Pearls of Wisdom: Birds of Same Feather: How Friends Change Your Life?
By Upendra Mishra
In the end, we become like the company we keep, the close friends we have, our family members and spouse or people...
Pearls of Wisdom: Heart of Awareness
By Upendra Mishra
WESTON, MA—When growing up in India, we were exposed to stories of Ramayana everywhere, and obviously we all came to know the...
Pearls of Wisdom: Accept the Almighty Death, Make it Your Friend and Live Freely...
By Upendra Mishra
Only after we cross our teenage and enter our twenties, we start to think about death—but may be not necessarily about our...
Pearls of Wisdom: How We Become Our Own Slave and How We Can Free...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—In the opening paragraph of Ashtavakra Gita, King Janak asks sage Ashtavakra: “O Master, tell me how to find detachment, wisdom, and...
Pearls of Wisdom: The Power of Vulnerability, Weakness and Imperfection
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—A friend of mine had been insisting that I should watch a Bollywood movie "Kabir Singh" as she had observed some similarity...
Pearls of Wisdom: Thought, Action, Feeling, Authenticity and Happiness
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—I recently read an article that was appropriately titled: “Are Authentic People More Mindful” in Psychology Today. This article explained authenticity and...
Pearls of Wisdom: Truth, Fiction and the Social Media Delusion
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—"Is it truth or fiction?” I asked. “What difference does it make?” he replied. “Sometimes, in fact, most of the time, truth...
Pearls of Wisdom: Only Two or Eight Seasons?
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON--Close friends of mine who have known me well enough or have camped with me in the mountains or the nature wild...
Pearls of Wisdom: Excellence is a Habit and Chanakya’s Three Questions
BOSTON—Twenty years ago when we bought our home, I set up a small home office in the basement. Those days we needed huge space...
Pearls of Wisdom: Pilgrimage to India-2: Stitching Together Scattered Pieces of Love
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—We all have grown with fairy tale stories of romance, love and happily thereafter. I am sure it is true for some,...
