love makes the world go round

An inner power needed to make accurate decisions is the power to tolerate. Tolerance is not about having to put up with or endure. It’s about respect for difference. It is about being able to appreciate diversity, the beauty in that diversity and difference. We need confidence to allow others to do what they are [...]

‘Blessings are not valued until they are gone.’ So much is overlooked and so much of our actions are automatic that it is as if nothing special ever happens. Nothing stays the same. The situations we find ourselves in today can change in the twinkling of an eye and the freedom and amenities we took [...]

To have cooperation, love and mercy is to be a giver. When we see others’ weaknesses all we can have generally are negative thoughts about them. We can, then, no longer help the other person in any way as such negative thoughts only further strengthen the others’ negativity. Instead of reacting with negativity, we need [...]

The one who is content is creative and thereby successful. It is usually believed that to be content is to have nothing to look forward to. And the one who is content is the one who tries for nothing new. So it is usually believed that contentment brings hardly any great achievements. We need to [...]

Making things positive doesn’t mean a sunny outlook; it means making the choice to see problems as opportunities.Every problem and difficult situation is embedded with a solution -the adventure lies in finding the solution. When we worry, we make problems bigger than what they really are.Instead of worrying, accept whatever you have no control over, prepare wherever you can [...]

There cannot be a positive output when there is a negative input. We often work in this way, wanting others to be better in some way, but, instead of helping them, or having faith in them and seeing their good qualities, we hinder (obstruct) them by concentrating on their past, their weaknesses and their mistakes. Our focus is [...]

Perfection comes to the one who is open to learning. When we realize having made a mistake, we usually have negative thoughts about ourselves. This is because we expect the best out of ourselves, i.e., we expect ourselves to be perfect in everything we do. But this expectation prevents us from taking naturally the learning from the situation. We [...]

The way to control the mind is to talk to it with love. Whenever I find my mind wandering I try to control it with force. I try to pull the mind and order it not to think about something. Yet I find that, the more I try to force the mind not to go [...]

To be free from negativity is to be free from limitation. In many situations I tend to feel helpless and bound by different things and people coming my way. I continue to blame others for my difficulties, but find no solace or solution. I also look for solutions outside, but find none. The real cause [...]

Ask yourself the question: “What would make my office or home a more peaceful place?” There are many ways in which you can make your office/home a peaceful place, through your own behaviour and the way in which you organize your workplace (office) or home. By functioning from an inner peaceful state and being a [...]