Category: epiphany
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Over achieving and over reaching.
Over achieving and over reaching All this while I had my daughters as an excuse for my falling short of my own expectations. Now that both have left home, I sense the imbalance me. There is this great urge to be best in something. But the story I have been telling myself is that I…
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Trusting divine guidance.
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi Trusting divine guidance would mean accepting a certain amount of trial and error. Actually this was brought to me by Cheryl in one of her talks. I had been wishing for relocation…
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The tools we have.
At the landmark coach Gopal Sarma used to say, that unless we get down to action, all our skills, and talents are but thoughting that is thoughts that cause stagnation and not growth. “You have a destiny and a purpose that no one else on this earth can fulfil…and you have travelled a unique journey…
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Living for ourselves
“Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.” ― Lana Del Rey I am currently re-reading Belinda Viegas book Cry of the Kingfisher where she talks of three Goan…
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Mindful Walking
When I’m in turmoil, when I can’t think, when I’m exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It’s just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.” ― Jim…
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Missing an old habit.
When I was thirteen my father gave me an alarm clock, it has is with since then. It has been fixed for 5 am and I have been waking to the alarm. The knowledge that the alarm will not let me over sleep allowed me sound sleep. With the advent of the mobile, even the…
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