Right and wrong, good and evil. Conflicting choices — diametrically opposite options, with the power to make or mar reputations — stare us in the face many a time in life. Which way do we go?

Rushing to the airport, half-way there you realise you can’t remember if you’ve locked the front door. If only you had been less tense and more mindful at the time of departure, this nagging doubt would not have arisen. Sucked in as we are into the hectic pace of modern routine, we are constantly busy, oftentimes with nothing.

A few days ago I had occasion to travel with a lady on a long distance road trip. She was talking non-stop, nineteen-to-the-dozen, about very inane stuff. Out of politeness I didn’t say anything. But in my heart I wished that she would stop. For one, it was exhausting keeping up a conversation for several hours and two, the strain of having to listen actively in order to be able to do that compounded my agony. Left to myself, I would have preferred to just look out of the window at the changing landscape and

One of the most powerful quotes on the power of thought that I came across not so long ago (author unknown) reads thus:
Watch your thoughts,
they become your words.
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