Home is the place

Home is the place where we can be who we truly are.It is where we take off our armour and exist without performance or pretence. There will always be tides of good and bad times, but home gives us safety, security, and belonging. Over time, it gathers moments—small,...

80/20 rule applies to happiness and stress

The 80/20 rule applies to happiness and stress as well.A small number of situations create most of our happiness, and a small number create most of our stress. The challenge is rarely complexity. It is awareness. For most of us, the list is short.Spending time with...

Venting

Venting is our natural way of letting out deep worries, challenges, and inner conflicts. We don’t vent in search of solutions. We vent to be heard, to be understood, to sit with someone who can empathise without trying to fix us. Our problems may not disappear, but we...

15 signs shouting about our shallowness

15 signs shouting about our shallowness Here are fifteen signs that quietly—but relentlessly—point to our shallowness: Ego becomes our primary driver. We are easily fascinated by glitter, status, and appearances. Our decisions are shaped by short-term comfort, not...

Carrying the baggage of people

Carrying the baggage of people with substandard thinking, unsettling behaviour, and ego-driven motives is deeply exhausting.Sometimes we are bound to such people through relationships, contracts, or long-term commitments. Despite our best efforts to change...

The Cost of Losing the Child Within

The Cost of Losing the Child Within Perhaps we lose more than we realise when we lose the child within. We lose the curiosity to learn and grow, while staying busy proving ourselves.We lose joy by trying too hard to appear serious, mature, and grown-up.We lose...

The choices we make today

We are often told that the past creates regret and the future creates anxiety. The antidote, we are told, is to stay fully awake in the present—to observe our thoughts and actions as they unfold. But the present does not exist in isolation. Our past experiences...

Happy New Year

As we close 2025 and step into 2026, we celebrate and welcome the year ahead. New plans, fresh hopes, and quiet aspirations begin to form. But a year becomes new only when we sow something new today. A seed of clearer thinking. A seed of deeper observation. A seed of...

Suffering is deeply linked to our blindness

Our emotional suffering is deeply linked to our blindness. Often, we do not know what we do not know. Even when others try to point things out, our default response is to keep navigating in the dark. We continue to suffer, adjusting to problems and challenges that...

10 Ways to Stay Unhappy

10 Ways to Stay Unhappy Have expectations from others that they are not aware of.Expect people to read your mind. Feel disappointed when they don’t. Quiet resentment is a reliable source of unhappiness. Keep your mind open to whatever comes first.Let every distraction...