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“All actions, Arjuna, are performed by Prakriti, the modes of Nature.
The ignorant, deluded by the ego, think, ‘I am the doer.”

Excerpt From
'Invincible Arjuna”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Invincible Arjuna

“The real opposite of happiness is selfishness”
― Debashis Chatterjee, One Minute Wisdom: Transformative Coaching for Life, Learning and Leadership

“Action is much more than random motion of the body and the mind. True action is born of wonder. When our heart, mind and our entire human capacity is invested in what we do, we get to see true action. The deeper the root of our action goes within our being the more spontaneous our action becomes. True action is indeed not random motion – like goods moving unconsciously through an assembly line. Action is the movement of the conscious being towards a larger purpose.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, The Other 99%: You Can Dare To Lead

“love generates our social and parental instincts, builds friendships, unites lovers and creates an affinity between people in organizations. In the larger spiritual realm, love raises the human organism beyond the pursuit of physical and social needs towards a greater integration with the cosmos.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“Think of a problem, any problem, as a pinch of salt. If you put that pinch of salt in a spoonful of water, the water will taste very salty. Now, if you put the same pinch of salt into a cup of water, the water will be a little less salty. Now, if you put the same pinch of salt into a cup of water, the water will be a little less salty. Now, if you put the same pinch of salt in a lake full of water, the salt will almost vanish. When the conscious energy that you are expands to become like a vast lake of water, your problems will most certainly go away. You will have the greater ability to cope with your problems. This human ability, called awareness, is able to see the resort beyond the barriers.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Invincible Arjuna

“Knowledge belongs to time, wisdom emerges from the timeless.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, One Minute Wisdom: Transformative Coaching for Life, Learning and Leadership

“Our basic instinct is something that is innate to us. It is not something we pursue or learn. A bird does not learn to sing. A bird is instinctively ‘songful’. Similarly a human being does not have to learn to be joyful. We are instinctively joyful. The reason we do not experience joy is that we have learnt its exact opposite – to be sorrowful. Sorrow is mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss of despair. While pain is physical, sorrow and misery are mental states. Sometimes pain cannot be avoided, however, sorrow can be unlearnt. This is simply because sorrow is not real, sorrow is a mental make-up.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Can You Teach A Zebra Some Algebra?

“Leaders co-create their reality not just by reflection but by asking the right questions. In the creative process, a question is a quest. Answers are dead ends. An answer is a blind alley through which no further movement of the mind is possible. When leaders live in questions they are able to navigate the complex problems of life and arrive at simple yet profound solutions. Complexities of the life arise because of our normal thinking process is not able to grasp our reality. So we need creativity in thinking. Creativity is a discontinuity in our thinking process. Creativity comes with sustained questioning of our old assumptions about reality.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, The Other 99%: You Can Dare To Lead

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. (Gibran 1970)”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Karma Sutras : Leadership and Wisdom in Uncertain Times

“There is a difference between a learned man and a man of learning. A learned man is tied to the knowledge of the past. A man of learning is curious about the present. A learned man is bent over with dead wood of knowledge, like an aging tree. A man of learning is vibrant and inquisitive, like a green twig breaking out of the soil after the rains”
― Debashis Chatterjee, Can You Teach A Zebra Some Algebra?

“Success comes when we calm down and let our mind do what we already know how to do.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, One Minute Wisdom: Transformative Coaching for Life, Learning and Leadership