Showing posts with label Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom. Show all posts
Friday, 15 November 2024
Thursday, 3 August 2023
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Thursday, 18 June 2020
Honest and Welfare
Why is it that it has become a crime to be
honest and welfare oriented? Very simple! This is the scenario of current times
for the same reason that families are becoming distant.
Too much freedom given, taken or taken
forcefully has, over a period of time, diluted the impact of honesty and
benevolent advice. Today, when freedom has been generally misused to result in
an eclipse of general welfare, the scope of an upward swing would require a
herculean effort from each one of us.
We have always had to be driven towards
that upward swing. We need to be taught to think right. And then maybe, we will
realize how valuable the values that we lost were.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Harmful Thoughts
We speak of wanting the freedom to make our
own choices. Fair enough. And yet, when it comes to our random, often harmful
thoughts, we don’t realise that we need to choose the better thoughts and let
go of those that will not serve us. And in our hearts, we know this . But a
restless mind receives hundreds of thoughts, many of which are useless ones.
But we still receive them, and if we are aware, will turn them over in our
minds first and examine their worth in our lives. And if not, then better to
reject internalising them and send them back into the Universe. Because similar
thoughts tend to coagulate into a huge mass of negativity. Whereas, good
thoughts must be held on to tightly or they have a tendency to scatter into the
atmosphere and disappear.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Tolerance
There comes a time when you kind of tend to
lose your tolerance for superficiality. The surface look of anything has a
limited period of interest and limited value. After that, you want to go
deeper. And if there is no “ deep” dimension or is not apparent when sought,
there comes a saturation point and then the mind wanders away.
This intolerance, more often than not , is
an age related symptom. Weeding out the chaff from the wheat is an inevitable
process when exhaustion for meaningless anything sets in over a long period of
time.
You start questioning why you think , speak
or act without really catering to your basic persona. Your honest persona. Your
more genuine persona. Why ? Time to quit the play., the drama of it all and
return to source energy.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Depressing thoughts
Unobtrusively, we start to become what our
thoughts are made up of. At first, we are taught to think like our parents. We
imbibe our environment. Everyday actions we see around us speak of the thoughts
that inspired the actions. And we emulate and emulate.
Later, when we see ourselves from the eyes
of others, we realize that we must look onwards into our thought patterns which
are seen by people in our speech and action. You cannot separate the people
from their thoughts.
Depressing thoughts! Thoughts of envy and
sadness or happy thoughts, thoughts of love and goodness. Every thought will
manifest if given importance.
We foster the thought and then it festers.
That's it! Many such festering thoughts create who we are.
So, think before you think! Meditate on
what you think before you give the thoughts the pride of place within your
mind, because they may enslave you. And what will that make you? A slave to
your thoughts instead of the master who has command over them.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Sunday, 24 June 2018
Monday, 18 June 2018
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Monday, 19 June 2017
Personifying
The things we do may perhaps be similar to
others but the WAY we do them are different. An often repeated truth...that
winners don't necessarily do different things but might do the same thing
differently.
Have you noticed how creative people do
mundane chores as if they are enjoying them day after day after day? The
onlooker sees these as boring, mechanical and depressing. But an enriched mind
survives well, digging up many ways to keep the interest alive.
"ROUTINE" is the word for people
who cannot find new routes and get stuck along the way. And when they add
"mundane" to "routine", then they have truly lost their
interest and therefore, their creativity.
I find walking on round tracks not so easy
because you end up nowhere except in circles. But now, I reverse the circle,
change my breathing pattern, speed, the shloka I might be chanting for the
round, the trend of thought....or maybe, just become still in
mind...thoughtless.
I find this is a great technique to live
with myself, too. The inputs come from different aspects of me but I have a lot
of fun personifying all these different ideas as many people within me giving
me new ideas and walking in that circle with me.
Surekha
Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Saturday, 3 June 2017
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Digesting success!
Digesting success! It is a social issue
which increases with more materialism incorporating elements like excess
wealth, celebrity status and the power that accompanies these, often bringing
in a certain amount of carelessness, even callousness and riding slip shod over
people because with a head in the clouds, looking down is not a virtue in
possession.
Spiritually,
these are often not compatible because of what they do to the psyche. It is
only the odd person who can digest “success” in
terms of good karma being rewarded and therefore, gratitude.
But there is a little good news…
Today,
the tolerance to myopic attitudes is wearing thin. The wheel is turning once
more towards the universal values and against self centered thoughts and actions at the cost of others.
Today,
gradually, right is being applauded as right and wrong as wrong. I guess we are
fed up of artifice, might is right, the attitude that the end justifies the
means and the economic disparities which continue to make it difficult for the
common man to keep a certain standard, especially when there is so much
available that money can buy today.. And it doesn't help to have glaring
publicity and opulence for those few who have much and state it every minute
with their attitudes, their lifestyles and not enough demonstration of
improving the lot of the masses in the country.
No, I
am not either a communist or an anti capitalist. But I do believe in values
like stooping when tall, humble when successful and contributing to creating a
balanced society in every way.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 31 July 2016
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
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