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Three Most Important Questions

Who is the most important person? What is the most important time? What is the most important karma? Once upon a time, a king got up in the morning with these three questions on his mind. In the royal court, … Read more →

Life is a Struggle

I go through anywhere between two to three thousand emails every month. Ninety percent of these emails are from people who are struggling with one thing or the other. Some of them are tired of battling and resisting, they are … Read more →

Dealing with Stress

Our world can be an overwhelming place sometimes. We have made it a little too complicated, a bit too fast. Everything needs to be done yesterday. As if days, weeks and months were not enough, we have started measuring efficiency … Read more →

How to Make Someone Happy

When we make someone happy, the same part of our brain is activated as when we do something for our own happiness. This is not philosophy, but neuroscience. I’m not surprised though because the joy of giving far exceeds any other … Read more →

A Random Act of Kindness

Nikolai Berdyaev was a Russian thinker and existentialist. He once said, “The question of my bread is a material question but the question of my neighbor’s bread is a spiritual question.” This is kindness in a nutshell. Compassion may just … 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 →

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 →

The Most Fundamental Human Desire

What is the most basic human desire, the one that sits at the core of humanism and humanity, the most fundamental human need, the one that can make or break your world, the one emotion that makes all the difference … 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 →

Why do People Get Bored?

Readers of all ages write to me regarding boredom. Some are bored with their routines, others with their partners, and many are bored with life altogether. Notably, parents ask me what they should tell their children when they say they … 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 →

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 Attract

You have probably heard and read about the law of attraction. To think about it, almost everyone is working to avoid suffering, they are working towards ever-elusive happiness, trying to attract the positives. No one wants negative people around them … Read more →