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“What is unconditional love?” someone asked me the other day. “How do I love someone unconditionally?” In this post and the next, I’ll write a bit about love and how I see it. Although I’ve written on this subject in … Read more →
Do You have Faith?
Does faith have any scientific or even reasonable basis? And if you genuinely have faith, then how come worries of the future still grip you? I believe if you want your faith to be firm, then put aside any logic. … Read more →
The Two Realizations
To survive, thrive, and live gracefully in this world, we need a bit of both worldly and spiritual wisdom. Just having worldly wisdom may help you acquire material wealth and fame, but it doesn’t mean you’ll have peace and bliss. … Read more →
Listening to Nature
Everyone is born with some talent. It generally happens to be in the field one is passionate about. For most though, unfortunately, their talents remain hidden, unused. If you absolutely love to do something, you automatically excel in it. As … Read more →
Do Dreams Mean Anything?
Do dreams mean anything? We are a bi-mundial species — we live in two worlds, a real world and an imaginary world. It may seem that we spend all our time in the real world but this feeling is an … Read more →
A Life of Lies
Once upon a time, there was a king. Full of vanity and pride, he had an obsession with fine clothes and ornaments. He once announced a reward of one million gold coins to the one who could give him the … Read more →
Freedom
Where do you go when you want answers? Answers to such questions as what is right or wrong, how do I look, how am I performing, what is good or bad, even what is moral versus immoral, am I on … Read more →
How To Forget Someone
It takes time, so to forget someone you love you first need to understand what forgetting someone means.
The Fear of Death
All sane people have it — the fear of death. Let me segregate it into two parts: fear from an immediate threat and the fear of losing life in the distant future. At the bottom of the second type is … Read more →
Faith in God
There are many who have faith in God, just as there are those who don’t. Some believe because they have not done any thinking, and many others because they have done too much thinking. The same goes for non-believers too. … Read more →
Fear of the Dark
Everyone has fear, only the degree varies. It is innate, it forms part of our survival mechanism for it triggers the fight-or-flight response. Allow me to begin with a question I was asked the other day. A wonderful lady, the … Read more →
Dealing with the Loss of a Loved One
Sometimes people share with me heartbreaking incidents of how they lost their loved ones. There are those who lost their son or daughter, a sibling, or a parent, untimely or unexpectedly. Many a time, it is so gut-wrenching that even … Read more →
The Value of Nothing
Let me start with a Taoist story. Two men, a woodcutter and his apprentice, were passing through a jungle. They came across a huge banyan tree. Like some heavenly object, it stood majestically. Its trunk was wide, its boughs covered … Read more →
What is Beautiful?
What is beautiful? Something that is attractive, pleasing to look at? Or is there more to it? When it comes to the first impression, no doubt, external appearances can make an immediate mark. If you look at a pretty woman … Read more →
How to Overcome Negativity
The other day, someone asked me a simple yet important question. It is a question I get asked rather frequently, in fact. She said, “Sometimes I get so stressed due to an incident or a person, I become negative. No … Read more →
