Chandresh Bhardwaj @cbmeditates

You want to prioritize sleep because sleep gives you willpower. You want willpower so that you won't eat fast food. You don't want to eat fast food bc it makes you fat. You don't want to be fat because you feel like shit. Prioritize sleep.

📆 37 years of Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso Thirty-seven years have been passed and the film still feels like someone opening an old door inside your heart. When Giuseppe Tornatore released it in 1988, no one knew it would become the universal language of nostalgia. But that is what the film became; a memory we all share, even if we never lived in that little Sicilian town. The film still feels like an old friend you never outgrow. It is the kind of story that settles quietly into your heart; a small Sicilian town, a curious boy named Toto, and Alfredo, the projectionist who becomes his compass in life. Their bond is the soul of the film, and time has only made it richer. “Whatever you end up doing, love it.” Alfredo’s words to Toto have followed viewers for almost four decades, like advice from someone we never met but somehow deeply know. Their bond, a boy learning life through the glow of a projector, still hits with the same warmth and ache. The film’s heartbeat has always been its simple truth: the movies we grow up with do not just entertain us, they shape us. They become the soundtrack to our childhood, the companions to our loneliness, the mirrors of our dreams. And then there is that ending, the greatest love letter any filmmaker has ever written to cinema. “Life isn’t like the movies. Life… is much harder.” It's not just a classic. It is a feeling. A lump in your throat. A reminder of the people who guided us, the places we left behind, and the moments we wish we could watch one more time. I simply can't recommend enough.

There's a beautiful Sanskrit word: mudita.

Jon Landau, the late #Titanic producer, writes in his posthumous memoir about the movie's four-minute trailer saving the movie. "We’d spent five years and $200 million. At times, it seemed like the whole world was rooting for us to fail. Time magazine ran a 'Titanic' cover story with the cover line 'Glub, Glub, Glub . . .' The sound of the big ship sinking. I sat nervously as our trailer played in that banquet hall in Las Vegas [at ShoWest], and just as it ended, Kurt Russell loudly announced, 'I’d pay ten dollars just to see that trailer again.' With that, we got a special dispensation from the Motion Picture Association — trailers were supposed to be 150 seconds, max — to release a four-minute-and-two-second trailer to audiences around the world. And from that day on, every negative article about the film ended with the sentiment that the movie might actually be good. It was a real turning point." Read more here: wp.me/pc8uak-1lGrFp

Tuscany, Italy

@loveofcinemasf8 The way Vidhi Vinod Chopra and Subash Ghai has extracted his talent is amazing - Eklavya, Mission Kashmir, Khalnayak were incredible. Top 3 for me would be MunnaBhai, Saajan, Agnipath. Dutt’s career is equally fascinating when you consider the projects he missed due to jail!

@NicoleBehnam I met him a few months ago in LA. We were giving podcast interviews in the same studio, but in different rooms. I love his authentic, real, and raw wisdom! Where can I watch this interview?

@shekharkapur this is a delight to listen!

So happy to see @cbmeditates today 🤍 A coach from India + a coach from Canada / same energy 🦋

so much of what we grew up understanding about intimacy and divinity was taught to us by a society that rarely experienced depth of intimacy and divinity. no wonder your longing for it hurts their well-decorated ego-system.

today, i don’t want to write. today, i wish to swallow the full moon, reimagine social norms, and dismantle the patriarchy that cripples men and women to embrace their wildness.

Wow! @VVCFilms has made some classics in Indian cinema, but I genuinely feel he will be forever loved for #12thFail Watching it with family right now, and our hearts are warm like fresh raw butter! Thank you for the quality cinema!! 🥲🤍 cc @anupamachopra @typingvanara

beloved wild feminine, in a world that often demands conformity and moral perfection, may you find the courage to break free. i hope you reimagine what it means to be virtuous, not through the lens of others, but through the authenticity of your own wild heart. may 2024 be your year of untamed-ness.

@bethlovesbolly this is so finely done!! 🫡

@typingvanara In Manhattan, they have this new cafe, Kolkata Chai. I Tried it yesterday. It's not like the homemade adarak chai, but it's certainly a step toward making it hip! ☕️

beloved wild feminine, i hope you don’t have to prove your virtue and moral perfection in 2024.

what i am leaving in 2023: people pleasing patterns lukewarm relationships comfort addiction expectations overthinking conformity overgiving

@thevirdas Rooted. Aware. Vulnerable. Leading. Calm and composed in chaos. Fierce and brave in conflict.

every religion is anti-women. i have studied & explored many religions from many perspectives. the conclusion is every religion has been unfair to women. some are directly unfair, and some misuse her in manipulative ways. only women have the power to change this. i hope they do it.

I have never been a huge fan of Friends, but each time I watched, I loved every minute of watching Matthew Perry. You were fighting many battles within, Matthew. May you find peace and healing in your transition to the next realm. ❤️‍🩹💔🙏🏽