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"Intelligence takes many different forms....... It is not one-dimensional.

And not as important as I used to think.

AI, energy, and biosciences are promising fields where you can make a huge impact. It's what I would do if starting out today."

- Bill Gates, tweets of Mon, 15th May 2017, responding to news of recent IT sector lay-off and new IT students\college pass-outs asking him for career advice

We are happy to share that one of our counsellors - Kavita Awasthi - has been approved as a Counsellor by National Career Service (NCS), Ministry of Labour & Employment, India.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.........

Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are 'not the eternal prisons' they were once thought......... Things can get out of a black hole, both on the outside and possibly to even another universe...... 'New thinking' means that it's possible to escape even out of a black hole...... So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up; there’s a way out........

However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at........ While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking, 7 Jan 2016, Reith Lectures, Royal Institute, London

[Professor Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21, when he was given just two years to live.] His daughter Lucy, 46, shared with the audience after the above lecture that her father's stubbornness and laughter have kept him alive. That and a strong wish to keep going, an ability to summon all his reserves, all his energy, all his mental focus and press them all into that goal of keeping going - at being alive and at producing extraordinary work in his area of interest.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3390699/Stephen-Hawking-s-advice-depression-sufferers-feel-like-black-hole-don-t-way-out.html

TTA Circle for Talent Assessment & Well-being

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."

- 'Prarthona', Ravindranath Tagore, 1901, translated by him in 1912

"हो चित्त रहे भय-शून्य जहाँ, सिर ऊँचा रहता हो वहाँ

रहे मुक्त जहाँ पर ज्ञान सदा

बने न घर-देश दीवारें-कारागृह,

शब्द उपजें सत्य-गर्भ से

हो अनथक लगन, उत्तोमोत्तर करने-बढ़ने की

परम्परायें रचें ना मरुस्थल रूढ़ियाँ का

न खोये रास्ता अपना विवेक-धारा

सदा सद्-विचारों, बातों, कर्मों की गति रहे फैलती-फलती

हे परमात्मा, ऐसे मुक्त-स्वर्ग में जागे-रहे देश मेरा, सर्वदा "

Fear is the strongest of all the human emotions.

When we do not understand something, we react to it with fear.

But Fear is an interpretive device - our reaction (when 'managed') allows us to place, to categorize, to locate this non-understood experience, and then to respond to it.

The chemistry of Fear triggers a sequence of decision-tree judgments which keep the human actively responding to unknown phenomena rather than stunned or frozen in disorientation. They are an opportunity one has to look carefully at one's unconscious beliefs.

When we understand something, we can react to it with love. As the opposite of fear is love.

Most human would prefer not to experience fear; they would prefer to experience only love. Hence, 'walk away' from anything which they are fearful of.

Fear can be of virtually anything... Take for example, xenophobia, fear of foreigners. Coming from the historical survival unconscious belief. If one can pause and examine the belief, one may find that it is possible to understand this "impossible to understand, and therefore dangerous " person.

Fear is dissolved into understanding, and understanding creates the feeling of love.

"Understanding" does not mean to comprehend every minor detail about the feared item. To begin to dissolve reactive fear, it is necessary to understand just barely enough to identify some commonality between oneself and the Feared Thing.

Recognition of shared humanity is called 'Compassion'. Normally, compassion is a state of understanding which produces no action at all. Compassion simply reduces fear and increases understanding, and the emotion this eventually produces is love.

It's that simple. The cure for fear is faith in human ability to understand things.

Please believe - we humans understand much more than we believe we can understand !

Face your fears | Look into the eyes of your Fear

Video song (not from the movie) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwg7QgJUHk

Lyrics with English translation -
http://www.bollymeaning.com/2016/02/ankhe-milayenge-darr-se-lyrics.html

AANKHEIN MILAYENGE DARR SE Video Song | NEERJA | Sonam Kapoor | Prasoon Joshi | T-Series Presenting Aankhen Milayenge Darr Se Video Song from upcoming biographical movie NEERJA starring SONAM KAPOOR, and Shabana Azmi and Shekhar Ravjiani in suppo...

Recommending attached for 108 well-researched references on how meditation helps us -
https://meditativewisdom.com

"How many times has someone offered you that careless but well meaning invocation to ‘just be yourself’? Like that was an easy thing to do !
Being nobody but yourself is hard in a world where most people would rather you were everybody else.
Being like everyone else? Well that’s a low fence."
― Caroline McHugh

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If I won't be myself, who will?”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
― Martha Graham

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
― Philip Pullman

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
― Rita Mae Brown

"My life is my message."
― Mahatma Mohandas K Gandhi

Pursuing the good life ? Just remind yourself of these -

"I am pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept."
- Jonny Wilkinson, former rugby union player, an erstwhile obsessive perfectionist (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058291/Jonny-Wilkinson-Ive-Buddhist-reading-quantum-physics-books.html)

"Better, best, or perfect is the enemy of good."
— French, English proverb

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
— Confucius

"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well".
— 'King Lear', Shakespeare

"Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes."
— Robert Watson-Watt, developer of early warning radar in Britain to counter the rapid growth of the Luftwaffe during Second World War.

Can one even describe true perfection ?

Perfection isn’t always what we expect or what we imaginatively hold in our mind's eye, it is still our interpretation of the 'absolute', the 'complete', of 'ananda'.

Perfection means that whatever is, is absolutely "correct, as it is". That is, in each moment "it (you)" is already perfect. Thus, living in the moment, consciously, one not only recognises and enjoys it's perfection but is freed-up to move to the next moment (and several nexts), in peace and with one's full energy, to continue or change it, as per one's learning in the present moment.

Alternately, one might start but never complete a task if one has decided not to stop until "it" is perfect.

Or under the "Nirvana fallacy", not even start one's project (said to occur when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists (and the currently presented solution is imperfect) or that the current solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it were implemented..

'In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Su***de in Globalising South India' reviewed by Dr Tom Widger - Centre for Medical Humanities

"Nobody can imagine how tough my training is..... . My coach said..he wouldn't want this kind of training for his daughter or son. But when you really want something, you go out there and forget the pain."
Carolina Marin, 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist - Badminton.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/badminton/nobody-can-understand-how-tough-my-life-is-carolina-marin/articleshow/56367922.cms

Nobody can understand how tough my life is: Carolina Marin - Times of India