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On being non-suffering

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on November 1, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Detachment, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Let's Talk Happyness, Life Lessons, Non-Suffering, Pause & Reflect, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Unhappiness, Why Me?, Why?, ZenTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Beauty, Celebrate Life, Desires, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Magic, Magic and Beauty of Life, Miracles, Non-Suffering, Pain, Pain is a great Teacher, Pain Is Inevitable Suffering Is Optional, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Wants, Why Me?, Why?Leave a comment on On being non-suffering

Creation is all magic

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on February 4, 2021Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Life Lessons, the happynesswalaTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Creation, Divinity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Magic, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Creation is all magic

Open up the palms of your empty hands in surrender…

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on April 30, 2020Format ImageCategories Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Abundance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Grace, Happiness, Inner Peace, Let Go, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Logic, Magic, Spirituality, Surrender, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Total Surrender, Uncategorized, UnclingLeave a comment on Open up the palms of your empty hands in surrender…

A celebration is waiting for you at every step

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 7, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, Beauty, Celebrating Life, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Happiness is Free, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Magic, Miracle, Miracles, Romance, Serendipity, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, UncategorizedLeave a comment on A celebration is waiting for you at every step

There is no logic to Life, it is all magic!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Education, Fall Like A Rose Petal, God, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Logic, Magic, Money, Prayer, Saranagati, Spirituality, the happynesswala, Total Surrender, Uncategorized, WisdomLeave a comment on There is no logic to Life, it is all magic!

Embrace your pain

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on April 11, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Pain, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Beauty, Embrace your pain, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Magic, Pain, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, Total Acceptance, Total Surrender, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Embrace your pain

Take it as it comes

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 31, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anger, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Beauty, Embrace your pain, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Grief, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, It is what it is, Let Go, Life, Magic, Master Plan, Pain, Reality, Spirituality, Stress, Suffering, the happynesswala, Uncategorized, UncertaintyLeave a comment on Take it as it comes

Only when you are free can you live happily!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Beauty, Bhagavad Gita, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Habit, Happiness, Impermanence, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Let Go, Letting Go, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Magic, Opinions, Pain, Possession, Possessor, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, Transcience, Uncategorized, Uncling1 Comment on Only when you are free can you live happily!

No logic to Life, it’s just magic, pure magic!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 9, 2019March 9, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Faith, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiration, Inspiring Happyness, Let Go, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Magic, Miracle, Motivational Quotes, Needs, Spirituality, the happynesswala, Total Acceptance, Total Surrender, Trust, Trust Life, Trust the process of Life, Uncategorized, Wants1 Comment on No logic to Life, it’s just magic, pure magic!

Magic!!! How a ring became a pumpkin!

Suspend all scientific reasoning and simply see how beautiful each moment is.

A friend and I got together for a drink last week. He told me that he had concluded that Life is meaningless, that it has no logic. He has been through a bitter divorce. And he has recently lost his job. He said, “I loved my wife dearly. But she wanted to reunite with her boyfriend from college. I gave my heart and soul to my company. But just because the industry we operate in is going through a downturn, I was laid off as part of a sweeping job-cut policy. There’s no logic in Life at all yaar, AVIS!”

Unwittingly, my friend has stumbled upon the biggest secret about Life. That it has no logic! To me, Life’s full of magic though!!

To see the magic in you, in your Life, around you, you must stop being an adult, abandon all logic and just see everything with a child-like wonder.

While our logical temperament has been honed by years of education and social conditioning and while it has helped us grow our careers, it has really stunted our evolution as individuals. Consider your own Life. You too, like me, like my friend there, have problems. And, logically, you want those problems resolved. So if the problem is financial, you may want your income to go up and your expenses to come down. Logical thinking. But what do you do when your efforts at boosting your income come to a naught? You get depressed. Depression leads to scarcity and negative thinking. If your problem is a relationship, you will want to sit down and resolve it. But the other party is just not interested. You grieve. You suffer. If your problem is your health, logically, medication should work. But the doctors are wringing their hands in despair, because they say their efforts are not working. You start believing it’s all over. In all this logical thinking, in all three contexts, you are tormented, you are anxious and you are not present in your every waking moment. You are living in your problems.

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And this is where you are missing the magic of the present. Of the myriad opportunities that Life is still offering you. Remember that despite all the problems you are faced with and are seemingly drowning in, Life is flowing, unraveling itself. Magically. There’s magic everywhere. In the rising sun. In the chirping birds. In the smile of a child. In the few friends who are still standing by you. In the fact that you have a home, food to eat and someone to call family. When you are allowing yourself to be gripped in the stranglehold of your problems, you are missing all this magic.

Your being wedded to your problems may appear to you to be very logical – after all, you want to solve your problems. But there are some problems that you cannot solve. Only time and Life can heal and solve them. This is why being stuck demanding to understand Life’s logic kills your ability to see all the magic. As American author Nora Roberts says, “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”

I experienced this extraordinary part of my Life yesterday – one more time! Vaani and I were at a wedding last evening. As we awaited our turn to greet the young couple, we saw a picture from their engagement show up on the LCD display – they were exchanging rings. I remarked to Vaani that I had never given her a ring in all our Life together – not even at our wedding, 28 years ago! So I quipped that I would get her a cheap, plastic ring for Rs.10/- because that’s what we could afford now! (Read more on why we can’t afford anything better here: Fall Like A Rose Petal) Vaani smiled back at me and told me this with a straight face: “You know what, get me a pumpkin instead, I plan to make sambar tomorrow!” We both erupted laughing even as other guests looked on, amused.

That moment, that was sheer magic! Such moments are waiting to happen to you too. But are you tuned in? You don’t have to do much. Simply, love the Life you have! Know that it won’t last forever. Abandon all logic. Then, and only then, will you see the magic – and beauty – in Life!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on December 19, 2016December 19, 2016Categories Celebrate Life, Life, UncategorizedTags Abundance, Abundance Thinking, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Depression, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Logic, Magic, Magic and Beauty of Life, Nora Roberts, Postpone Worrying, Scarcity Thinking, Uncategorized, Vaani, Worry1 Comment on Magic!!! How a ring became a pumpkin!

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