It is the most dangerous form of lethargy. It is worse than cancer and ultimately the most destructive energy on the planet. Cancer only kills your body. Cancer of the mind is comfort zone.

A man who is content obviously is someone who can have no children, no relations, no one who looks up to him, no one who depends on him, no one he looks up to.

What about an ascetic?

Is an ascetic content? Not only is he still seeking, he is walking on the edge.

People run to the caves to escape the world. That is escapism, not ascetism. There are people who say, I have failed miserably in life, as a father, son, businessman, in every possible way. Now let me don on yellow robes and at least somebody will feed me three meals a day.  Let me hide in a cave, and not be disturbed by the world. That is escapism.

Buddha was a true ascetic. When he was Siddartha, he was a king, he had riches beyond the dreams of a common man. He had everything anyone could have hoped for—wife, children, all the glories, and he walked away. That is an ascetic. Buddha left his comfort zone. A true ascetic leaves his comfort zone. A true ascetic walks away from the cross beams on the building under construction. That is where you find an ordinary person clinging in fear to the closest person or pillar her can find, looking down at the height and trembling and not willing to leave that comfort zone even if his life depended upon it. But an ascetic walks on those six inches wide beams.

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience, even though such obedience may cause many a bitter tear and a separation from all that you have held as dear as life itself. But this obedience is the law of our being. We all have a little voice inside us that guides us. It tells us bitter truths that are hard to accept. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “Could we but evoke the oneness in stillness, we would be able to carry it within us in whatever went on in the world without. As a deep and awakened awareness from within, when acknowledged as ever present, much would be changed, and liberated indeed would we be.”

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things and what we do to make them come about. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die, nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.

Go forward and make your dreams come true.

You have understood nothing of leadership if you don’t understand the term “Be the change you want to see in others”(Mahatma Gandhi) To manipulate others is like trying to control the wind and the waves. Managing yourself is to adjust your own sails. So if you wish to use the wind, change your sails (change yourself).

Amongst the greatest warriors in the world were the Samurai, the Gurkha, the Tuaregs, the Beduin, the Commanche, the Mongols, the Spartans....to name but a few. An earmark of these class of warriors were the ceaseless infighting that kept them at the top of the game in times of peace. So it always took great leadership to bring them together in times of war. But when they came together they were invincible. Empires have been built and lost on their backs. Great leadership has never been about great systems or great organising abilities, it has always been about bringing together improbable allies and implacable forces into one's force.

For Networkers : Leaders are made, not signed up…

For Corporate Management : Leaders are made, and not hired…

For Parents : Leaders are made, and not inherited…

Leadership is not a talent, nor a skill, nor is it genetic. It’s a mindset.

Vijay Eswaran

A woman has strengths that amaze men. She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens. She holds happiness, love and opinions. She smiles when she feels like crying, cries when she is happy and laughs when she is afriad. Her love is unconditional! And her greatest strength is....she sometimes forgets what she is worth...