Showing posts with label Conscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conscience. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 August 2020
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Determination
Everywhere, you hear people lamenting about
how goodness does not pay. What do we aspire for in return for it? What payment?
It is strange that we have to be calculating here as well. I always thought it
had everything to do with qualities like caring, wanting the best for someone,
protecting someone, looking out for someone etc.
Well, as people close to me say, I live in
an alternate world and am completely clueless about where the world is today.
Not quite! It is one thing to know where it is and another to agree with
everything it stands for.
Even today, respect is earned with the same
old “obsolete” values. More so, because a majority is moving away from them
that their value is ever increasing.
Yes, they are considered to be outdated because
it is too much work for the rapid climbers today. Yet, when we see someone way
above in ethics, in moral code of conduct, the discerning among us must realize
it as a tough call requiring a lot of faith in oneself and the determination to
go it alone if one has to, to respect oneself first before others respect you.
Absolutely commendable!
Of course, those who have travelled a long way,
away from home, are kind of lost and don’t want to be told this. And so, they
have to find their way back to their core. Until then, the way out is waiting
and praying.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 13 February 2020
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Diversity
When your consciousness expands and extends
beyond the self, it is a wonderful feeling. You see what you didn’t see before.
You hear what you couldn’t before. The same environment seems different. What
used to bother you earlier you only smile at now.
This happens when you focus on yourself and
learn to consciously look beyond the visible. Of course, you might also see
what you may not want to see. But one has to make peace with the diversity in
this world without getting affected in whatever manner. This process begins
with a higher awareness which becomes deeper and deeper as you go along.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Knowledge and Wisdom
We often use "knowledge" and
"wisdom" as synonyms, taking it as natural. That people who have one
have the other. But it does not quite work that way.
Acquiring knowledge helps you make a better
living for yourself as medicine to a doctor's profession. Of course, as they
say, knowledge is never wasted. So, an open mind works like a sponge, imbibing
knowledge from anything and anyone and tucking it away for use during a rainy
day. You can literally become a multi tasker.
But it is not knowledge but the dawn of
wisdom that enhances the quality of your life. You make a better life by being
wise because the implications of having wisdom are many.
In wisdom, you become balanced. You know
when to speak and when not to, when to act and when not to. In wisdom, your
vision expands to incorporate others into your circle of warmth and caring.
Also in wisdom, you become compassionate and kind and learn to accept what you
cannot change.
You also shun the qualities you don't want
instead of shunning the people possessing those qualities. You become simple,
straightforward and honest and learn the art AND science of living.
Then, you make a better life. And if this
wisdom is complimented with knowledge, then life and living become merged into
one wholesome individual.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Monday, 20 August 2018
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Introspection
To speak freely is a human right. To live
in fear and bottle up your opinions and thoughts is an injustice that societies
must come together to combat, for good can only come out of a free and frank
discussion followed by introspection.
Just as we stop in our tracks when a black
cat crosses, (sheer superstition but we do it nevertheless), we need to stop in
our tracks when our thoughts, speech and actions become black.
Black is a color which soaks in white to
make a gray but what we need is pure white, the healing light and the light of
clarity and purity.
There are so many tags attached to life…
such as "difficult", "unbearable", "sad”,
"exhausting" when we work with black.
What we need is radiant white in our lives.
And white symbolizes "simple", "honest”, "loving" and
bright....
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Talent and confidence
Talent and confidence! It is a two in one
package and no two ways about it. Right from the time that parents either
encourage and appreciate or the reverse, a person becomes either confident or
diffident. When opportunities are denied growing up, talent languishes because
of a lack of self belief. "I can do it" and "I am good
enough", the two most an important conviction without which whatever is
learnt stays unexposed and in utilized. Many, many instances can I quote, of
such cases where the talented little child becomes an adult but has not learned
to breathe independently, to showcase the uniqueness with aplomb.....
Someone, somewhere did not notice,
appreciate or nurture that uniqueness, that talent which lay sacrificed at the altar
of hesitation and maybe, timidity also. Or maybe an implicit and innocent faith
in the capacity of the discernment of elders which was a faith gone wrong.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Sunday, 30 July 2017
Thursday, 19 January 2017
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