Los Angeles based Hip Hop group Karmacy communicate a dialogue between two brothers.

With a part gujarati conversation, they tell a story about how one brother wants to escape the boredom of Indian life to explore the girls and money of America and become a millionaire. The other brother asks him what’s the need?

How often are we running outside ourselves and to other parts of the world to seek fame, fortune, excitement, love, and acceptance?

On the other hand, why hold back from travelling and exploring?

When we decide to venture out into the wider world, what’s the incentive, and what’s the intention? What are we expecting from the experience and what are our motives behind our actions?

Drawn out from they lyrics of “Blood Brothers” by Karmacy, you’ll find that “nomatter where I go, my soul is in the same place”.

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow — that is patience.”
- Anonymous

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
- Jalal-Uddin Rumi

“Two basic rules of life:

1. Change is Inevitable
2. Everyone Resists Change.

Remember this: When you are through changing… you’re through.”

- Anonymous

“The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Here in the UK, today is Fathers Day. A day where we take time out to pay respect and appreciation to the great men in our lives who have offered us warmth, comfort, shelter, protection and direction in this material world. Now look further, into the power of our heritage, and the lessons that have been passed down throughout the generations.

What are the resources that you have around you, so fortunate to be immersed within, sent to you by your ancestors? Now’s your choice – be caught up in the distractions and misuse these gifts, or embrace them and grow, just as your forefathers wanted you to? It’s your choice.

To all the fathers out there, Living Jain wish you a very Happy Fathers Day.

Of course, a personal note to my own dad: I love you. The past 12 months have been tough for us, and you have been an incredible pillar of strength to us all. There have been things you’ve had to do that not many men would be able to handle. You did them anyway. Thank you for being the father that you are. Now, it’s time for us to rustle up Sunday brunch, I believe! -Suraj

“Always tell the truth — it’s the easiest thing to remember.”
– David Mamet

“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”
– Ralph Charell

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.”
– Ralph Archbold

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”
– Sir Richard Burton