Colours of My Inner Sky

1. "You're never too old to become younger." ~Mae West 2. "Knowledge is realizing that the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in your fruit salad." ~Miles Kington 3. “Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.” ~Anon 4. “She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.” ~Mae West 5. “A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” ~Sir Winston Churchill 6. “Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.” ~Author Unknown 7. “The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.” ~Author Unknown 8. “An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.” ~William Castle 9. “Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.” ~Anonymous 10. “Sometimes I need what only you can provide...

‘To be able to fill the leisure time intelligently is the last product of civilization’, says Arnold Toynbee. For most people in our time, the term leisure time is often synonymous with ‘ non-working time’. However, there is an important distinction between the two.   Leisure time should be defined as those few precious hours each day when you are free to do whatever you want to do. The first step towards enjoying leisure time is to recognize that it exists, and it does exist for the majority of people today. Whether you are conscious of it or not, you decide each day if you are going to use this precious time or waste it.  Sadly, most people in today’s hectic world have become automatons. They routinely go to work each morning, put in eight hours of work before returning home, watch TV, and then go to bed. This routine repeats day after day! These folks do not live 365 different days in a year; they live the same day 365 times! Then, there are those com...

I looked at the red rose, the first person created an imaginary garden for the real rose, he was a dreaming artist; the second person compared the rose with the beauty of my beloved; he was a romantic poet, the third person thought of 6800 Angstorm and the pigments that make it red; he was a scientist, the fourth person concluded : the colour was added to the rose to attract insects to pollinate; he was a naturalist, the fifth person tried to find out whether or not the existence of the rose depends on the observation of the observer; he was a philosopher. I was startled to know how much I had found out about myself just by looking at the rose that I am a crowd, I am as diverse as the nature itself, I am a bunch of strings each of which creates a divine music, yet, I am a bunch of contradictions put into well-defined Pandora's boxes. When I was searching for my face in this crowd wondering either I am all the faces or n...

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~Robert Frost "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." ~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." ~Tom Robbins "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." ~Victor Hugo "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." ~Albert Einstein "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'." ~Erich Fromm "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything." ~Katherine Hepburn "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you cour...

In the previous post, I discussed how to use fear of death as a motivation to live life to the fullest. In this post, I discuss what it means to live life to the fullest on daily basis. Living life to the fullest means living today in such a way that you will not regret if you die tomorrow. In essence, it is living your dreams today than deferring it to a later date. It is possible to live such a life by sincerely  following these  five steps: 1.   Live one day at a time : Learn and plan on a long term basis, but act on a short term basis. Although I have ideas of my annual goals, I usually plan life on a weekly basis. One week is long enough to live with purpose and creativity but not too long to lose focus. Once the planning for the week is done on a Sunday evening, I act on a daily basis. When we live our today fully, it automatically makes our yesterdays memorable and tomorrows hopeful. The challenge is to live today to the fullest according to the poin...

At a certain point in life, almost all people are afraid of death. That point in life is an experience or a realisation which makes death appear less abstract and more personal . It is more common to have this fear in midlife when one realises that the number of birthdays left is less than the number of birthdays passed. Fear of death can be crippling unless one knows how to benefit from it by using that fear constructively . The following quote by Mark Twain captures the essence of how to do so. The idea is to use fear of death as a motivation to live life to the fullest. Since one does not know when death can strike, one can start every day by feeling thankful to be alive than taking life for granted. It helps to do so when one realises that millions of people around the world do not make it to a new day! Fear of death can make one truly grateful to life and everything in it. Once one realises how every new day is a gift from life, one can do one's best to live every sin...

Everyone wants to love and be loved. Sincere love brings maximum happiness to one's life. How does one get sincere love? What is sincere love? It is the love that allows you to be your best without compromising your uniqueness. It can come from a person, from an activity, from the depth of your heart or from the stillness of your mind. Should you seek love? Or, should you wait for love to seek you? Rumi said: "what you seek is seeking you". So, you can only prepare yourself to receive what you are seeking when it arrives. How do you prepare yourself for love? The following quote by Rumi gives an answer.