Pearls of Wisdom: Your Journey is Unfolding Exactly as it Should Be
By Upendra Mishra
WALTHAM, MA—I don’t know who wrote this: “Your journey is unfolding exactly as it should be.” But this quote on a canvass...
Pearls of Wisdom: The Eternal Mantra of Knowing Thyself: A Path to Understanding Your...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—For millennia, philosophers from both Eastern and Western traditions have underscored the importance of the phrase “Know Thyself.” This ancient wisdom was...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-3: Trysts on the Stairs, the Irony of Destiny,...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—I had moved to a new town with my uncle and aunt. I was about 16 and had enrolled in the local...
Pearls of Wisdom: The Unfinished Love
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—If you’re lucky, I mean really lucky, you will fall in love—a love that merges two people together forever, and in such...
Pearls of Wisdom: The Disease of One More Thing, Time and the Story of...
BOSTON—Most of us eventually realize and understand the concept of time. After running as fast as we could and miss the beauty of small...
Pearls of Wisdom: Dreams, the Shadow, Carl Jung and the 12 Rules for Success,...
By Upendra Mishra
I have no idea when and how I got interested in Swiss physician and psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961) and his writings, analysis...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-6: Love is Complicated, Mexico Chalo
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—As my trip to Mexico was nearing fruition towards the end of 1983 in JNU, my love and romance had literally gone...
Pearls of Wisdom: Self Help, Napoleon Hill, Your Thought and Ancient Wisdom
By Upendra Mishra
When I was working at the Boston Business Journal, one of my jobs was to write profiles of founders and CEOs of...
Pearls of Wisdom: Freedom, Happiness and the Ashtavakra
By Upendra Mishra
WESTON, MA—Most of us are familiar with the Bhagavad Gita, often referred to simply as the Gita. It is a dialogue between...
Pearls of Wisdom: Love, Pleasure, Duty and Other Lessons
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—The beauty of long winter nights in New England is that it becomes darker early and forces us to wind down our...
