Showing posts with label Anchored. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anchored. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Gratitude
Come to think of it, we don't offer
gratitude often enough. We are not aware enough that the burning heat of life
does not touch us in extremes. Yes, there are challenges for all of us. But,
many of us tend to over amplify those challenges and make a huge deal without realizing
that there are worse case scenarios around us , the kind we would not be able
to tolerate even , just because we have not really been burnt to experience the
difference .
We have kind of escaped the areas that the
mines have been laid out or have lucked out in not entering those areas. And
what you don’t experience ever becomes a memory to learn from.
Somewhere along the way, each time we
forgot to say "thank you" to the Universe, we lost a little bit of
our energy. And each time we are filled with gratitude, we are transported to a
higher plane where there is happiness and joy. They are generated from within
and so, also, remain with us over a long period of time.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Sunday, 22 July 2018
Option in life
We have so many postulates and generalities we
speak out mechanically. "Good from far but far from good". Really! I
want to ask, are you talking about yourself? After all, everything in this
world has a mirror effect.
If you look deep within each individual, there
is something nice and good in everyone. So, when we believe the above saying
about someone, we are just resonating and trying to cope with this feeling
within ourselves. And if we ARE doing that, then we don't know how to touch the
positive core in another. Again, this means that we are unable to touch our own
positive core because negative memories have taken over.
I keep thinking that in order to keep our health,
we need to clean our homes, both inner and outer. Trying to clean someone
else's backyard will not clean up yours.
Frivolity and skimming the surface of life is
an option. But for those looking for pearls, deep sea diving is the only
answer.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Friday, 22 June 2018
Justifications
Have you noticed that when you plan and
work towards something, there will most certainly be last minute glitches and
little, little obstacles coming your way, Sudden changes and sudden diversions.
It is uncanny. And this goes on through life. I often ask whether some people
go through more and some less. Whether some go through less but more intense
experiences or little irritants throughout life?
But then, you have to find justifications
to accept that which is beyond control. That is the bottom line. This thought
is perhaps a continuation of my earlier thought in a recent post:
That life happens when we are busy planning
it according to our desires. However, let us not dwell just on these but on the
larger happiness beyond the immediate hurdles that makes life worth living.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 17 June 2018
Chance
There is a great happiness that lies in our
hearts and which springs forth from our hearts when there is harmony within and
without. The laughter of friends, the gushing of a waterfall, the drenching in
the rain together, bus journeys playing "Antakshari" amidst much
merriment... and even in the silent companionship.
Life can be beautiful if you give it a
chance.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Self assessment
It seems a dilemma when Krishna asks Arjuna
to surrender all his actions to him and act according to dharma. On the other
hand, we are taught to take ownership of our actions. Those who go into these
questions find no easy formula to master. When to surrender and when to own our
actions?
A constant self assessment is a way to
understand the qualitative difference between these two. Even surrender is not
that simple. To surrender completely is not even to plan and just let things
happen. Just flow. Can we do that? Generally Impossible.
We really need to understand all the layers
of our mind that we create for ourselves and then find ways to peel them off
when understanding dawns. Meditation is a powerful tool to scan ourselves in a
way no MRI or ECG can.
The inner voice speaks only when there is
silence around it and it can be heard.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Sunday, 3 June 2018
The Universe
The Universe is buzzing around us, giving
us so many opportunities, so much support, so many kindred souls to help . Yet,
we are unable to move forward and create experiences at an optimum level. Our
eyes scan far away horizons when everything is so close. Perhaps, that is why
we can't see it. It is too close .
The formulae for our well being are also
perhaps as simple as the gifts from the universe are closer than we think or we
know. We simply look in the wrong place.
Reminds me of the woman who lost her needle
inside her hut but was looking for it outside in her yard only because the
light was in the yard, while her hut was dark.
Similarly, we also look to raising our
vibrations through external sources whereas the tools lie within us. We
constantly look in the wrong place.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Monday, 28 May 2018
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Sunday, 20 May 2018
Enough is enough
I always wonder, when is enough really enough?
How many times during a conflict, we say, enough is enough? What IS that enough?
What is this benchmark of "enough?"
Mostly, we set our own limits, don't we? And
sometimes, others set them for us. For example, this far and no further from
both sides, actually.
You know, in a constantly changing world, I
find it difficult to understand this as a permanent concept. We know that
"space" is ever growing and endless. We measure it in terms of the
horizon but beyond that also is an ever expanding space. Maybe, the horizon
then is our limitation of the mind. Maybe, space beckons us to go beyond what
is apparent, again and again, repeatedly.
Strangely enough, we have it within us but
we tend to use it differently. Like, greed can become limitless. Obsession can,
too. The "enough" may not exist here. But we seldom have to accuse
anyone about enough loving. There is mostly a scarcity of this and exactly due
to a self imposed "enough", Math between people. "I didn't get
enough". But I probably also didn't GIVE enough...
But how much IS enough? Give this enough
thought.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 13 May 2018
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Sunday, 29 April 2018
Natural consequences
Bringing up children to be wholesome
individuals within the current context of complications, confusion, complexes
and all sorts of mental corruption is a huge challenge. Many couples who think
that having children is step 2 after marriage may please the family members
around them but they themselves may not be ready as in mature enough, to become
parents. To be responsible adults also means being brought up well by YOUR
parents because you will only pass on to the kids what you know or the way you
are.
Naturally then, the children will generally
imbibe your teachings. If you look around at families, gone are the bonding
families where sets of parents and cousins are closely attached to each other. Sadly,
the children of siblings who develop distances due to small and insignificant
issues invariably influence their children to maintain those distances, a huge
part of their insecurities.
The other things that happen are natural
consequences of adult behavior. The kids begin to tell the parents what they
want to hear. Whenever unity is not prevalent, kids tend to take advantage by
talking against the people their parents don't like. And the parents seem to
endorse this because of wanting control over their kids. So, wrong becomes
right. And the complexes of adult issues percolate to their children.
Growing up, these kids prefer friends to
family and thus, families get more and more divided. And the odd people who can
cement the frayed relationships are themselves victims of these myopic
attitudes.
I can understand that everyone is human.
But if the basic family love is maintained, all else can be forgiven and
forgotten and kids can grow up healthy and respectful. Many a time, it takes
just one complexes person in the family to begin its end. And that person is
usually in denial of being the initiator, small tear in a beautiful fabric which, if not
darned immediately, tends to become bigger and bigger.
And after a point, the fabric must be discarded
because you can't even darn it anymore. Many families have been torn apart and
today what we call insular family units are units without limbs and heart. Collections
of units joined together forms unity. And in the absence of unity, only units
function in society today.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 16 April 2018
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