Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • The gift inside — Life Packaging

    Grandmother always told me that life is too small to learn from committing all the mistakes, so we learn from others mistakes and it would leave us free to commit our own.  Something very similar was told by husband’s Guruji, of the audhoot ashram kurukshetra—we do need to connect with people to harness life experiences.…

  • Releasing guilt

    Permission to forgive ourselves At the Landmark forum, we come across lot of stuff. But usually what we are dealing with is grudges not let gone, and wrongs we have not forgiven.  Both wrongs done to us, and we have done to others, still worse is our inability to forgive ourselves. So many of us…

  • Prayer and meditation.

    Prayer and Meditation. Many a times I have wondered what is the difference between prayer and meditation. After all both offered a connect with the divine.  I out  started observing myself, the words I used, the way I thought and felt during prayer I realized I used language to express myself, my inner most thoughts…

  • Recognizing happiness

    Recognizing Happiness, My little cousin Rohini, had seen the television coke advertisement and her concept of enjoy became opening the coke bottle and drinking it. Not sipping it through a straw mind you but guzzling the bottle down. Enjoyment Happiness, would this not mean different things to different people? The journey of personal growth particularly…

  • Dawn the moments of conscious creation.

    “It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life for me And I’m feeling good” ― Leslie Bricusse, The Leslie Bricusse Songbook Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you are about rush off on an early adventure or business, but…

  • Future is noo.

    Three things I  plan to do in the future, but want to do now. Que sara sara… whatever will be will be, the future is not ours to see, que sara sara. This used to be one of favourite humming tunes. It still is. But if I could break out of my comfort zone and…