Let the truth prevail

Telling the truth may have often resulted in embarrassing situations, perhaps have left painful memories too and may have even triggered anger and fury completely disproportionate to the facts as revealed. Perhaps we may also sly grin at the escapades that we managed by suppressing the truth or outrightly lying. Look back dispassionately and perhaps [...]

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Overcoming your fears

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”  Bertrand Russell All of us without exception would have experienced fear in some form or the other. It is equally possible that most of us would have overcome most of these fears but are plagued by some select fears still. There would also be the more unfortunate [...]

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How to attain peace of mind

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. Lin Yutang I have been beseeched by inquiries from well meaning friends as to why I have not been consistently updating my posts as I was doing  through 2010. I do plead guilty of being a tad lethargic but more importantly [...]

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Life is…

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell When things don’t go the way we expect it to or wish it to go, we blame life’s unfairness and feel cheated and discriminated against. What we often fail to understand is that life offers everyone, without exception, an opportunity and it also [...]

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The gain from pain

One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.  Bernie S. Siegel, M.D. Broadly speaking one will experience 3 types of pain. The physical pain is what we are most familiar with like breaking our bones or getting grazed when one [...]

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Sadness is inescapable but…

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. André Gide It is an inescapable part of life, yet sadness isn’t welcome and so people react to sadness in varied ways. While many people openly display their distraught image through tears and wailing, there are others who keep a stoic and glum face but [...]

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Make peace with the past

Your past is always going to be the way it was.  Stop trying to change it. Anon When we look back wistfully on the good old days gone by, it is but natural that our minds also stray into some of the more forgettable, painful and embarrassing moments of our past, that we wish never [...]

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Troubles that treble your life

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. Robert R. Updegraff Stop to think about this profound observation once again before you read on. Now quickly calculate your bank balance and estimate what the source of income is and simultaneously ask yourself if you love everything about your [...]

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Fright

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.  Marcus Annaeus Seneca How often have you really come across danger in real life?  Have you been chased by a dog; come face to face with a wild animal; met with very dangerous accidents more than once in your [...]

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Pain

Pain is never permanent.  Saint Teresa of Avila With the exception of those who really experience acute continuous physical pain, mainly due to some incurable illness, particularly cancer most pains are never permanent. Of course, if one takes a view that pain is part of our punishment in earthly life or view pain as a [...]

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