Pulling Up Your Crop..!
How often we are so impatient to see the results of some effort we are putting into some venture or other! We might have to study day and night and wonder whether it is worth it and whether we are wasting our time. “If only we could see our future!”…
Be Still and Get Things Done..!
Something that all religious leaders, prophets and spiritual people always did and do, is to retire to places where they are alone and where they can be still. We see this with Buddha, with Christ and I doubt there’s even a single spiritual person who does not do this today,…
Be Still, Before the Kill..!
Many years ago I found that the best way to conduct a meeting was to remain calm when harsh words were thrown at you, and I learned a lot from trying to feed my dog who was not too interested in eating “Eat!” I would shout at my German -Shepherd,…
Cutting Vegetables..!
I wrote this as I sat at a home for the aged and someone I’d come to meet over there hadn’t turned up so I had a little time, and I pulled my iPad out and started to write. ‘As I look up I see the most serious activity going…
When I’m Wrong..!
It is accurately said that it is easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers. But it seems that feather rufflers will always be around. We’re told that 19th Century German statesman Prince Otto von Bismarck once became so incensed at the criticism of a professor, that he…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.