Thursday, September 4, 2025

Education

If education doesn't teach you to resist injustice, 
IT HAS FAILED.

- John DeWey

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Super 5 to care for

Thoughts 
Words
Actions
Habits
Character 

Above trigger destiny.

"Be watchful of all these,
For thoughts shape words,
Words forge actions,
Actions form habits,
Habits build character,
Character carves destiny".

- Lao Tzu 

This resonates with a Brihadaranyak Upanishad verse:

"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny."

Thursday, August 28, 2025

From Roots

All things must come to the soul from its roots, where it is planted.

- St. Teresa of Avila, Spain 

Sunday, August 24, 2025

सत्यमेव जयते

सत्यमेव जयते


"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gai :
The one brings pain for moment,
The other for all time.

- Chilon of Sparta

सत्यमेव जयते from Mundaka Upanishad meaning Truth alone triumphs.


Sunday, July 27, 2025

your best speech

Speak when you are angry,
And you will make
The best speech 
You will ever regret.

- Ambrose Bierce

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Power of PATIENCE

There is no evil like hatred,
And no fortitude like PATIENCE.
Thus I should strive in various ways 
To Meditate on PATIENCE.

- verse two
Book 📚 by Shanthi Deva titled,
'A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life.'.

Dalai Lama 's favourite reference is to the verses in above book.

deadly anger

Whatever wholesome deeds,
Such as venerating the buddhas 
and (practising) generosity,
That have been amassed 
Over a thousand aeons,
Will all be destroyed 
In one moment of 
ANGER.

- first verse
A Guide to Bodhisattva Way of Life.

Useless worries

If a problem is fixable,
If a situation is such that you can do something about it,
Then there is no need to worry.
If it's not fixable,
Then there is no help in worrying.
There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

- The XIV Dalai Lama 

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

lingos

When you learn a language,
You also learn
To be 
Open-minded,
Liberal,
Tolerant,
Kind
And 
Considerate
Towards all mankind.

- Mouloud Benzadi

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

NATURAL, THE REAL STATE

 If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.


- Ramana Maharshi

DHYAN: ....The First priority

 A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite” 


– Roy Eugene Davis

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Live on less than you make...

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make,
So you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

- Dave Ramsey