You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy a cup of tea. Only in the awareness of the present can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup, can you savour the aroma, taste the sweetness, appreciate the delicacy. If you are ruminating about the past or...
A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package: “This, – he said – isn’t any ordinary package.” He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. “She got this...
It’s wrong to get upset. We’re meant to stay in control, aren’t we? We’re meant to prove we can cope! Prove to whom? Others? Ourselves? Plus, we’re told… Don’t get upset! Cheer up! Don’t show them you’re weak. It’s wrong to get angry! So you distract yourself, you...
I often asked people who drive to say, work, do you punch the air and say ‘YES!’ for achieving it? Of course you don’t. It’s nothing. Well in fact – it isn’t nothing. It’s success. You’ve successfully driven to work. There was a time when you didn’t and couldn’t have...