In every challenge or even tragedy, there is an opportunity. And if you train yourself to look for the opportunity, you will be able to take control of the situation and even turn it into a positive or if it can't be turned into something good, at least something good could come out of it."

Whenever I want to evoke the feeling of gratitude,l I usually start with the simple realisation that I am alive and breathing. Seneca said something along the lines of ‘treat each separate day as a separate life’. I try to remember this quote as often as possible and find it very helpful in regards to gratitude. You could also think about all the b... See more

A HOLISTIC ATTITUDE. A great way to mis-see people is to see only a piece of them. Some doctors mis-see their patients when they see only their bodies. Some employers mis-see workers when they see only their productivity. We must resist every urge to simplify in this way. The art historian John Richardson, Pablo Picasso’s biographer, was once asked

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the basic conviction in Vedanta: it is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive beings.

When you focus on an object or move your eyes, what causes you to want to do that? If it's a thought, where does that thought come from?

Having answered that, continue to ask what caused the thing you answered.

You will soon find that every action and every thought you make is caused by something else prior to that, like domino pieces falling over o... See more

But there is a "self" in the perceiving of these, you are - as the headless way might put it - an empty space in which everything exists, the birds, the trees, the sky, the thought you think of as "you".......it's all part of a single empty openess. It's a tricky thought to wrap your mind around, but it doesn't negate that moment to moment sensatio... See more

briefly imagine losing what you have and take for granted. So perhaps losing your home, prized possessions, ability to use your legs or your nearest and dearest. Not to dwell on it but to imagine it briefly. So close you eyes and visualise it for a moment or two, try and make it real in your mind and see how that feels. I would caution that if feel... See more

The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”

— Louis Pasteur