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William Paisley-Giving you a Guru Right in Your Pocket

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The Guru has Always been Within, Now the Guru can be in Your Pocket too Dr Amit Nagpal : Why did you name your app as "Your Pocket Guru"? Tell us, "Turn your phone into Pocket Guru", what is it about? William Paisley : The app is a teaching tool that you carry in your pocket. So I thought it was a catchy name that also described what it is & does. The Pocket Guru is all about Remembering, Reminding & Repetition of what inspires you now. It's a way to inject pauses in your busy day to reflect a little on what you want to change & improve in your life. It's like 'On-demand Inspiration'! Dr Amit : You have a huge fan following on Twitter. Any Twitter success formula, you would like to share? William : I put in a lot of time on Twitter & FB. I think the big thing with why my Twitter account has/is growing large is that I put hard to understand 'Life issues' and make them easier & more relatable. I also enga...

Inner Joy Makes us Great

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Two Opinions on Inner Joy This is a monthly column on becoming a great human being and has two opinions on the subject from western and eastern part of the world namely Michael Thallium from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India. Michael Thallium, Spain Writing on the inner joy has been a challenge for me. In the begining I wanted to explain and show what it means, but then I realized that I would become too theoretical if I would do so. Then I decided to find an example and just let it speak on its own. And that’s what I did. I found a great video of Alice Sommer Herz, a 108 year old lady who survived the holocaust and overcame a cancer at age 86. To me that’s a very good example of inner joy. She speaks about optimism, but you can feel her inner joy when she laughs.  I believe that when you experience that inner joy, people just want to “stick around”. Everybody loves being around someone who sees the good side of things and feels the inner satisfaction to h...