The most beautiful spot in the universe.

There is a place you can come where everything is beautiful. Tourists go from place to place looking for beauty. They try to take beauty from that place. They only get tired and tanned. Yet the most beautiful spot anywhere is right here. When you come here, you find that wherever you are, everything is so beautiful.

Where is this place? Don't look here and there. Where do you go? Within you. When you come here, then any place is beautiful. Then wherever you go, you add beauty there. If you are unhappy, even the moon is irritating to you. Sweet things are nauseating, music is disturbing.

When you are calm and centred inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid sunshine. Book yourself on a trip to this most beautiful place in the universe. Then you find that every day is a vacation and a celebration.

And don't worry about things you can't control.

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Why I Wake Early

 

"Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who make the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and crotchety -

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light -

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness".

- Mary Oliver

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, the chores and was ready well in time. I went to the Foundation by a half past 10 in an Uber auto rickshaw. Accompanied Pannian Ravindran and Maman to Kuttu's house as Pannian sir wanted to offer condolences.

Returned and met Biju, an advocate practising in the Supreme Court. Had an early lunch with him and went out to town to see shuttered shops because of lockdown.

Met Kummanam Rajettan at his party office to discuss an idea.

Returned by a half past 6, watched two Malayalam serials and participated in the webinar "Importance of Reading to Survive in the 21st Century" by Basheerhamad Shadrach.