<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Food for Thought</title><description>Namaste! I am an avid reader of books and love to listen to Audio books, discourses on Indian philosophy, etc.  My main area of interest is on Self Development, Spirituality, Universality of religions, Radical Forgiveness, Option process, Power Vs. Force, etc.  Get these E-zines to get best from these speakers:

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(Translated from the Chinese). Because none of us have many years to live,and we can't take along anything when we go,so we don't have to be too thrifty...Spend the money that should be spent,enjoy what should be enjoyed,donate what you are able to donate,but don't leave all to your children or grandchildren,for you don't want them to become parasiteswho are waiting for the day you will die!!</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total></item><item><title>Have an Average Day</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2010/06/have-average-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:12:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-9180676905474255015</guid><description>June 22ndSurprising, isn't it?  How many times, we tell children to do their best?  How many times we think of achieving great things and get disappointed?  Read this website and have an average day (and also happiness).     http://haveanaverageday.org/</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Why I read books or attend classes?</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-i-read-books-or-attend-classes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:31:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-993143681270791222</guid><description>Lots of people ask me why I read books, listen to audios, and attend seminars?&amp;nbsp; When is enough?&amp;nbsp; They also wonder when do I get chance to read books?&amp;nbsp; Where do I get references to different books?&amp;nbsp; I always remember following quote:

"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for  the people you meet and the books you read". - attributed to Charles  </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>PDF Metadata Editor (which is affordable)</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2010/06/pdf-editor-which-is-affordable.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:33:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-4726912658064461449</guid><description>Hello,

Last month, I purchased Barnes and Nobles Nook (e-book reader).&amp;nbsp; I have lots of PDF files to read, however, when I tried to load them to Nook, all I got was 1 as title or some other invalid strings as title of the document.&amp;nbsp; So, I searched internet for a good PDF meta character editor and found "A-PDF Rename" tool, which helps to rename the title of the document, author, etc.&amp;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>One and Only You!!!</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2010/03/one-and-only-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:35:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-4480292614299164311</guid><description>Today Morning I found this excellent poem about uniqueness of each one of us.&amp;nbsp;

One And Only You
Every single blad og grass,And ever flake of snow...It just a wee bit different...There's no two alike, you know
From something small, like grains of sandTo each gigantic starAll were made with THIS in mind:To be just what they are!
How foolish then, to imitate---How useless to pretend!Since each</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>If we ALWAYS remember this, life will be beatiful</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2010/01/fwd-if-we-always-remember-this-live.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:26:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-2258741857695436181</guid><description>

Yesterday, someone send me this link to a video "Wills Wisdom". Its amazing and short and sweet messages. Check it out.

Today morning, I got this quote from Swamy's website. Yet another wonderful message. Thank you Swamy for sending these messages again and again so that I can ingrain them in my life.

There is love in one and all. Ther eis none bereft of love in this world. Sometimes, people </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Why should I let him decide what kind of day I am going to have?</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-should-i-let-him-decide-what-kind.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:31:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-8014119260079957605</guid><description>When I sent Four agreements, lots of people said, point two is very key and how easy we forget it.  Here is the second agreement from the Four Agreements (book by Don Miguel Ruiz -- Which is a excellent book by itself and costs less then ten dollars.  I highly recommend you to read.  If you do read or listen to the book, let me know so that we can discuss because these agreements are very close </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>The Principle of the Path</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/05/principle-of-path.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:19:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-2452046146113251228</guid><description>I came across this book through Nelson Publishing.  "The Principle of the Path" is written by Andy Stanley. He is a pastor, author, and founder of North Point Ministries, Inc. Without knowing much, I liked the title and thought of checking it out. Now, I can say that I like the way Andy wrote the book. In the introduction, itself got my attention where he wrote about an incident from his teenage </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Thoughts, Thoughts, Thoughts</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/04/thoghts-thoughts-thoughts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:05:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-466769383713751310</guid><description>"I have Most of the things most people would like. I did not start with them. I created them.  I created them with my mind, with the thoughts I chose to think. I created them by conscious choice. My future, likewise, will be the result of conscious choice. To think is to create." ~Thomas D. WillhiteIn the last blog, I did mention about Thoughts and its importance.  After writing that, I came </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Importance of Reading</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/04/importance-of-reading.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:16:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-4528250341694184496</guid><description>Reading, Reading, Reading... what is the importance of Reading in life?  You are reading this article because you have interest to read and also learned how to read.  When I was back in India, my father always recommended me to read English books, newspapers, magazines.  However, maximum I read during my BS degree was "The Hindu" newspaper and "Coma" novel.  Other than that, I read my textbooks </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Question your mind</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/03/question-your-mind.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:35:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-8447389329911554327</guid><description>Last couple of days, I am listening to "Your Inner Awakening" Audio CD's by Byron Katie.  Are you familiar with her books and work?  If not, visit her website.  I highly recommend to read her books and learn the methods.  Some of the sentences, which stayed with me, from her talk in the Audio CD's are:1. You other person is the reason for my problem, then I am insane.2. Is that true? (this is one</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Learning from "Teaching an Anthill to Fetch"</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/03/learning-from-teaching-anthill-to-fetch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:12:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-1561459143857968405</guid><description>Today, let me give a couple of points from an excellent management book, "Teaching an Anthill to Fetch - Developing Collaborative Intelligence @ Work" by Stephen James Joyce. CQ can be defined as the ability to build, contribute to and manage the power found in networks of people (source: Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together by William Issacs). I highly recommend everyone to read this book.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Another Quote from Sri Sai Baba in Telugu</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-quote-from-sri-sai-baba-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:01:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-3766385366523006058</guid><description>మనస్సును అరికట్టుకోండి!!స్వామి ఆజ్ఞను తప్పక అనుసరించుటే దీక్షగా మీరు తలంచవలెను. దానికి శ్రద్ధ, భక్తీ రెండూ అవసరం.  అదే మీరు చేయవలసిన తపస్సు.  అంతేగాని, దేహమును కృశింపజేయటం కాదు.  పుట్టపైన మర్దించిన పాము మరణించునా!  తనువును దండించిన తత్వజ్ఙానము కలుగునా!  తలంపులను దండింపవలయును.  అటూ ఇటూ సంచరించే గడియారపు పెంద్యులమును నిలిపి వేయవలెననిన, 'కీ'ను యీయకుండిన చాలు.  అట్లే, సంకల్ప వికల్పములనే 'కీ' ను </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>ఉత్తమ సేవ -- Highest Service - Quote</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/03/highest-service-quote.html</link><category>Sathya Sai Baba Telugu Quotes</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:42:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-8091388726436372497</guid><description>Namaste!!!For long time, I was looking for Telugu discourses or quotes from Sri Sathya Sai Baba.  Today, I found one which attracted me, so I am posting it in Telugu here.  If I get English translation of this quote, I will append to it.Sai Ram!!!వాలంటీర్లను అవకాశాలు వెతుక్కుంటూ రావు.  వాళ్లే సేవకు అవకాశాలను వెతుక్కోవాలి.  ఆసక్తితో, సన్నద్ధ చిత్తంతో వెదికితే మే చుట్టూ అవకాశాలెన్నో కనబడగలవు.  </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Fun &amp; info goes hand in hand</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2009/03/fun-info-goes-hand-in-hand.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:33:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-4077900214614123870</guid><description>Hello,Today, I went to Michael Stanier's website which is called "The Possibility Virus".  Very interesting name.  When I checked the movie, "The Eight Irresistible Rules of Fun" and amazed by the creative way of passing the info to the viewer.   Very simple rules.  After watching it, I watched their other movie, "The 5.75 Questions You've been Avoiding" and it is yet another novel way of </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Intro to Jeffrey Gitomer &amp; Sample Chapter from "Teal Book of Trust"</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/12/fwd-trust-sample-chapter-from-book.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:12:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-2239368282529649237</guid><description>Sai Ram,Either New Year started to you or starting (by the time you read this mail).&amp;nbsp; Here is a book you can look for and read in 2009.&amp;nbsp;  For 2009, I thought of introducing Jeffrey Gitomer to you.&amp;nbsp; This guy is a very funny writer (at the same time conveys the ideas and strategies which are useful or meaningful in life).&amp;nbsp; Thought of passing this sample from his new book to you.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Why Is God Laughing?</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-is-god-laughing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:39:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-8452584170038874018</guid><description>In the months of November/December time frame, I had a saga of Deepak Chopra.  It started with "Budda: A Story of Enlightenment" Audio CD's, then "Power, Freedom and Grace: Living from the source of Lasting Happiness" (another excellent book).  I will write my review for these books later.Then I listened to "Why is God Laughing?" audio book by Deepak Chopra.  I really liked the way story was </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Happier Than God</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/12/happier-than-god.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:22:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-3964198720477207252</guid><description>Namste!!!Long time, I didn't post any blogs.  For last one week, I was reading the book, "Happier than God (aka HtG)" by Neil Donald Walsch.  Here is the link to the book details on Amazon.Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary ExperienceIt is a very simple, yet profound book.  I do recommend for both kind of people, one who believe in God and the other type, who don't believe</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>If you Could Hear what I see - Wonderful book</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/09/if-you-could-hear-what-i-see-wonderful.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:38:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-7489213313717813257</guid><description>Hi,After long time, I am posting another book review.  This is about a book called, "If You Could Hear What I see" by Kathy Buckly.  Even though it was written 2001, I came across this book through Mark Victor Hansen's recommendation.  So, I thought of checking it out.I got it in the library and started reading first chapter and didn't able to put it down.  Excellent journey of the author from </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Indian Spiritual Leader Brings Peace to Iraq!!!</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/05/indian-spiritual-leader-brings-peace-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2008 07:08:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-2534400974289866408</guid><description>WATCH the AMAZING video of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar addressing people in Red Zones in Iraq. He spreads the message of non-violence of Mahatma Gandhi that peace can be brought about in a non-violent and democratic manner. Iraqis are provided with the opportunity to do the "Art of Living" program which is bringing about a peaceful transformation.read more | digg story</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Soul of Money</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/04/soul-of-money.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:57:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-4892340813193326286</guid><description>Hello everyone,After long time, I am posting another blog.  Recently, I read a book, "Soul of Money - Lynne Twist".  It was wonderful book and big eye opener.  In this book, she narrates lot of her stories while working with "Hunger Project".  Her childhood heroine is Mother Teresa.  She narrates her story how she met with her and how she was agitated when a couple didn't show respect to Mother </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Divine play and how we react...</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/02/divine-play-and-how-we-react.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:54:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-6034204505864822811</guid><description>Hi,Last week, I attended a seminar, "Radical Forgiveness" in San Diego, CA.  Its a wonderful class.  I wrote an intro to "Radical Forgiveness" in Sept 6th 2006 and sent it to my friends who might be interested about it.  Now I thought of posting it here.  Enjoy.===========  Yesterday, I mentioned to one of my friend about how we attract each person or situation into life.  Asked him to see what </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Divine play and how we react...</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/02/divine-play-and-how-we-react_12.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:54:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-8059133470883291792</guid><description>Hi,Last week, I attended a seminar, "Radical Forgiveness" in San Diago.   Yesterday, I mentioned to one of my friend about how we attract each person or situation into life.  Asked him to see what lesson he needs to learn from that situation.  I also mentioned that if life is a drama, as told by Swamy, then all the persons in life also playing a role.  As soon as their work is complete, they may </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>King - Seven sons - Fish not get dried - Spiritual Meaning of the story</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/02/king-seven-sons-fish-not-get-dried.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:59:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-4632874516613205765</guid><description>I am not sure whether you heard this story or not.  In India, this is very popular story.  I listened to it lots of times and also told my children.  Until I heard the talk given by Sri Garikapati Narasimha Rao garu, I was not aware of the spiritual significance of the story.  You can listen to it in Telugu language from www.surasa.net/music/purana website.  For people who don't know Telugu, I </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">4</thr:total></item><item><title>Conch Bearer - Childrens novel</title><link>http://nagarajdailyshare.blogspot.com/2008/02/conch-bearer-childrens-novel.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nagaraj)</author><pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:58:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6565064135142716254.post-2328430635579296320</guid><description>My daughters recommend lots of books to me.  Some of them I do read and some don't.  Until now, I loved following books to read with them or read aloud to them, etc.  These are from last year, 2007.1. Wizard of OZ (100 years back, author dreamed about tin man - similar to robot today)2. Sara, Book 1: The Foreverness of Friends of a Feather3. Sara, Book 2: Solomon's Fine Featherless Friends4. Sara</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>