Gerald D'Cunha

    “It’s only by owing who and what you are can you step into the fulness of life.” Oprah Winfrey      A s a child born and brought up in a Christian (Catholic) household, observing the solemnity of Lent – particularly that of the Holy Week – was an integral part of my faith. The services on the evenings on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter eve were, are and will be ‘Holy’ in true sense, to me. However, there has been one lantern phrase, that causes goosebumps all over my body and makes my heart, literally, stop. It’s is: ‘The Passion of the Christ’! Well, as a small boy – and even as a young man for many years – I never really paused to comprehend what that phrase really meant. It’s much later in my life, that I began to grasp what a powerful phrase that has been! The ‘Passion’ in life is the ‘fullness’ of life. Therefore, in those last traumatic hours of His life, Christ lived His human experience ‘fully’…  He became one like you and me...

  “Seize every opportunity along the way;   for, how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.” Robert Breault   T he book that inspired me the most –   I have told this countless number of times – was ‘Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill. I found a used copy of this book on the footpath near Churchgate area when I had just come to Bombay (now Mumbai) and was jobless. But, I was dreaming… I earnestly wanted to know how people succeeded. I hadn’t read any motivational books before I read ‘Think and Grow Rich’, nor I had attended any motivational Workshops, leave alone watching today’s YouTube videos! So, when, on the cover of this book, I read ‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve’… Yes, it came to me as the Manna from heaven… I wanted to hear it… I wanted to reinforce in me, that what I dreamt in my heart, I could achieve… and there was a way to do it! After more than eight decades since ‘Think and Grow Rich’...