“When facing a Life-changing crisis, don’t expect your situation to turn around instantaneously. It won’t. So, prepare for the long haul. Nourish yourself. Meditate. Pray. Eat your meals on time and please eat healthy stuff. Exercise. Go for long walks. Goof off once in a while. Your being morose, or your worrying stiff, is not going to solve your problems. The situation will resolve only when the time arrives. Until that happens, you have to last, you have to survive. So, take care of yourself. Every moment. Every day.” HappinessLife LessonsMeditationCrisisAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaEquanimityLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Adulting is serious stuff. Yes, it is cool to be independent and getting to do your own thing. But with freedom comes responsibility. Where you are not just responsible for taking care of yourself or earning enough to pay your bills, but you are also responsible for facing Life and dealing with its upheavals and surprises. There are no right or wrong ways to face Life. Everyone has to do what they believe they have to do at a particular moment and keep going. Eventually, you will figure out why what happened to you was part of your own myth unfolding. So, if you are a young adult and are up against a wall, keep the faith and keep walking. Doors will always open, the path will always appear...” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaLife CoachingAdulting Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“True enlightenment arrives the moment you understand the difference between your wants and your needs. When you awaken to this understanding, you will realize that Life has always been providing for you, caring for you, giving you all that you need. This is how you stop wanting anything, anymore and start living with what you have, with what is. This is how you learn to be happy despite your circumstances.” HappinessLife LessonsEnlightenmentAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“When someone chooses not to understand you, despite your best efforts, you may want to examine whether they are not getting what you are saying or if they simply don’t want to understand you. If it is the latter, Life is so much simpler for both of you – there is no need to invest any more time and energy in striving for that understanding. The brutal truth that you often fail to confront is the fact that someone who is keen not to understand you, perhaps never will, no matter how hard you try!” HappinessLife LessonsMisunderstandingAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaEquanimity Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Permanence is an illusion. Nothing lasts. When this awareness arrives in your Life, you awaken to Happiness – to embracing what is, to finding meaning and Purpose in what is and to be content with what is.” HappinessLife LessonsPurposeAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaImpermanence Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Being happy professionally is really the ability to do what you love doing the way you want to do it. Which is, if you have a natural talent and you have honed it to a world-class standard, you want the creative and professional space to express this talent your way. However, because your customers – both paying customers and society at large – want to control what they want from you, there may be times when you feel suffocated and unhappy. Ask yourself: is it worth doing something for money or social acclaim/validation at the cost of your inner peace or Happiness? If the answer to this question is ‘no’ – choose to be ‘humbly ruthless’. Be unflinching and non-negotiable on your professional and creative standards. Yet take that position with all humility, knowing fully well that someone else may fulfil that need for your customer should you opt out. Surprisingly though, 9 times out of 10, people may come back and work with you. The one deal that breaks off may have never made you happy; so, really, no sweat there! This is the key to Happiness – being ‘humbly ruthless’!” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe Happynesswala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“When you are confronted with many problems at the same time, don’t be overwhelmed or emotional and attempt to solve all of them at the same time. You simply can’t. Approach your problems with basic project management skills. Sort your problems into different buckets: A. which ones cannot be solved ever B. which ones cannot be solved by you C. which ones can be solved by you over time and D. which ones can be solved by you immediately? Obviously, go to work today on bucket D, while planning to schedule time and collaborations to address buckets C and B. Of course, learn to accept those in bucket A with humility and equanimity and move on. This is the only way you can focus sharply, be calm and find strength in a storm and be happy!” HappinessLife LessonsCrisisProblemsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Religion is a human invention. It is a device with which a few people control the masses, employing fear and divisiveness. Allowing ourselves to be divided on the lines of religion is being outright stupid. Because judging and alienating – hating – another human being causes, above all, your own suffering.” GodHappinessLife LessonsReligionSpiritualityFearAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe Happynesswala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Violent thought affects your inner peace and Happiness more than you can ever imagine. When you are on the street and you use an expletive to yell at an errant road user, that is violent thought. This tendency to think ill of someone, even if you have been provoked or wronged, has to cease. This is the ahimsa that Gandhi talked about. It wasn’t just about violent action being given up, it was also about violent thought ceasing. When you train your mind to be non-violent in thought, and of course action, that is when you will discover that you are the Happiness that you seek!” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaNon ViolenceAhimsa Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“You have to be clear that, often times, in fact almost always, despite your best efforts, perfection and success may elude you. So, the only way to stay anchored, and at peace with yourself and with your world, is to embrace what is. If you tried hard, if you put in your best, just celebrate the process of trying, of doing your best…leave the results and outcomes to Life. You can never get a perfect 10! And what you have is what it is. When you embrace this idea and live your Life, you will never be keyed up over the outcomes. You will enjoy the process, above all. And that is the key to your Happiness!” HappinessLife LessonsPerfectionAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaEquanimity Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“When you start viewing another person’s Life and wonder “how’s it that they are having a good time when I am not?”, well then, you have invited suffering into your own Life! Be sure…1. You don’t know their story and don’t quite know if they are really having a ‘good’ time and 2. It’s their Life and another person’s Life is none of your business! Seriously. So, to be happy, stop comparing yourself with others. Period.” HappinessLife LessonsComparisonAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe Happynesswala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Dealing with toxic people is an art that can be learnt. Whether it is in a family, among friends or at the workplace, exercise a choice to establish and maintain clear contours of your relationship with such people. Define very clearly in your mind what about this person irks you. And draw the line there. The point is not whether others can get along with such people, the point is that you cannot suffer them. So, when others ask you to be “adjusting”, you must tell them why you can’t do this – that it affects your inner peace. Once you define and draw the boundaries clearly, barring the initial settling in issues, pretty soon, everyone will see value in your approach. Clearly, there’s no point sacrificing your Happiness for another’s behavior or your reluctance to call them out!” HappinessLife LessonsNegativityAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe Happynesswala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Life is eventually about things, people, relationships, projects, opportunities money, health and even memories - all of them being taken away from you! Life is about constantly embracing new normals, it is about finding meaning, Purpose, beauty and Happiness in what is!” HappinessLife LessonsPurposeAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Once you understand the power of meditation, you don’t even need to engage in it as a practice. You don’t need to then set aside a particular time of the day for meditation as an activity. In that state, you are that; you are meditative in everything that you do. There is a mindful, immersive quality to your Life then. Surely, debilitating emotions and disturbing thoughts will come calling, but your awareness, your mindfulness, helps you to not pick them up. You see them, you feel them, but you let them pass. This discerning ability to choose wisely is the biggest gift that meditation delivers. This is what helps you to be happy despite your circumstances.” HappinessLife LessonsMeditationAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“What others think of you, or what they say or do to you, is their business; not yours! They have a right to their opinions. And you must just let them be. It is when you try to change their opinion of you that you grieve – and often suffer. Instead, be unmoved by their choices, their utterances, and just be true to yourself. You will then be fearless and unaffected by all that is happening around you.” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaOpinionsLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Life, at the end of the day, is a simple mindgame. This means, essentially, that you learn to control your thoughts, that you learn to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering. Then, no matter what you are going through, you live a better, fuller, happy Life.” HappinessLife LessonsSpiritualityAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Whatever it is, take it as it comes. This is surely never easy. But when you understand that you can’t win fighting Life, you will realize that this is the only option. So, going with the flow is not quite a spiritual or romantic, feel-good, concept as it is made out to be. It is an intelligent choice, driven by plain common sense, of doing what you possibly can in a given situation. When you awaken to this truth, you will be happy despite your circumstances.” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaGo With The Flow Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“A painful situation arrives in your Life simply because it was meant to. It is never because your “energies are negative” or that you are being “punished for past sins”. Your pain is here to teach you Life lessons. Which is why extraordinary pain is a sign of grace, of a great teacher arriving in your Life to transform you, to make you resilient, wise and happy!” PainHappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe Happynesswala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Your Bliss is your fuel! It is your alarm clock…it is your Americano...it is your double large Single Malt on the rocks!! It will wake you up, keep you awake, lead you, draw you in, drive you and, importantly, it will give you a perpetual high!” HappinessBlissAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaFollow Your Bliss Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Make your Bliss the reason why you live and then watch the magic unfold. All that you need will flow to you on its own! Every single time!!!” HappinessPurposeBlissPurpose Of LifeAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe Happynesswala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“When your work becomes your prayer, Life becomes meaningful. We are conditioned to imagine that work is a means to earn a living. But what if you made your work the reason why you live, the raison d’etre for your Happiness, for your living? Think: how happy you possibly can be when what you do every day is your prayer, your selfless offering to a Higher Energy, to the creator. Simply, instead of making money the object, make your work your prayer and strive for world-class excellence…money, over time, will eventually flow to you, just as everything you need will!” HappinessLife LessonsPrayerBlissAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaFollow Your Bliss Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Your job is to set out on Life’s journey as a voyager, which you already have by having been born (an act that, well, happened beyond you!). Life’s job is to reach you to the shore, which it eventually will, but not before it has tossed you up and down and churned your insides several times over. So, don’t sweat over anything. It is simply not worth it! Remember: your Life’s happening exactly the way it must. Train your mind to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering. Be happy! Let Life take over, you simply go with the flow…!” LifeLife LessonsSpiritualityAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalThe HappynesswalaLife CoachLife Coaching Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Train your mind to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering. And then feel the difference. Non-worrying does not mean that worries will not arise; it means you won't pick up a worry and give it any attention or power. Non-frustrated does not mean inaction or resignation; it means you will not feel defeated when your efforts to fix whatever you want changed in your Life repeatedly come unstuck. And non-suffering does not mean you are free from pain; it means you have learned to co-live with extreme pain by choosing to not ask 'why' or 'why me'. Now, when you are non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering, you are happy. Simple.” HappinessAvis ViswanathanThe HappynesswalaFall Like A Rose Petala Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“There is no greater state to attain in Life than when you are able to recognize that you are merely an instrument for divinity to work through you, for your spiritual talent to flow through you.” HappinessLife LessonsSpiritualityDivinityAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessFollow Your BlissThe HappynesswalasThe Blisscatchers Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Surrendering to Life does not mean inaction. It means trusting Life’s cyclical process and going with the flow. It means making your best efforts every single day and remaining non-frustrated even when you don’t get the results that you expect.” HappinessLife LessonsSpiritualitySurrenderAvis ViswanathanDetachmentLet GoThe HappynesswalasFall Like Rose PetalVaani Avis On Happyness Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Take your anger and pour it into your Bliss, into what you believe in, into what you love doing…and then watch the magic!” HappinessLife LessonsAngerBlissAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalasThe Bliss Catchers Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“When the cost of not doing something that you love doing is more than the cost of actually doing it, you make wise, informed, decisions. You then follow your bliss and learn to be happy with yourself, doing what you love doing, regardless of your circumstances or of what people think of you!” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaFollow Your BlissThe Bliss Catchers Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Craving to be celebrated by others will often leave you unhappy. Instead, celebrate yourself by immersing yourself in what you love doing. This holds the key to your Happiness.” HappinessLife LessonsSpiritualityAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaFollow Your BlissThe Bliss Catchers Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Following your bliss makes you come alive. It offers immersive experiences. It dissolves the pulls and pressures of your worldly existence. It is very deep and purposeful. But you will do well to consider crafting a fine business model around your bliss. Without doubt, bliss makes Life meaningful. It makes you happy. But when your bliss delivers profits, you can do a lot more with, and in, this one lifetime.” HappinessLife LessonsAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessFollow Your BlissThe HappynesswalasThe Bliss Catchers Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“There is a unique spiritual talent in each of us. Only when we immerse ourselves in engaging with this talent, in expressing it, in sharing what we create with it, are we truly happy.” HappinessLife LessonsBlissAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaFollow Your BlissThe HappynesswalasThe Bliss Catchers Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“You are bound to lose any game if you play only for fame – and money. This includes the game of Life. Whatever you do, do it for love, out of love. Play following your bliss, enjoying the process, celebrating your spiritual talent, and you will always feel content and happy. Your Happiness is your true reward. It is priceless! Employ your Happiness to get better and better at the game you play, to be among the best in your field. Success and money – and often fame too – will then flow to you!” HappinessSuccessLife LessonsMoneyFameAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe Happynesswalas Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Human choices, actions, opinions and analyses – all these are always inadequate in the context of the larger cosmic design. Ultimately time is a great leveler. Time is all-powerful. Whoever you are, when it is your time to rule, you will. When it is your time to fall, you will. When it is your time to rise, you will rise – again. And when it is your time to go, you will have to go. Simply, you cannot negotiate with Life – or death. Embracing what is, doing what you can possibly do in a given situation and going with the flow of Life is Happiness.” HappinessTimeSpiritualityAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalasCosmic Design Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Life’s pretty simple. If doing something makes you unhappy, and you can avoid it, don’t do it. And more often than you can imagine, most of the stuff that makes you unhappy is avoidable! And if you can’t avoid it, do it with full acceptance, without complaining about it. That’s a sure way to be happy despite the circumstances.” HappinessLife LessonsSpiritualityUnhappinessAvis ViswanathanAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaNon Complaining Author:AVIS Viswanathan
“Life’s beauty lies in staying loving...in the present continuous, irrespective of the circumstances.” HappinessLife LessonsMarriageAvis ViswanathanFall Like A Rose PetalAvis On HappynessThe HappynesswalaFall In LoveThe Happynesswalas Author:AVIS Viswanathan