Loving some one is considering him or her of value. Any thing that we consider of value, we spend time with it. Any thing that we spend time with, we start to know it more. The more we know it more, the more we begin to accept it. If you say I love my children, only ask how much time I do spend with them. Do not let it drop to less than full 5 hours of quality time with your kids and that is for working fathers and mothers.
We have a capability so unique that it lets us stand apart from the rest of animal kingdom. We can imagine ourselves as separate from our thoughts. Try doing this. Imagine, that you are watching yourself from the other corner of the room. Now further imagine that you are watching your imagined “” image”” from outside the window. You are watching yourself watching yourself.
We two went to Pir Sohawa. It was a climb up hill. It was sunny and yet crisp. The early hours sun of the day was rising and air was starting to warm up. We left the restaurants and the rush spots behind and kept on moving on the other side of the hill where silence resided. On a lonely clearing on grass and a few stones around, we sat there. Tired. Exhausted. We smiled at each other and had water and then citrus from my shoulder bag since I
There are nearly 6.98 billion people living on Earth as of now. To this date, how many people have been born and died can be another staggering number, perhaps several times more than that. The question is why you were born as an another soul? Why did the invisible hand sent you to this blue planet? You can call it God, Jesus, Allah, Raam, Om or whatever who sent you here but the fact is you were sent here and you would leave this place at some point in time.
Being able to truly love ourselves involves delaying gratification. This can be best explained by the experiment conducted with children aged 4 to 6 at Stanford University in 1972. They were offered marshmallows on a condition. Those children who would eat it right now, would get only one. Those who would chose to eat 30 minutes later would get two. Those who would choose to eat after an hour would get three. Majority of the children chose to eat now. A little less opted for half an hour wait and
One of the disciples of Buddha and a great Master of Zen, was asked what was it that calmness radiated out of him and he was always full of joy. Replied he:” I eat rice when I am hungry and I sleep when I feel sleepy ! ” “We all do that as well”, his student said. “No, No.. when you eat , you think of this and that; and when you sleep you think of this and that.” “When I sleep, I sleep and when I eat I only