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What is Love?
Continuing from my last post, I share with you the four pillars, four constituents, of love. If you see what I mean, I promise that by the time you finish reading this post, you’ll have a new perspective on love. … Read more →
Love or Attachment
“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 →
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 →
Unconditional Love
The other day, someone I met for the first time asked me an interesting question. Referring to one of my posts on love, she said, “You wrote in your article that unconditional love is very rare. Isn’t a mother’s love for … Read more →
The Value of Love
What is more important? To value what you have or to value what you don’t have? What is the value of love in your life? Think about it for a moment. Gratitude is valuing what you have, and ambition is … Read more →
Why do People Love or Hate You?
Once upon a time, soaring high in the blue sky, gliding on its wide wings, hundreds of feet above a pristine lake, a young eagle was scanning for food. It spotted a fish swimming in the crystal clear water. Without … Read more →
Four Pillars of Love
A decent percentage of the emails I get are around shaky relationships. Sometimes it is about two people wanting to work it out, many a time, it is just one person trying to figure it out, a lot of the … Read more →
Four Pillars of Love
Most people enter into a marriage with the intention of making it work, with the hope of deriving joy together, with the goal of being together. The intentions are as noble as the partners themselves. However, why do marriages that … Read more →
Speaking the Language of Love
We all know that the emotion of love is fundamental to human beings. However, the way we communicate this love makes all the difference. How to talk about the way we feel, about our emotions, to our loved ones? – … Read more →
Living with Love
If I were to pick the most important word in the dictionary, without a moment’s hesitation, I would pick Love. The greatest and most sublime of all emotions is pure love. Its profundity renders it unjust for love to be … Read more →
The Man Who Fasted
Some 24 years ago, I was leading a large team of developers when I noticed that one of the contractors in my team (he had come from our outsourcing partner) would quietly excuse himself from lunch every Monday, Wednesday, and … Read more →
Socrates and Ripped Jeans
I just finished reading this book, Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire, by Andrew Wilkinson. Andrew is a first-generation entrepreneur, a self-made billionaire. 1 After I completed the book, I decided to read up a bit more about the author. … Read more →
Euthanasia
Pain is a strange thing. To those who do not bear it, it is an idea—something to be mitigated, endured, fought against. To the one who suffers from it, however, it is a consuming force, an unrelenting tide that erases … Read more →
Trolls
One day, Mulla Nasrudin was sitting in the town square, watching a crowd argue about a new well being dug. “Mulla,” someone asked, “you’re the wise one. Do you think this well will bring prosperity or ruin to the village?”“Not … Read more →
The Road to (Un)happiness
“I cannot recount the countless paths to fleeting happiness, O Ananda,” Buddha said, “they vary from one sentient being to another. But I can tell you the cause of suffering and the means to transcend it—these are universal to all.” … Read more →
