A New Year... new life... a new beginning... you can turn towards a life of enduring peace and un-caused HAPPINESS...
Hi Friends,
I begin by wishing all readers a Very Happy New Year. It's a new beginning. Can we turn a new leaf in our lives first and foremost by dropping old baggage? We love to carry baggage (old grudges, grievances, victim-hood, feeling wronged etc.).
We carry this giant load as if it is a very valuable possession, very dear to us, not realizing that this massive structure is yet another road block to FUNDAMENTAL HAPPINESS.
Just drop this weight that you have been lugging for so many years. Just let it go. See how light you feel. You know what prevents us from shedding this weight? Yes, the same culprit - the EGO, the monster within. We do not realize how much of accumulated pain this baggage creates within us.
My book ARE YOU REALLY HAPPY? has several pages on this monstrous baggage with many examples. I will devote another post on this. I touched upon this topic just to create awareness about how we often obstinately dwell in the past.
As the year 2013 was going past us, I chanced upon the hatching of a pair of squabs (baby pigeons) on the flower bed at our dining room window sill. I captured the stages of their growth with my camera. It is always an enriching experience to see new life take form. Today, they almost look like adult pigeons, but have yet to learn to fly. Their mother often comes to encourage them to flap their wings.
Here are the pictures:
The first time when a bird ventures out to fly, it just floats into unknown territory. Egged on by the mother, the young ones just give up resistance and let go. And, they move into a lovely new world.
Much the same way, if we choose to do so, we too can give up our resistance, surrender and let go. We too can discover a new life of FUNDAMENTAL HAPPINESS. It is something you cannot imagine. It is un-caused peace and joy.
Finally, here is a shot I took from my residence at Mumbai, India of the last sun set of 2013:
Cheers!
Deepak Chatterjee
chatterjee.deepak33@gmail.com
www.facebook/deepak.chatterjee.944
@Deepak33C
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As the year 2013 was going past us, I chanced upon the hatching of a pair of squabs (baby pigeons) on the flower bed at our dining room window sill. I captured the stages of their growth with my camera. It is always an enriching experience to see new life take form. Today, they almost look like adult pigeons, but have yet to learn to fly. Their mother often comes to encourage them to flap their wings.
Here are the pictures:
(pictures taken with Canon EOS 550D, 55-250 mm)
The first time when a bird ventures out to fly, it just floats into unknown territory. Egged on by the mother, the young ones just give up resistance and let go. And, they move into a lovely new world.
Much the same way, if we choose to do so, we too can give up our resistance, surrender and let go. We too can discover a new life of FUNDAMENTAL HAPPINESS. It is something you cannot imagine. It is un-caused peace and joy.
Finally, here is a shot I took from my residence at Mumbai, India of the last sun set of 2013:
Cheers!
Deepak Chatterjee
chatterjee.deepak33@gmail.com
www.facebook/deepak.chatterjee.944
@Deepak33C
Views are personal
The photographs speak for themselves. Wonderful!
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