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- January 17, 2014
The Ballet of Life and Death
Reading Amanda Palmer’s blog always makes me feel agitated and overwhelmed. Like the dormant notion of my mortality is suddenly awakened. There are so many ways to live, so much to life, so much to live (or die?) for, so many experiences to have and so little time to do it all. She wrote about […]
- January 16, 2014
Navigating Stuckness
“In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter. The zeitgeist rewards timeliness, but your soul rewards timelessness.” Best article I have read in a long while. It came at exactly the time I need it. Navigating Stuckness by Jonathan Harris “[…]each time I’d been majorly stuck, it meant that a life chapter was […]
- January 15, 2014
Astronaut Chris Hadfield
I can’t believe it took me so long to discover Chris Hadfield. During his time at the International Space Station, Commander Hadfield went from being an obscure space commander to an orbiting rockstar, thanks to his hundreds of inter-galactic updates on social media channels like Twitter and Facebook, which generated a lot of attention and […]
- January 14, 2014
Humanism
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
- January 13, 2014
Doris Lessing
via Amorous Musings “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.” Doris Lessing, born in Iran – then known as Persia – and brought up in the African bush in Zimbabwe, a […]
- February 19, 2013
Thirty
I find myself thrust into an abyss of arid non-happenings when reminiscing your past year. As if on cue, the left brain began its defensive and reactionary search for applause-worthy items in theAchievements compartment. To be fair, you did have some splendid moments, and the result card yields not hearty sighs. But you seemed to […]
- February 19, 2012
Twenty Nine
You’ve had a hell of a year. An introspective summary would reveal a messy graph, the peaks and valleys fluctuating unpredictably and to asynchronous frequencies. Somewhere in between your serial conquests and breathless finales, there were surreptitious glimpses of doubtful pauses. Concocting that magic cocktail of fun and pain is a skill which you have […]
- April 4, 2011
The Hard Problem
Why do we feel the way we do? How is feeling related to consciousness? What is the origin of our conscious mind? Is reality merely a perception? Where does consciousness reside? Do we have a soul? Do you see red the way I do? How are cognitive experience linked to our construction of what is […]
- February 25, 2011
The Art of Simplicity
Sometimes while crawling the web I stumble upon a piece of article that tugs on my heartstring or makes me ponder. And I notice one thing they often have in common is this – they use simple words. I seldom need to pause in the middle of my reading to google anything in the article. […]
- February 19, 2011
Twenty Eight
And you sat there. The cliff overlooking a sea of could-be’s and would-be’s, and you ponder in bewilderment the scarcity of the choices you are confronted with. Kuhn would call this a paradigm shift, something revolutionary should be in sight. But what is soul rattling to you is the improbability of narrowing it down to […]
- February 16, 2011
Flow
She’s what we call “see-worthy.” S-E-E. See with your eyes. I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. Voila. And this? This is like my little window to the world, and every minute it’s a different show. Now, I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. […]
- October 6, 2010
We Are All Going to Die
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. […]