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Human mind is a monkey mind as Naval says. We are constantly worried about our future and work hard towards making it better. At times we get so busy in it that we forget about living in this very beautiful moment, the present which is constantly passing. At the same time we start overthinking and …
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Senaca was one advisor to emperor Nero from Rome. He was also one of the founding father of stoics school of philosophy. In this chapter Seneca writes about our life and how short our life is in general. These are some notes from the book: Life is short, art is long. Our life is amply …
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Pheww. 2017 is almost gone, what a fantastic year this has been so far. The year went by like a joyride with it’s own share of happiness, pain, losses and learnings. The best part of it all is that am still breathing and all of my body parts are working alright. In short, everything has …
What is going on the other side? The mind of people around you? Are we able to get the other side of story? We have our own predefined construct about some person or situation and if the result is favorable we are happy else we are in pain. It is not easy to read others …
Death is the reality of life and most of us are scared about it. We try accumulating so much of wealth & enormous materialistic possessions. I have no clue if the kings/queens/riches of mummified world are using them after death. I’ve been told that most of the wealth left behind by the wealthy nobility and …
Everything in life is temporary and as we grow older we tend to realize this even more. The school friend of mine whose lunch box used to be opened by all of us soon after he entered our class has disappeared, I don’t even know if he is alive. I am 32 now and as …
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor and also a stoic aka believer of stoicism, a school of Philosophy that flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century AD. The Meditations is his thoughts on various aspect of life as collection of books which are all combined as chapter here. These are some notes: All existing things soon change, and …
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Benjamin Franklin is considered as father of modern America. His versatile expertise and contribution in Literature, politics, science, philosophy, law and many other areas helped in re-shaping America. He was a prolific reader as well as writer, a true believer of virtues. In early days he wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack, it holds true even in 21st …
It was quoted somewhere that “humans are social animal”. We live in this society constructed around us. We live happily in our tribe divided on basis of boundaries, color, race, economies Et All. While growing up in this society construct we gave rise to competition in all the domains from education, services to wealth. Even …
Where existed no religion Where no one was judged Where everyone lived with absolute freedom Where goods were plenty but no money Where everyone was human not robots Where relationship existed for real with no pre-requisites or conditions Where existed no society or divisions on basis of color of your skin or looks, height, weight …