Perspectives...

So many people have lost so much in their lives, So many have so much,  But yet they only see the loss in their lives Who is better off? Who greives for the life that has forever been altered, Or who greives because he is a victim in all situations despite the fullness of life? 

“I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ‘life.” Maya Angelou I spent so much time trying to figure out what to do. And it’s important to do that. Finding fulfilling work can change our life. And we need to do whatever it takes as we go through life to find the profession which resonates with us. But even when you find that fulfillment in a job, sustaining that fulfilling feeling can seem like a struggle. Most of your working life will be spent worrying about something that happened at work.  Our workplaces become the center where we leave a lot of our own energy behind. We feel depleted when we return back home and try to get back our lost energy from people at home - draining them in the process. Work becomes an enormously serious place and we can attribute a lot of our premature gray hair to work and the psychosomatic as well as physical changes it brings about by virtue of the stress and anxiety it brings about in our lives. What if I tol...

My consulting career has been a surprising friend in my spiritual path. A lot of my writing has happened at 30,000ft above ground. While I have been the most ungrounded, I felt the most grounded. Those moments of realization when I am between the clouds could have only been put to paper as I couldn't shame them with spoken words. These moments are random but not so random in nature. I suddenly realize things that were unresolved for months or get an answer for a troubling question. But more importantly, these divine moments sometimes just provide a broad perspective on my whole life and provides me more pointers to life's big questions.I have cried for no reason during these flights when I have felt moments of complete alignment and had a small glimpse of what I really am:). I wrote the words below during one of these flights from Chicago to Iowa and in many ways everything made sense for the time that I put pen to paper to write these words. As we traverse through life a...

"Did I do ok?" "You are asking me questions and listening to my answers. I guess you did ok." "What is life all about?" "Magnificience. Reach for magnificience. Look around me. We are all love, its all love."

Our journey to wholeness is bittersweet in the knowingness that we are already whole,  We seek, when the seeker and God are both within, We have questions when the answers all lie in that space behind our eyes.  What are we heading to? Knowing what we already know, seeking what we already have? May be it is walking the talk of the divinty we can be,  May be it is doing nothing at all....

Meditation has an overall bad rep. The benefits are widely known but taking out time seems like an arduous task. Most people have a perfect picture of what meditating looks like with someone sitting in a really quiet place, with legs crossed for a good 30 minutes or more. Let's face it, we are all busy and setting aside a block of time may not be always doable. But meditation does not have to be an activity that requires a lot of effort. It is a state of mind and it can be experienced through the day with simple practices. Little bit goes a long way... 1. Make your morning beverage in silence: The brewing of the morning chai is my meditation. I don't hurry through it and participate in the process with attention to each step of the brewing process. Refraining from checking emails or thinking about the morning meetings, the 15 minutes spent in the simple activity of brewing tea sets the calm for my entire day. Whatever your morning beverage of choice is - coffee, tea ...

I find myself in the silence of your breath, In the rising and falling of it I find myself in the words you never speak I find myself when my fingers run through your hair, When time has no meaning left Neither does my name, nor my body I find myself in the sparkle of your eyes In that deep awareness within us that knows I find myself in the space you create for me I find myself in love...