Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Ripple effect
The ripple effect Thoughts, I read in a book given to me by my father years ago was like a pebble thrown on still water it caused ripples that spread as it moved outward. Few years later when I read conversations with God the book said something similar. It also claimed Hitler was the emergence…
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An Instrument Of Change.
When my daughter was 10yrs old, she read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” I was amused wondering what a 10yr.old would understand. But she told me something very profound. “Amma, wealth is neutral and only an instrument of change.” I was a little confused, she was very clear, “Amma, money is neither good nor bad, it…
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Shaking my tail feathers, like no one watching.
Somewhere we are so bothered about what will people think, that we learn to suppress some of the most fun aspects of our individuality. I know that when I do think of absurd observation, or something that seems very normal to me, I no more express it for the fear of it being unacceptable to…
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Hussain Sagar Lake,
When we landed at Hyderabad, the central water body, with a central Buddha statue seemed so intriguing. I did want to explore it. But work constrain did not. Finally on the day I was to leave Hyderabad, did I visit one bank of the lake. The Lake Hussain Sagar is a manmade lake, built by…
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The time of my life, learning to slow down
Yesterday was Guru-Purnima, and I recollect the last Guru Purnima, that I spent with my spiritual Guru. She smiled and invited me in, “come in my Rewa” I am contemplating on water,” she said, “when you came in I was thinking of the river Narmada” well experience taught me, there was more to come, “when…
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Finding the freedom in say No…
I have always had issues in saying no to certain people, I would oblige with so much of anger and resentment. But saying No was a No-NO, even to the day despite my age and physical challenges I find it impossible to say no, be it telling my kids to wake up on their own,…
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