Abandon Yourself!

Alexander the Great, the Greek king, once led his troops across a hot, arid desert. After nearly two weeks of marching, he and his soldiers were near death from thirst, yet Alexander pushed ahead.

In the noonday sun, two of his scouts brought what little water they were able to find. It barely filled a cup. Alexander's troops were shocked with he poured the water into the burning sand.

The king said, "It is of no use for one to drink when many thirst."

Treating those who report to you as partners or associates will not work if it's only a scheme of a strategy. It must be a genuine heart-felt expression.

When we truly believe in the potential of people, they rarely disappoint us. That is one of the messages of Max DePree, in his perceptive book, "Leadership is an Art." He recommends becoming "abandoned to the strength of others -- of admitting that we cannot know or do everything."


Story That I believe in ---
Manjari

Famous People Says

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Provoking Thoughts

1)
A leader is person where his team mates are abounded by a sheet of trust.

2)
" Whenever you want to know how rich you are, don't count your money; just drop a tear from your eye and see how many hands are there to wipe it."

3)
The biggest change you can bring in the society is to change yourself.

4)
Before criticizing anybody, think are you worth doing so? if answer is yes! think again.

5)
Make life an experience to cherish..

Why should we pray?

WE WORSHIP god in innumerable forms, as his manifestations are innumerable. But there is one long documented question that sometimes overwhelm me in wonder and sometimes stuns me. And that is- ‘why should I pray’?

Some do it for self realisation, while others do it to see god face to face and attain ‘moksha’ (salvation). But I am still on my way to discover the absolute truth. As I have not yet found him, but I am still looking for him. And it is right to chase the reason as far as one could.

The more deeper I go into the thought, the more perplexed I become. I sometimes wonder is ‘god just an idea’, who was invented by someone to frighten people into subservience to the prevailing structure of power. Or to provide ease in times of fear and distress. I find myself totally submissive referring to him as being. I feel the need to understand the dimensions of this eternal truth.

The very existence of god is indefinable. No one knows how, where and why god exists.

And if his very existence is uncertain, then do we pray to Lord for faith alone? Is it true that we are more protected by his grace and not by our work and good deeds?

What is that extra credit, which one acquires while praising Lord? Will I commit a sin if I don’t worship him? And if I do, will it benefit me in any way? Will worshipping Lord really help me elevate my status in the paradise?

Should we believe that ‘god alone is real and all else is unreal’?

After analysing all these facts, should I bow before the Lord as a big question mark?

Or is it better to go as far as the reason could take me?

Aparana Chauhan

Age of Romanticism

“ Make me thy, even as the forest is :
What if my leaves are falling like its own !
The tumult of the mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet tough in sadness
Be thou, spirit, fierce;
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!”

The liquid ecstasy of the above mentioned words was indited in the period, popularly known as the ‘Age of Romanticism’ between 1800 –1850.

In the English Literature the 'Age of Romanticism' is also known as the ‘Second Creative Period of English Literature’. In the history this period recorded the victory of triumph in literature as well as of Democracy in government and politics.
The correlation between the two movements closely depicted the cause and effect theory in them.

The black letters in the history books loudly outcry the hullaballoo and disturbance of the 19^th century political violence in England. As soon as all that was over, humanistic study of a body of literature, suddenly developed a new creative spirit, mused deeply in the words of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane Auste Byron, Shelley; and other terrific writers that belong to that period. Their patriotic ebullience actually caused their age to become the second originative and creative period of English Literature, causing the English language to prosper and thrive in the whole world and flourish at a high point in the history of England.

The inwardness of the ‘Age of Romanticism’ was that literature must reverberate what was spontaneous and untouched in nature and in man, should be unconstrained and must be free to follow its own fancy in its own way.

Than another prominent attribute or aspect was that it was unquestionable and beyond doubt an age of poetry. The essence of this age lies in the poetic words of Scott, Wordsworth, Keats, Southey and others.

The most surprising characteristic of this period is that – women for the first time obtained the respectable and important status in Literature, as for the first time got the chance to be educated and be a part of the intellectual life of the society. Another major contributory component was perhaps the French Revolution (1789), which stirred Europe to its depth, characterized as it was strong emotion. For now the more emotional sex marked its importance on the pages of literature.

It was during this time when literary criticism made its appearance on the journals such as Blackwoods Magazine, The Edinburgh etc. As if now the writers got the chance to show his ability to the world. In short the ‘Age of Romanticism’ left an unerasable notion on the creative sensibility of future generations.

Aparana Chauhan