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Seeking Permanence in an Impermanent World is one of the causes of our suffering.Every thing is transient, but we want ourselves to be permanently happy. Like everything in nature, humans and their behaviors are not set in stone, they change over time and the emotions are the most transient ones. When everything around us changes, how do we expect us not to be influenced? But still we expect

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Media and Entertainment, Politics, Advertisers, Influencers, Work, Family and Friends .. everything and everyone wants your attention and time. Do you have the strength to exercise your freedom to choose to whom and to what you want to give your attention ?

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Dialogues from the Hindi movie Sparsh (1982 ) :Following is the meaning of a few dialogues from the movie I found insightful:उन्हे बेचारा मत कहोबार बार केहने से बात का मूल्य कम हो जाता हेकिसी के केह्ने से हम चोटा या बडा नही बन जाते हेSomeday I will copy the actual dialogues word-to-word over here

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I had heard this many times in the past and I thought I had grasped it's meaning, but I was incorrect. Only recently did I realize the essence of it. For a while I thought that if I reach a milestone in my life I would be happy and content, but that never happened. Once I reach the milestone, there is happiness and contentment and a sense of accomplishment for a brief period of time and then

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 No amount of fame/wealth can match the state of a Joyful person.

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"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a play written by Oscar Wilde and I remember reading this in my middle or high school. My first encounter with the word "Earnest" was this and the mind has permanently linked the word with the above sentence. I don't remember anything about the play anymore. Perhaps I will read it again one day, but that's not the subject of this blog post.This is the meaning

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Following are my notes from the book HO'OPONOPONO : The ancient Hawaiian practice of gratitude and forgiveness by Carole Berger.Law of Acceptance: No one in the world knows the entire big picture of how things or the world operates and how things are interconnected. So we should accept that we don't have the full picture and so we cannot control everything. This acceptance gives a bit of peace.

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 "People can help you in many ways throughout life, but there are two things nobody can give you: curiosity and drive. They must be self-supplied.If you are not interested and curious, all the information in the world can be at your fingertips, but it will be relatively useless. If you are not motivated and driven, whatever connections or opportunities are available to you will be rendered

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If we view our differences (in various aspects, the things that seem to separate us from others) as our preferences (or our tastes, rather than our identities), I think there would be a lot of harmony between us. In general we entertain and accept our different preferences and tastes more readily and don't feel threatened by those differences.

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One of my favorite columnist is Arthur C Brooks. Publishes articles mostly related to human psychology. A few lines from his recent article : https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/happiness-time-aging-mood/676964/I have seen this phenomenon in people close to me who, in late middle age, made a choice to practice character virtues that enhanced life for others. Sure enough

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Santhosh recommend this book (Anne from Green Gables) to me and I borrowed it from the library and started reading it. The book is based on the character of a 11 year-old (?) Orphan girl living near Nova Scotia in Canada during the 1900s. I found the book really interesting, many a times I would smile wholeheartedly reading through what Anne has to say in the book.. about her various

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From a recent Wired Magazine this was what a 19 year old founder of ChatGPTZero said when asked about what he thinks about doing in life.Chasing the Derivateis what he said. It's an interesting idea and seems a good philosophy to follow in life. As per Khanacademy, this is the meaning of the mathematical term *Derivative*The derivative of a function describes the function's

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I have been on goodreads for over a decade and over this period have found one particular user called Eric Graff quite interesting by reading his reviews. Makes me think that he is a learned person. He sprinkle's his personal experience in his reviews and that makes it interesting. Check this out to read the reviews:https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/974210-erik-graff?order=d&

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Some notes from the book by Alvin TofflerFirst Wave (pre-Industrialization) : Two sectors of people. Sector A : produced for their own consumption. Sector B : Produced for trade or exchange. Sector A was huge and Sector B was tinySecond Wave (Industrialization) : Most people were engaged in producing goods for others consumption and this gave the market the prominence. No longer people were

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అవసరాలు కొద్దీ సంబంధాలు 

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Both Stories and Numbers have their importance. Can't recall where I heard about this, but the essence is that if you want to convey a long-lasting message, then it has to be crafted as a story that will appeal to the audience and hence will be with them for a longer time. The story touches to the right/emotional side of the brain. But stories are anecdotes and very personal and don't apply

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From an online newsletter : (The source newsletter : https://edmondlau.substack.com/p/safe-to-fail)

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Here's the list of books that have affected me:One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukouka on the subject of primitive ways of farming and simple livingTrain to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh, a novel on the partition of India in 1947Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher on moving towards small , appropriate technologies in our society for a better and sustainable worldHow to Talk So Kids will Listen &

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Over the past 3 years, I have been spending significant time Reading books on various topics. Although I was always interested in reading : newspapers, magazines, online articles, blog posts, books, but the time I usually spent was quite less. But this has changed in the last 3 years. Since the pandemic started there's more time at my disposal to do some reading and to fill that time, I started

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Quote from the book "The Third Wave" by Alvin Toffler. The book was published in 1980.No single world view can ever capture the whole truth. Only by applying multiple and temporary metaphors can we gain a rounded (if still incomplete) picture of the world. But to acknowledge this axiom is no the same as saying life is meaningless. Indeed, even if life is meaningless in some cosmic sense, we can

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Akshara completed here first 10KM run as part of the San Francisco Marathon on Jul 23, 2023 . I am  happy and proud of her achievement. She did this as part of BARFI program and raised 2696 USD to support farmers in India. Since farmers  (in India) are impacted directly because of severe weather events, the funds will help organizations working for farmers to raise the awareness

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An excellent summary of the book : The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle by Andy is here:https://www.clues.life/book-reviews/the-power-of-nowAndy's site https://clues.life/ is a great resource as well

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 Entrepreneur and creative director Andrew Anabi on how to cherish life:"When life changes, you will probably miss the way it was. You may miss those long morning drives or walks to the office, or those hectic family gatherings. You may miss them because those moments are finite — you will only travel those streets and see those people a certain amount of times.Every time you do

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 I am just an Instrument...An Instrument of my conditioning...An Instrument of the times...An Instrument of my surroundings...An Instrument of my thoughts...And yet...I have some VolitionAnd yet...I am Responsible

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She wrote this last week (inspired by other poems/songs)Insects, birds and even us tooWe can all fly if we just try to Fly with our family, our moms and dadsOur brothers and sisters and maybe even auntsGrandparents too and maybe even youSo just try to fly like a little bird who flewOver the mountains and oceans tooOver the deserts and rain forests that grewThis is all true but there is one

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