Meditation.....isn't whiling away...

 In mindfulness one is not only restful

And Happy,

But 

Alert and Awake.

Meditation is not 

EVASION.

It is a 

SERENE

encounter with 

REALITY.

- Thich Naht Hanh,

Vietnamese Monk

TRUTH CEASES NOT...

However you much you deny the truth,

The TRUTH goes on existing.

- George Orwell

THE WAY TO SPEAK

The way you speak to others

can offer them

joy

happiness

self-confidence

hope

trust 

and 

enlightenment.

Mindful speaking is

a DEEP PRACTICE.

- THICH NAHT HANH

POETRY

Out of the quarrel with others 

we make rhetoric;

Out of the quarrel with ourselves

we make poetry.

- William Butler Yeats

True knowledge

The highest form of knowledge is empathy.

-Bill Bullard

Super Power : Man or Machine, who, which...

 People will come to love their oppression,

To adore technologies

That undo their capacities

To think.

- Aldous Huxley

Molehills try a Mountain

 When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign:

 that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

- Jonathan Swift

Right thing ....to Peace

 

When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. 

Do it again and again.

― Roy T. Bennett

Who is rich?

 Luxury is artificial poverty.

Simplicity is natural wealth.

- As Maha Periyava said it to IIT - M Director - Prof. Kamakoti

From Good to Better, that is winning

 Winning doesn't always mean being first.

Winning means

You are doing better than

You've ever done before.

- Bonnie Blair

Confucius is not confusing ...

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute,

The man who does not ask is a fool for life.

- Confucius

An Eco. alert

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchild may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? 

- David Attenborough 

Sukra Neethi

 Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

annadata-sukhino-bhavantu

There has never been, nor will ever be,  any gift equal to the gift of food. 

- Mahabharat - Anusasana Parva 13.63.-6

Little time... so much to do..

So much to watch. 

So much to read. 

So little time. 

- Stephen King

a home full of books... soulful home

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

உங்கள் வீட்டில் ஒரு நூலகத்தை அமைத்துக் கொள்வதன் மூலம் வீட்டிற்கு உயிர் கொடுக்கிறீர்கள். 

 - Cicero 

Who owns........owns what?

 We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

When we see land as a COMMUNITY to which we belong,

we may begin to use it with love and respect.

- Aldo Leopold

Better off..?

An arrogant person considers himself perfect.

This is the chief harm of arrogance.

It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

- Leo Tolstoy