Insights that Excites

I am lost, In the drift of souls From the debris of the leftovers of life That lay strewn around on the foot path Of the capital city Or in the burnt ruins of the Symbol of hospitality, In a rival capital. I am one with the drift It is a strange amalgamate of souls, That sing in the name of happiness, souls That rejoice in the name of love, souls That cry in unition at a loss unimaginable. Unable to tear away from the lifeless bodies Unable to see the loss on the faces Of the ones we leave behind. I am on my journey As a soul that hopes To never be born again To live in the divisions Created in the name of Isms In a world that looses its sanity A world that has lost its zest For the Ism of Life. My reaction to the turn of recent terrorist activites in the subcontinent. I love life and cant understand how or why some factions insist on wasting such a lot of it.

Wings of Fire In the corner room with the wooden floor Lay the soft song of life.. By the comforting warmth of Everyday life, Untouched by the whirlwind Within. Till you came by and The song remained soft no more.. It is a calling, The brilliance of a thousand suns Dazzling on the wooden floor. Waiting to take off In passion On the wings of fire.

Crossroads …. Sitting in the den, On a damp dark December.. The chill is real. The fingers of loneliness .. Oh so strong So many stories Those.. that can turn the frog into the prince Those that can leave the happy prince crying So many words.. so many voices.. In the heart of loneliness they boom loud and strong. They speak of love.. They speak of God… Always they speak of you.

“In my life there are places I remember…” sang the Beatles in their much loved song ‘In my life’. Yes in your life there are places, occasions and faces that you come across in your daily grind, and you remember some and forget many. Meeting Marc Woods is one of those occasions which will remain entrenched in my mind for all times to come. While in Armonk, the HQ of IBM, I had heard about the exploits of the legendary Marc Woods in Paralympics. That he had won 12 Paralympics Medals of which 4 were Gold are testimonial to the courage and determination of a man who has learnt not to accept defeat under adverse circumstances. I was in Bangalore on 5th of Sept 07 teaching a Basic Blue for New Leaders session, and IBM made it possible for me to meet Marc Woods . Sitting beside a legend is no easy task. But soon I was feeling at ease with him as he smiled through his bright blue eyes and shared his trials with destiny with me. Coming from a small fishing village in Britain he lost his left l...

The research on Frame of Reference goes to prove that the human mind is a function of all life experiences of a person. Therefore this is also unique and like the DNA of an individual. My life experiences make “me”. This is science and there are numerous scientific research on the psychology of perception, notions of assimilation and accommodation, Framing etc. However what is of particular interest to me and which is somewhat beyond our current bounds of science, is what the Hindu philosophy calls the Brahma. According to this philosophy, the individual is part of a larger whole – the Brahma - the infinite source of energy. We are all aware of the ‘brain’, but what is it that we call our “soul”? The soul is that part of our being which links us with this entire universe as it is part of the entire collection of energy that could be. This common and collective “soul” is what brings with it commonalities which exists between the human beings inspite of sever differences in culture, expe...

I just completed reading the book by Paulo Coelho “The Zahir”. It is a fantastic story of an individual’s journey of discovering himself. This book has created two very powerful reactions in me. One of complete agreement to what the author has to say. The other of disagreement because it raises in me several unanswered questions that I have come to know as valid questions in these 31 years of my life. In this book the author explains how he had to loose his inhibitions, his past and all the boundaries set by society in order to find true love and discover himself. His theory is based on a constant, that the society and human history teaches us the norms of “good” or “bad” the “normal” or the “abnormal”. We use and follow rules blindly, The rules set by history of the civilization that we now call our own. His construct is based on his belief that in order to be able to enjoy life to the fullest and help others to enjoy life to the fullest, a human mind has to break away from the bound...

I am currently reading a book by Dale Carnegie, which many of you might have seen on the bookshelves of several bookstores. It is called, ‘How to stop worrying and start living”. http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671733354 In this book, the author in his well recognized style shares with the reader several fantastic learnings like: Live in day tight compartments: “Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death.. The load of tomorrow” . Shut off the future as tightly as the past. The future is today What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can’t solve my problem? : When in a tight corner, which appears like a dead end with no light at the end of the tunnel to live for. Ask yourself this question, and prepare for the worst. Our life is what our thought makes of it. Put a “Stop – Loss” order on your worries: What is the last limit upto which I am go gin to worry about / complain about / hold a grudge on, on a particular issue. This is...