Being hurt and wounded is part of life. All of us have faced some hurt – emotional, physical, mental or spiritual. How do we deal with our woundedness? Do we retire into a corner and lick our wounds, continuously seeing ourselves as victims? Or do we allow our woundedness to be way of giving to […]
Do You Follow The Rules?
Do you follow the rules? I did. Sometimes I can’t believe that I used to be Miss Goody-Two-Shoes when I was young. Oh yes, the one word that appeared on my school report card under the column ‘Conduct’ was ‘Responsible’. And I took that really seriously too. Do You Follow The Rules? It’s fine to […]
A Generous Impulse
The Dalai Lama says, ‘Never resist a generous impulse’. A Generous Impulse A child crying, pitifully, because she’s lost and has no clue where her parents are. A mother, helplessly trying to maneuver her infants and a shopping trolley An old man, worriedly trying to cross a busy road, scared of the vehicles whizzing past. […]
Compassion Is Not A Luxury
We live in dire times. The world seems beset with problems of various kinds. Natural disasters on the scale we’ve never witnessed before. Wildfires. Hurricanes. Floods. Then there’s so much race-related hatred and religious intolerance. At times, we’re overcome with the weight of it all and wonder where we’re headed. I believe that, just as […]
Let’s Make Kindness The Norm
Racism, religious intolerance and sheer cruelty often seem to be winning in a world gone mad. It seems even more pressing then to make kindness the norm. Kindness can be really simple. In a world that often seems to be without hope, it is the small (and sometimes very big) acts of kindness that renew […]