Parth Sawhney

Is it possible for us humans to eliminate all of our flaws and live as perfect beings for the rest of our lives? Of course not. When we look at great people like Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, not only do

So many of us are seduced by the notion of ‘being busy’. We take pride in it and even sometimes flaunt it. We want to show to the world that we’re frantically moving from one task to the next one, skipping meals and not even pausing to catch our

We wish to attain financial freedom and build a better future for ourselves and our family, yet we end up spending recklessly and take part in impulsive purchases. We say we want to find a better, well-paying job, yet we hardly look around and take any action. We desire

We all have a dark side within us, the one that keeps us away from loving ourselves and the people around us, from letting others love and adore us, and from enjoying the juiciness of life. It’s important that we look for the buried negative feelings from past events

When we experience other people’s screwed-up and skewed-up behaviors and actions and their awfulness and rudeness, we easily get hurt, offended and defensive. We are quick towards judging others and take things personally. We stew, we shower them with expletives, we gossip about them. Instead of taking

As we embark on the journey of mindfulness and awareness, we are also making friends with our mind and the collective consciousness. We are getting in better touch with our Inner Being which positions us to make better friends with the people around us. Whenever we sit down to meditate,

If we take a closer look at our past behaviors and actions, we will come across a sad realization — that we have not been acting consciously and rationally. Instead of taking charge and being deliberate with our choices, decisions, behaviors, and actions, we were ruled by our emotions, impulses, unconscious

Most of us take great measures and go to vast lengths in order to impress someone. We end up wearing uncomfortable clothes that we don’t even like, we pick up accents, we change our hair color, we start eating differently, we drive cool cars and we buy shiny gadgets

Most of us live our lives like a hamster on a running wheel. We think we are running hard, we think we are progressing ahead but in the end, we are in the same place where we initially started. Unfortunately, the empty pursuits that we engage in don’t take