Insights from meaningful mornings

Reviewing the notes from meaningful mornings, was a wonderful opportunity to reflect more. So many great insights were shared by Vivekji. I am sharing these only from Day # 1-Day #15.

I’m going to call this too as- Forty rules of Love -2 ( it’s namesake is my favorite book by Turkish author- Elif Shafak). In this book by Shafak, forty rules were given by Shams Tabrizi to Rumi; from a guru to his shishya.

1. Pandemic create panic. Replace word ‘pandemic’ with Challenge.
2. 2. Challenge is an opportunity to build character, focus, compassion and resilience.
3. 3. Create inner schedule and inner discipline.
4. 4. Our default setting should be positive.
5. 5. When you meet someone for the first time, do you respect them or suspect them? Think!
6. 6. If you cannot go outside, go INSIDE.
7. 7. Daily intake of Vitamin R3 ( Run, Read, Research), makes the morning meaningful
8. 8. Purpose pulls performance
9. 9. This challenge is guiding us towards slowing down
10. 10. Slow Down, Step Back, See More, Smile On.
11. 11. Only if you know where your mind is, you can use that mind.
12. 12. Family that learns together, grows together.
13. 13. We are interdependent. We should not be dependent.
14. 14. Our interdependence should have synergy
15. 15. Loneliness is not context based. It’s content based.
16. 16. That what’s meaningful never changes.
17. 17. Pursuit of Peace is changeless.
18. 18. Interdependence is functional; dependence is fundamental.
19. 19. Where there is ideal, mind is checked.
20. 20. A smarter and efficient way to nurture ideal is to develop ideal purpose.
21. 21. To nurture ideals- Revolve around inspiring people, around inspiring peoples ideas and around inspiring thoughts.
22. 22. Yoga is not exercise. Yoga is bettering your life
23. 23. Solitary confinement is FOMO; solitude is JOMO.
24. 24. Quieter the mind, happier the personality.
25. 25. Only a happy person can be a solution.
26. 26. Peace is The Only priority
27. 27. Meaning comes from reflection and application
28. 28. Feel appreciated even when no one appreciates us.
29. 29. I don’t need more friends. I need to be friends with my mind.
30. 30. Meaning is intrinsic.
31. 31. Life is an Infinite Sum game.
32. 32. Love, Peace, Faith are unilateral
33. 33. When our outer environment is confusing, our inner environment becomes doubt -filled.
34. 34. Choose your environment wisely.
35. 35. “If you don’t enjoy your own company why inflict it upon others”. ( Guruji)
36. 36. Train yourself in controlled environment, Test in uncontrolled environment.
37. 37. The current challenge is a pause in our lifestyles, not a stop!
38. 38. Challenge without purpose is a problem. Challenge with a purpose leads to training.
39. 39. More important than what to Think is how to think.
40. 40. Being Happy is easy!!

These are another ‘Forty rules of love’.

More to follow.

If we love Life; if we have internalized the depth and meaning of the meaningful mornings, then only will we practice these rules.