Tuesday, 31 December 2013

For a Meaningful and Fruitful 2014


2014 is the Year of the Horse:
The spirit of the horse is about making unremitting efforts to improve oneself.
It is energetic, bright, warm-hearted, intelligent and able.

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Life as Conversation


Love?


Feeling That Which Is Home (1)



"Home is the one place in all this world 
where hearts are sure of each other. 
 It is the place of confidence. 
 It is the place where we tear off 
that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness 
which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, 
and where we pour out 
the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. 
 It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out 
without any sensation of awkwardness 
and without any dread of ridicule."  
(Frederick W. Robertson)

Sunday, 17 November 2013

Who Put Philippines in Pain? Nature? Or Humans?








Many disasters are presented as 'Acts of Nature". 
Are they...really?

Can You Step Into the Same Book Twice?


There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? -- Marina Tsvetaeva

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Two Ways To Go Nowhere !

“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.” ― Carlos Castaneda

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

One View on Frustration...


If You Plant Seeds Of...


If you plant honesty, you will reap trust.
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends.
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness.
If you plant perseverance, you will reap victory.
If you plant consideration, you will reap harmony.
If you plant hard work, you will reap success.
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation.
If you plant openness, you will reap intimacy.
If you plant patience, you will reap improvements.
If you plant faith, you will reap miracles.

But:

If you plant dishonesty, you will reap distrust.
If you plant selfishness, you will reap loneliness.
If you plant pride, you will reap destruction.
If you plant envy, you will reap trouble.
If you plant laziness, you will reap stagnation.
If you plant bitterness, you will reap isolation.
If you plant greed, you will reap loss.
If you plant gossip, you will reap enemies.
If you plant worries, you will reap wrinkles.
If you plant sin, you will reap guilt.

- Author Unknown -
(Source: See Here)

Monday, 11 November 2013

The Way of the Mountain


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
(On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest.)

Sunday, 10 November 2013

The River of Life


Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, 
and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature / Photo: Walking along holy Ganges river at Rishikesh: See Here)

Monday, 4 November 2013

Missing an Opportunity


That one brief instance 
of a great opportunity 
that can change your life...Sometimes 
lost forever !

(Photo Source: See Here)

Wandering and Searching


(Photo: Near Elephanta island/caves)

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Life's Choices


There are paths we take that have no futures.
And, there are futures we take that have no paths.
Our Choice
(Picture source: See Here)

Distinctions We Do Not Make


Who Am I Really?


Now and then, I wonder who I really am?
And, if the faces I wear are really masks?
(Source of photo: See Here )

Modern-Day Slaves


Are we responsible (unknowingly) in sustaining slavery in the modern world?
Source: See Here.

 (Adapted from Karl Marx, EPM 1844)