Tea Break With Life

Since time immemorial, the idea of miracles have always fascinated human beings. In stories, myths, life instances, culture, there is a clear urge to attribute something as a ‘miracle’! The question regarding authenticity of those miracles are beyond the scope of our blog and also beyond my understanding to meaningfully answer. But what if this search is pointing to something deeper, something so obvious that we miss it in our daily experience? What if, we are the very miracle we seek? What if the very existence of life and everything around is in itself the miracle we seek? Well that’s just a beautiful way of perceiving the simple yet profound gift of life! Well this very miracle if we call it that, seems to be covered by a lot of distractions and disconnected narratives that seem to dominate our world today. It can be exhausting for an average human being in our ever competitive world of 2022. From the news warning us of a climate catastrophe to the mountains of fake news spreading h...

   The cold mornings of December have arrived, irritating alarm sounds disturb your peaceful sleep. Half awake and half asleep you search for the snooze option on your phones, hoping to extend that period of deep rest. Nature too remains in a state of rest, after a year of growth and autumn of letting go, meanwhile the animal kingdom survives on food saved during the summer. Few of the animals are in a deep state of hibernation (long sleep), something a lot my friends may envy about them. In the above ways, each of us welcome and go through the season of winter, a period of rest before the new growth of spring arrives.  Well, now that is the season cycle of nature, but what about the seasons of life? Don't we all go through the springs of new beginnings, success and growth like summer, the autumn of moving on and finally the dark winters of rest? But do we actually understand these cycles and their lessons? Or do we in the modern world try to live in an eternal summer of ...

  What does it mean to be living purposefully? Is it determined by the list of professional achievements on your LinkedIn wall, or by the popularity of your social media presence? Is a purposeful life about being happy all the time as claimed by the champions of toxic positivity?  We indeed live in the most advanced technological age till date, but also in an age of unrealistic expectations. So what then is purposeful living, beyond all the mirage and illusions of commercial marketing. This blog is a humble attempt to put forward my personal view point on the same, welcome to the latest blog from tea break with life.  Exploring The Idea of Purposeful Living:  Today, many people live in a world suffocated by commercial claims that offer you a purposeful life. It fascinates me to look back and observe how this has grown over the years. Today it has reached a point where parents start stressing about their child's school admissions when the child is a newborn. From chil...

New Year’s Eve was upon us, celebrations were in full swing, the world was ready to welcome a new decade. None of us had a clue about what's waiting ahead in 2020. Much has been spoken about the year, it has been a year that has changed each of our lives in a way or the other. The level of impact at varying levels, but there is no denying that most lives were turned upside down over the past 12 months. As we slowly move towards another New Year’s eve, there cannot be a better time to revisit the pages of 2020, and see if there is something that will prove useful for times ahead. The blog will also look at how to remain hopeful in times of uncertainty. The pandemic is slowly taking a down turn, a vaccine is not far away, so a reminder that extra precaution and safety remain important. Now, if you have gone through a rough year, difficult times, don't worry, for you aren’t alone, the world is a large community, we are in this together. Beginning the blog with a line I find extrem...

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Happiness, that one feeling which has been the constant quest of human actions and endeavors.  With thousands of self help books around and with all privileges of life many humans continue to live without being happy. Most of the time the absence of happiness is blamed upon unfulfilled wishes and negative outcomes. Here we face a fundamental question, 'what is happiness dependent upon?'. Is it material object of our desire? Is it a certain sense of accomplishment? Or is it a mental state which is produced as an outcome of the above? Common sense will lead us to the third answer that it is a mental state that is an outcome of material achievements and mental accomplishment. Then rises the question of discussion we have today, if it is a mental state, is it possible to be happy as we wish without the reasons that generally lead to that state? For thousands of years spiritual masters have taught that it is possible and happiness is our normal state. But since here today we don...