Entries Tagged as 'Introspection'

March 29, 2008

Do forgive and be forgiven: a circle

I felt the lovely hug of a mother by reading the speech in English of H.H. Shri Nirmala Devi from last Sunday, Easter.
Few excerpts:
So to forgive is the biggest blessing human beings have. Even Christ said the same thing. “I forgive them because they don’t know what they are doing.” So if Christ had to [...]

March 4, 2008

The fantasy world of the media

 Every election cycle we are treated to candidates who promise us “change,” and 2008 has been no different. But in the American political lexicon, “change” always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.
Real change would mean something like [...]

March 2, 2008

Meditation camps

 I have been attending Meditation camps since 2002 and I find them quite incomparable to any other experience for inner growth. Normally they are organized in very beautiful places where the presence of the nature is strong and pervading and you can spend your time in complete freedom, chatting with new people, sharing talks, suggestions, doubts, [...]

February 14, 2008

Why celebrities come into our life

Celebrity worshipping is one of the train stops in this Trend Blend map for the new year. How true is it? After noticing the word “HAPPY..” in the set up message of the chat with my sister I immediately thought “oh wow she’s wishing Happy Chinese new year to everybody” when scrolling the full sentence [...]

February 7, 2008

China & India forever sisters

Also twin sisters: there are so many things, traditions, mentality, ideas, visions, economy, fashion which are shared by these two countries. Watching at these three girls of a musical trio from Sichuan (the department stuck to the east border of Tibet) I cannot avoid to think about Indian movies from Bollywood, the lovely ornaments and long womanly [...]

January 27, 2008

Obama’s words in South Carolina

I just spent about an hour listening and writing down a micro section of Barack Obama speech from last night after his resounding victory in South  Carolina. He reminds me of the character and passion for change of some of my friends. See what he said towards the end:
  And men and women are every color and creed who [...]

January 18, 2008

Detaching not attaching

After having dedicated a post to the quality of forgiveness in the blog magazine, today morning I want to dedicate my attention to detachment. I spend most of my time in its company and I have to say it has been my saving anchor in several crucial occasions.  Going back in the memory I noticed [...]

January 11, 2008

How negativity club together

I read today on Vogue Style.com: 
CALM AND COOL
JANUARY 2008
The scene for Vogue’ January cover: poolside at a cozy Santa Monica beach house with sunny actress Kate Hudson and her four-year-old son, Ryder, both dancing to the sounds of the Rolling Stones. After the school was over, Hudson, photographer Patrick Demarchelier, makeup artist Gucci Westman, and [...]

January 11, 2008

Witness this message!

Today I received this message in my mail box at office. 
 Hi,
 I would like to invite you to visit the Shangri-la showroom tomorrow morning (Friday), we plan to leave the office at 0920. Welcome to witness everything we have done together. 
RL
 It was from one of the manager. To visit the showroom was really fun and interesting. I understood [...]

December 19, 2007

My Xmas e-card

In this period with my colleagues at work we use to send email greetings for the season. The girls from Human Relations Department come slightly dressed up by angels and santas sharing sweets and best wishes. Its really cute, it’s a moment of relax and sweet laughing for many of us in the office.This is what I [...]