual. Both are healing powers. Another thing to be remembered : the world ” Healing” and the word ” Whole” also come from the same root. To be healed […]