Void = Emptiness = Purity

You need to empty yourself sometimes to see what life fills you with.

Coz nature abhors a vacuum or so they say.

If a cup is too full....there is no more room to pour tea. 

Fullness= bloatedness = baggage 

On your journey in life...travel LIGHT !

Coz what is light is also fresh...clear and mindful. 

Dream

Dreaming a little wonderful delightful dream

Keeps alive the child in you
Dreams are such joy
Yet even in our dreams we have become so practical...so constrained
As though we are too scared to dream

 If our dreams were unconstrained ...what an awesome world it would be!
Dream for those who've given up...For those who never tried

Breathe...

'Breathe'  Inspired by - http://zenhabits.net/breathe/

Coz it is...

Simple, effective, essential and extremely relaxing !
Works a 100% when you want to banish an annoying though that won't just go away
Simply diffuse it with a deep breath innnnn and outttttttttt.....

Need I say more :)

5 Mins

Each Day...

I spend 8 hours (sometimes even more) at work
Another 8 asleep
An hour talking to my friends and family
A couple more hours with my spouse
If i count the mins spent talking to the vegetable vendor, the maid, fighting with the auto driver, arguing with the call centre executive - that would add up to another hour and a half
Infront of the TV - one more
The rest doing household chores or thinking about all the unaccomplished tasks I need to do

Why is it difficult to take out five mins for myself.
someone once told me Time = f (interest)

Balance

Constantly trying to balance

Between the state of 'being' and the state of 'doing'
Between what I like to do and what I must
Between how I want to be, who I am and who I am expected to be
Between work and play
Between fun and responsibility
Between indulging in this moment and worrying about the future
(why does future have a ring of worry to it always - food for my thought)
Between advancing my career and feeling fulfilled within myself
Between the accolades that come from outside and the simple contentment that fills me within
Between the quest for money and the quest for time

The balance is what gives a sense of control.

As with food, so with life - the balance of ingredients is what makes it delicious
A little more of this ...a little less of that and we've spoilt it completely

Happiness is a decision not a reaction

A decision starts from the inside
A reaction gets sparked from the outside

For the decision I do not depend
On anything or anyone
For the reaction I need to wait
For the reaction I build expectation

The decision can be anytime...anywhere
The decision can be ALWAYS
The reaction involves a time lag
And sometimes the time lag is painfully long

Sometimes it can take forever

But I dont want to wait forever
I want to be forever happy

How black is black?

Random thoughts of the day...

That black tea looks blacker than it tastes
That black coffee tastes blacker than it looks
That we need a new unit of time...
An hour seems as short as minutes
A year seems as short as few months
We need gigantic...elphantine units of time
To do justice to the pace of life these days!

That people who seem quite idiotic actually
earn quite a lot of money
That some people even need a break from
the 'nothing' that they do!