Tag Archives: happy

Busy is the New Stupid

“Busy is the new Stupid” – Warren Buffet He said in a conversation with Bill Gates about time. Being crazy busy has become a badge of honour and a message to your colleagues and friends that you must be very, very successful.  WRONG!!!! It has been found that the most productive and successful people, we […]

Life beyond death

When someone dies, we say, “This person is no more.” That is not true. The person is no more the way you know them, but they still very much exist. – Sadhguru How beautifully Sadhguru has encapsulated death, “This body is a piece of Earth that we have slowly picked up. Whatever we have picked up […]

How to stay motivated in a demotivating atmosphere?

How to stay motivated in a demotivating atmosphere?  Is the atmosphere motivating or demotivating?  You need to evaluate your atmosphere yourself! Remaining motivated is key to your survival and well-being. Motivation is the key to all your creativity, aspirations, goals, purpose, and all good things. The moment this feeling seep in, everything falls into place. […]

Are we running on a hedonic treadmill?

All of us know about the treadmill, as we have used it at some or other point in our lives to shed that excess baggage (read weight), acquired over a period of time. So, when that excess baggage is shed, we are happy, we stop using it. Now that excess baggage returns, we become unhappy […]

Are we stuck in “Thank God, it’s Friday” syndrome?

“When I was 5 years old, my mom 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.” […]

Living Life Inside Out

Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari We are naturally drawn outside as all the doors of our sense preceptors are opened to the external! So much of our life energy is spent fixing the external things of life. We struggle to change the outside for our senses drive us to the world outside, but when we draw our consciousness […]

The Whole Universe Listens to Our Self-Talk

By Shuddhanandaa Brahamchari Last week I wrote about listening body. This week I give you another dimension is to listen to our minds. As long as we listen to the conversations of our mind we are restless. But our practice of contemplation and meditation gradually takes us into the state of awareness of our inner […]