Our greatest value to others? Our values. Whatever they are. They point to what is higher than ourselves. We all have value to offer others. And..others all have value to offer us. When we’re wise, we more quickly we we recognize our own value…and that of others. When we’re dim, we fail to recognize our…
Honest with Ourselves
It’s essential to be honest at least to ourselves, if no one else. Honest about what? Honest about our awesomeness. And…where we might have fallen short. Why? So we can troubleshoot the gaps. When we’re not honest? We don’t realize our awesomeness or our gaps. When we’re honest? We realize our awesomeness and our gaps….
5 Mini-Lessons so far in 2019
It’s been a fun ride so far in 2019. Certainly I feel so much clearer and even wiser just in these last 45 days. Here are 5 bite-size lessons I received this year. I do hope you enjoy! Some of them actually turn our conventional notions upside down. Agree, or not…that’s fine. But do consider…
Healthy vs. Toxic Influences
We have thousands of influences in our modern life, in the form of mentors, friends, colleagues, family members, and teachers. How do we tease them apart to know which ones are actually good for us, and which ones are not? And how do we do our best to be healthy influences for others? We have…
The Irony of Failure (a 2018 Retrospective)
Reflecting back on 2018, and forward to 2019, I wanted to share a key lesson over the last few years regarding my work, and how I rebooted my efforts again. Looking back, I see I’ve deviated from my core a few times over the recent years in trying to build Perspective Mapper, exploring pivots and…
What is Self-Realization?
After numerous conversations with friends and loved-ones over the last few months, it became clearer that the significance of the Path of Self-Realization is actually an alien concept for a great many of us.. and deserves greater explanation. I’ve taken my having carved space in my life for such a journey for granted. Although not…
What is Utopia?
Utopia has a negative connotation from centuries of false promises and shattered ideals of how the world should be. We are no where close to utopia. So we’ve kind of given up on using this concept to shape our life and work, simply letting ourselves feel that progress as defined as being faster, more accurate,…
What Is Our Perspective?
What is our perspective? This is a very difficult question for all of us. A question we might not ever considered. But I believe perhaps the most important question we can ask ourselves. One might feel our perspective is a collection of data and stats about our attributes. How introverted are we? Are we Focused?…
Gaining Perspective by Facing Mortality
These past couple of months I had a health emergency where I faced my mortality more intimately than I ever have before. I won’t go into medical details (I’d be happy to share privately), but while I’m very much on the road to recovery, this experience has helped give me a truer perspective of life’s…
The Act of Giving Attention
When we giving attention to someone, we are offering them a gift — a gift to help them see themselves from a new, refreshing vantage point. This vantage point we provide necessarily can give them the opportunity to appreciate their own actions, words, or expressions in a new light, as well as hopefully provide a…
Starting Again
After branching off for the last year on a variety of satellite projects, Perspective Mapper is coming back! We can call it version 2, or version 15…however we want to look at it…for what I consider my work of cultivating a deeper perspective of who we fundamentally are. You can find the earlier version of…
(Older Blogs)
Prior to this date, you’ll find blogs I’ve migrated from and written for other related projects I’ve worked on. I’ve refreshed the content with new contact information and details as I deemed fit. Ranjeeth ThungaPerspective Mapperrkt@perspectivemapper.org
False Power, True Power
We are so focused on demonstrating our power on the outside, so little focused on realizing the power on the inside. Why is that? Why do we give so little weight to power within? Do we not realize the source of all challenges…and all our solutions…lies within us? Do not we realize by being able…
Accepting Feedback: Not a Moral Responsibility
In our communication, connection-centric world, we give tremendous value to the feedback of those around us to help us choose our actions more precisely. This helps us in exposing our blindspots, giving us a vantage point to what we might have difficulty seeing within ourselves. Feedback does serve this essential role. No doubt it is…
Beyond Finding Fault
In any given conflict scenario, one of our prime knee-jerk reaction is to find out who is at fault — in other words, to find a scapegoat. If we have high regard for our egoic self, we find the scapegoat in another. And if we have low regard for our egoic self, we find a…
Once or Twice a Day
We need not do most activities more than once or twice a day. This includes phone calls. This includes What’s App / Facebook. This includes email. This includes reviewing our day. We complicate things by reviewing our life more than once or twice a day. We can usually streamline. Ranjeeth Thunga
The Myth of Laziness
The common argument is that people who don’t visibly match our idea of working hard are simply lazy. They are undeserving. However, after meeting thousands of both “hard-working” and “lazy people” over the course of my life, I’ve come to conclude that the conventional notion of laziness is by-and-large a myth. Once I get to…
Expressing the Way Things Ought to Be
It seems that each one of us has some idea of how the world ought to be that people don’t care about. Bickering about what needs to be done in the world is a favorite armchair topic that many of us have, over a couple of latte’s…or beers…with our dearest friends and family. We enjoy…
All About Being Centered
A simple life means simple rules. Based on if we’re centered. Simply put… Continue on, if we’re centered. Hold-off, if we’ve lost our center. Very simple. It’s all about being in our center. Despite what’s happening around. Ranjeeth Thunga written under pen name “Sim___ Li__”
The Gift of Disability
What comes to your mind when you think of “the disabled”? Typically, we might imagine they are broken, like a broken car or computer, and aren’t able to operate at the same capacity as a normal human-being. We might feel they are slower, less intelligent, and deficient in some way. They are either physically impaired,…