Kal Parekh

“Follow your dreams, lead with your heart. Every step in the right direction makes a difference.” - Kal Parekh. Actor 🎭 Artist🖋💻 Mindfulness Warrior 🙏😌

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The moment India's Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the Moon

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Happy Independence Day....

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Happy 77th Independence Day to Indian brothers and sisters. #15August #77thIndependenceDay

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Can you buy peace of mind? Can you remove fear surgically or mechanically? What destroys our peace of mind is anger and fear. If we cultivate compassion and love, we can counter anger and fear. So, we need to educate people about the way the mind works and our system of emotions.

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

@bpoppenheimer Very unique posts you have , thanks for sharing !!

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

@ZackSnyder @rebelmoon Man of steel is one of my favs , can’t wait for this !

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

@bpoppenheimer Fantastic share brotha!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.

During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,

“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”

Bob replied,

“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”

Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”

He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:

“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”

Takeaway 1:

Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.

And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.

Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.

In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.

“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”

Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Takeaway 2:

Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.

They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.

When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,

"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."

As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."

You control the effort, he says, not the results.

"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump

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[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

@moniqueblognet @jumpedforjoi @treymangum @jordansimon78 @ChanceCalloway I agrée with 1,2 and 5 👍

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

In #solidarity with our brothers and sisters @WGAEast @SAGAFTRANY #WGAstrong #sagaftramembers

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

#Acting together for a better future. As a proud member of #SAGAFTRA I stand with the #WGA. None of the magic that got us all through the pandemic happens without writers and actors #WGAstrong #1u #sagaftramembers
#sisterunion 💪

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Compassion is the source of true joy, peace and happiness. It is the foundation of a good heart, the essence of a meaningful life, and the fundamental principle for creating a better world.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

We have to remember that each and every one of us is part of humanity. We must be determined to achieve positive change, but also to take a long view of what needs to be done. What is important is not to become demoralized. Optimism leads to success; pessimism leads to defeat.

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

We are so passed trying to do the right thing. Too much loss and so little being done about it. @McConaughey articulated it perfectly in his emotional address. On behalf of all families everywhere, we thank you 🙏. This was desperately needed! https://t.co/DGzvi13FTw

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

The perfect day to keep this in mind ! “Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.” #AprilFoolsDay
Ram Dass

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

The fact that inner peace is the principal characteristic of happiness, explains the paradox that while we can all think of people who remain dissatisfied, despite having every material advantage, there are others who remain happy, despite the most difficult circumstances

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Warm-heartedness leads to a healthy mind. Peace of mind allows us to sleep soundly. I’m not talking about the benefits of the next life or of finding God, but of being a peaceful person with a calm mind and a warm heart here and now.

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

“What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, #Oscars2022 ✌️❤️

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

Will smith has been such an inspiration! I don’t know what to think. It was a moment of weakness but why does it feel like someone died. #Oscar

[Kal Parekh @i_Kal]

@RyanHoliday So we can be philosophical on twitter 😂