Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Spider energy weaving life
Rick Riordon in book Mark of Athena, talks of an Arhcane as a wonderful weaver, she wove the sunlight into tapestries. My perception of cobweb has changed since then, they are of course the carpets of dustbunnies and they have to be done away with, yet they also remind us that we have the ability…
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Two Sides Of the Same Moon
Tetisa kopi devargala oda goodi hattavataarava nettidanamma. Is a verse from the famous purandaradasa’s poetry. Well, this translates to along with thirty three crores of gods he (Vishnu) took ten avatars. This has been a bone of contention, and even ridicule. But we never put it to context. When we say gods, we are talking about…
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Promises to keep.
One major thing I imbibed in the Landmark curriculum for education was the power of the word. We call it integrity. we often forget how powerful our words are and when we make promises it is up to us to make sure we keep our words sacred. We very often make commitments, promises we may…
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Awrite thaur october.
31st of August, well precisely 91 days for December I reckon. The very reason that both 1st of September and 1st of December always fall on the same day of the week. Plans for the month are immense. The lovely tokens of September days are here, with best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.…
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Choosing Not To Look Away
Choosing not to look away, Last Sunday Janet Attwood was at Goa, she gave us the passion test, and my partner was a young boy in standard eight. One of his passions was to Help The Homeless. I was quite amused. Yet here is what he had to share. “They are not there because they…
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A Wish the magic of the mind
A Magical Mind. Last evening we were planning to go out, and I was hoping it won’t rain. Then I did something very childish, I crossed my fingers promising to open it only when I returned. As kids whenever we had a secret wish, we would cross our fingers and of course not tell it…
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