Quest for Nirvana

The Hiatus Of A Year, Transfer To New Site

2011-12-30T20:41:00.001+05:30

After a hiatus of slightly more than a year, it is a pleasure to pen this post on the blog. Though there have been frequent long gaps in the posts in the five years of the blog's existence, the present hiatus was the longest. Upon opening the blog today, it felt as if quest for Nirvana were a stranger, and not the familiar entity one had invested so much cathexis in for such a long time. Going through the content of the blog's pages, it was a revelation to see the cobwebs that had grown all over the site, in the form of broken links of images and videos. To the casual visitor, it must have been clearly evident that the site was neglected. To the regular visitor, the site's condition and lack of fresh content must have presented a sad picture.

The purpose of this post is to formally announce the relocation of quest for Nirvana from its address at Blogger.com to a new site: http://questfornirvana.com. Beginning now, all fresh content shall be posted on the new site.

While affecting the transfer, care has been taken to repair any broken links, so that when you visit any article at the new site, you should see images that are intact and videos which work.A number of articles too have been removed altogether or pruned, in order to keep the site relevant as a whole.

A salient feature of the new site is that the content is no longer publicly accessible. Readers interested in reading the articles hosted on qfN are required to subscribe by registering with the new site. (There is no subscription cost, for now.)

Another salient feature of the new site is the new style of navigation of the articles. The long, single-page, monolithic structure of the articles at Blogger.com has now been replaced with a multi-page look and feel.

Yet another feature worth mentioning is the context-specific association of the articles with additional relevant reading material, by way of links to books hosted on Amazon.com. The idea is to embed the mind of the reader in multiple streams of thought on the same topic at hand which it is engaged in at the present moment, thus creating a multi-dimensional experience.

In time to come, the site’s present location at Blogger.com will be demolished completely, and qfN will have just this one address on the internet. The reader may therefore consider updating their bookmarks and tags accordingly.

Here is the new site address one more time: http://questfornirvana.com.

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When One's Own Body Becomes An Object, To Be Abused

2010-12-06T17:32:00.003+05:30

When We Become Our Own Enemy

"There is no cry of pain without,
at its end,
an echo of joy"
- Spanish realist poet and philosopher, Ramon de Campoamor

A young, adult male - perfectionist to the core - boxes his own jaw hard and sound, several times, on both the left and the right, when he thinks nobody is looking at him. The harder the better. One more time. Yet one other time. There. Serves you right. You have not been able to make it this time too. You failed to scale your own bar of standards. The throbbing pain on both the sides of the mandible sends shoots of pain in the head, triggering another round of ringing in the ears. Perhaps the onset of tinnitus. You will be alright soon, the pain will numb and ebb away after some time. You will feel better after this bout of self-punishment.

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Making Sense Of The Senselessness

2010-07-24T14:22:00.002+05:30

Some Basic Philosophical Questions Still Remain Unanswered, Even After All These Years

"Utterly senseless; utterly senseless, everything is senseless!" - says Qoheleth, seemingly in despair, in the beginning of the book. It is not difficult to relate to the state of mind of the author of the work, "Ecclesiastes".

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Ownership Of Thought

2010-05-12T19:33:00.001+05:30

For Now We See Through A Glass, Darkly

For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part;
but when that which is perfect is come,
that which is in part is done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child,
I felt as a child, I thought as a child;
Now that I am become a man,
I have put away childish things.

[First Epistle to the Corinthians, 13:9 to 13:11]

Some people who have suffered cerebral insults or have an organic imbalance in the brain report that, between 2:00 am and 4:00 am on a given day, they often "see" a "sentient being" in their vicinity. This being is invariably on their left side - and very seldom on any other side. And they intuit that this being, though having human features, is not really human. In fact, the being reminds them of a deceased family member or some ghostly apparition they faintly remember having read about or heard about. Whatever this being is, it is scary, fearsome, sometimes accompanied with a very odd smell that they have never encountered before, and causes very odd sensations in the body, including vibrations and the raising of the hair on the skin. Overall, it is a very negative affect that is produced.

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Handling Adversity

2010-03-24T09:50:00.001+05:30

Weeping May Endure For A Night, But Joy Cometh In The Morning

That this advertisement clip is now being shown to students in the remotest of colleges nowadays as an icebreaker before beginning a presentation, reveals how a chord somewhere within has been touched universally by its protagonist - a mute girl who is also deaf succeeds in producing music that captivates an audience. This advertisement was shot for Procter & Gamble's Pantene hair shampoo and released in the Thailand market in September 2008; but it has soon come to symbolize the handling and overcoming of adversity. Click on the PLAY button below to watch and enjoy the clip.

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You Had Me At Hello

2010-02-19T22:25:00.002+05:30

Different Shades To The Color Of Love

I came across an interesting account in an article on cultural anthropology about how the people of Finland handle the emotion of love. The article describes an interview televised in the American program "60 Minutes", in 1993, titled "Tango Finlandia", and I quote:

The Strength Of The Moment

2010-02-06T16:50:00.001+05:30

Aren't All Moments Created Equal?

Ever since we came into being as a result of conception, we have had a string of moments that are significant to us. But how many of those do we really remember, or even acknowledge?

The Cyclicity Of Time

2010-01-05T21:27:00.002+05:30

Time Is Linear, It Is We Who Draw Cycles In It

In the beginning, so they say, was just emptiness. And there were a few of these rocks, drifting in space. Somebody who had nothing better to do reached out and began idly spinning the rocks. And then with a disinterested yawn began nudging them to move in random circle-like orbits around a ball of gas. One of these rocks came to be inhabited by people who have not an iota of knowledge of whence they came, and who do not leave any forwarding address when they exit. And yet, they came to consider themselves as the owner of the rock and all that surrounds it.

The Sixth Chapter Of The Bhagavad Gita

2009-12-20T17:19:00.002+05:30

On Mastering The Mind; And The LoA Across Lifetimes

[This article contains Unicode characters to represent Sanskrit alphabet. Systems which do not recognize Unicode may render junk characters on the screen.]

It took him considerable time and effort to pry off the hubcap. The rest of the process was relatively smoother. After removing the final lug nut, the mechanic pulled the punctured wheel from its position with a heave. The truck stoically balanced itself on the jack.

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Smile, Though Your Heart Is Aching

2009-11-14T17:57:00.004+05:30

It Is Attitude That Determines A Happy Outcome

They were quite a hit as a couple. The cafe owner who had hired them was very pleased at the impact on the patrons of the antics of the waddling comic singer and the graceful dance of his girl. The cafe owner offers the man a steady job on the spot. And just as the man and his muse begin deaming of happily-ever-after, nemesis catches up with them in the form of cops from the juvenile division, carrying a warrant to arrest the girl on charges of vagrancy. Faced with what looks like a crisis situation, the two flee the cafe. See how circumstances alter life in the blink of an eye?

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The Tiers Of Psychic Powers

2009-11-03T18:59:00.004+05:30

Master Them One After Another
Are we psychic? For long, we have treated the mind as an "entity" to hold and process our "conscious" and "unconscious" (or "subconscious", as it is nowadays called) emotions and thoughts which come from some unknown "source". We also treat the mind as an "entity" into which we "pull" memories from a huge archive located "somewhere", to process every now and then. Is this all that the mind can do? Or is it capable of doing more? Does our mind possess powers that we are not aware of? In other words, are we psychic?

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Do We Possess Psychic Powers That We Are Not Aware Of?

2009-10-07T09:45:00.003+05:30

- Is It Just A Matter Of Locating Them?
- To Rowling goes the credit for bringing into popular English lexicon the word "Muggle". Over time, this word has filled the vacuum of an apt, single-word antonym for someone who does not possess the skill of wizardry, someone who cannot perform magic, and by magic I do not mean the illusionary trick of bringing out the bunny from the hat that we see on stage during children's parties.

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Symbolism Of The Stork - That Charming Image Of Childhood Days

2009-09-24T16:30:00.010+05:30

- A Quaint Symbolism That Is Fast Becoming Irrelevant
- "The real mechanics behind the arrival of babies was revealed for the first time in secondary school when the lanky, curly-haired, hollow-cheeked, poker-faced Biology teacher flipped the pages of the textbook to reach the last chapter. In a span of two (or was it three?) hours spread over as many days, the good man taught us everything there was to know about the science of producing babies, as laid down in the chapter -- which was a few pages of dry narrative of hormonal changes at puberty, jumping directly to the first fused cell in the womb, with labeled sketches of the reproductive anatomy of the two genders alongside. Both the textbook and the teacher took care to keep the attention of the class riveted on the mechanics, and just the mechanics. Focused as one was on the forthcoming board exams, one didn't really bother to figure out what was left out and why.

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Pinocchio, Everything's Fine With Your Nose

2009-09-16T10:19:00.004+05:30

- On Giving The Right Set Of Values To The Child
- Remember Pinocchio? The little humanoid marionette that is carved out of a talking pine log? Special that he is, Pinocchio is trained on basic values of living from some very special personalities. One of them is the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, a mother figure to the impressionable young boy, who drills into him a code of conduct that would appear outdated today. "Don't ever you lie, Pinocchio. Whatever else you do, don't ever lie."

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Do You Have A Bit Of Dobby In You?

2009-08-29T16:27:00.007+05:30

Or, Go Easy On The Guilt And The Atonement
"...you'd be forgiven for thinking me mad - the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is, I feel rather light-headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don't think I can blame the heat. Will you forgive me?" This was the main body of the letter Robbie had intended to put in the envelope to be handed to Cee, or Cecilia. But, in a hurry to get dressed and reach the venue of the party at the Tallis Estate, he inserts a different sheet of paper instead. That day turns out to be quite eventful for him. For the first time, Robbie and Cecilia acknowledge their love for each other. And within the next few hours, Robbie is sent to prison for a crime that he did not commit, on the strength of evidence given by a 13-year-old girl, the girl who had once upon a time harbored a crush on him. I am recounting here the story of the 2007 movie, "Atonement", based on the novel by Ian McEwan.

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Exploring The Fourth State Of Consciousness

2009-08-09T18:05:00.004+05:30

- This State Helps Keep The Mind Healthy
- Time was when the phrase "mental health" would conjure up imagery of asylums and psychiatric wards and mental hospitals with rows upon rows of beds on which were stationed "patients" manacled to bedposts and walls, with grim-looking nurses and equally grim-looking attendants moving around, making sure that the inmates do not pose any danger either to themselves or to the rest of humanity.

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Relax, Let Go And Enjoy Your Stay

2009-07-24T10:53:00.001+05:30

- Don't Let Stress And Anxiety Mar Your Experience On Planet Earth
- The way the human body is constructed, it would appear that it was Known beforehand that this living being is always going to encounter stress and strain in some form or the other in their lifetime. And that the stress will not be related to the humdrum challenges of foraging and survival alone; it will go beyond. For a typical human life, stress begins to be experienced right from the moment the gravida's uterine muscles begin their contractions to expel her precious cargo. The subtle stress signals coming from the muscles of the surrounding walls are a hint to the neonate - ensconced in its comfortable sac - that its time to "arrive", has finally arrived.

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When The Connect Between The 4D And The Ethereal, Shrivels

2009-07-08T18:09:00.004+05:30

The Mind Shifts Towards Becoming A "Thing In Itself"?
- First-person accounts of people with Alzheimer's and dementia usually make depressing reading. Page after page, the narrator takes the reader slowly and inexorably down the precipice of futility and hopelessness. The journey is usually vivid with imagery of a challenge that is overwhelming and a surrender to that which is inevitable. "A slow descent into silence." "A man dying in slow motion." "Oh God, why? Why?" The vocabulary of human languages has more words, phrases and expressions to articulate feelings of negativity and gloom than it has for feelings of positivity and optimism.

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From Self-Recognition To Self-Awareness To Self-Identity To Self-Actualization

2009-06-20T12:31:00.003+05:30

Throughout This Journey, The Soul Remains Silently Observant
Freshmen psychology students are exposed to the concept of animal cognition at some point as they immerse deep into the semesters. One topic they are introduced to in the subject is "mirror self recognition", or MSR. This is a test that determines whether animals can recognize themselves in the mirror - and their ability to do so tells us whether they are aware of their own existence as a distinct, objective entity.

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Wellbeing And The Science Of Matter-Energy Continuum

2009-06-05T18:56:00.004+05:30

Our Emotions And Thoughts Influence Our Health
The hypothyroids amongst us will perk up at this news, I am sure, if they haven't come across it already. Two researchers in Australia succeeded in reducing very high TSH levels in a couple of patients through Neuro Emotional Therapy (NET) - and brought back their hypothyroid condition to normal. The treatment involved making the patient sit comfortably, making them extend a pronated arm, "testing" a specific muscle in the arm, and while doing so, asking the patient to recall emotions of fatigue, stress and feelings of loss and vulnerability - similar to the feelings a hypothyroid experiences when not on any medication. And while the patient's mind was engrossed in experiencing these emotions, the researchers "contacted" specific skin points on the wrist of the extended arm (known as "triple heater points" (TH) / "Meridian Access Points" (MAP) in acupuncture parlance).

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The Case Of The Mellowing Sun

2009-05-25T14:21:00.004+05:30

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* This ultraviolet image of the Sun shows one of the largest solar flares ever seen, courtesy SOHO, (NASA & ESA).

Possible Consequences Of Slowed Solar Activity
That there is an inextricable link between Life on earth as we know it and the interaction between the heavenly bodies - is well known. The earth spins on its axis at slightly less than 1,700 kilometers per hour. This figure in itself is enough to make us feel dizzy and off-balance, but the earth's spin does not make us feel so - even the just-emerged new-born infant is quite at ease with this spin. But then this lump of rock does not stop at only spinning. It revolves around that other round mass of hot gas at an astonishing speed of over one hundred thousand kilometers per hour.

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Those Ruby Slippers Will Take You Home, Dorothy

2009-05-12T19:34:00.004+05:30

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* A stained glass window with the contracted version of the Greek aphorism, 'Know Yourself', wiki.

You Have It In You, You Just Have To Find It
The Scarecrow had all the brains that the rest of us always possess all the time; the only thing that he didn't have was the piece of paper with the word "DIPLOMA" written over it. So when the Wizard of Oz confers upon him the piece of paper, the Scarecrow becomes Dr. Scarecrow, Th.D., short for "Doctorate in Thinkology". The timid Lion had all the courage that ordinary folks have; the only thing that he didn't have was a piece of ornately carved alloy that goes by the name of "medal". So when the Wizard of Oz awards the Lion the Triple Cross - for bravery and valor displayed by him against the wicked witches -, the Lion restores his roar. The Tin Man suffered from the sorrow of not possessing a heart in his bosom. So when the Wizard of Oz presents him with a heart-shaped clock as "a token of society's esteem and affection", the Tin Man discovers that his hollow bosom was not hollow after all. The punch-line that the Tin Man returns with is that "... a heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others." You see, all these creatures carried great virtues in them already. But they never knew.

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Discover Your Inner Calling

2009-05-02T19:11:00.004+05:30

Follow The Direction Your Internal Compass Is Pointing To
Growing up in the Walden County Home for Boys, New York, life for Evan Taylor didn't really look any different from any of the multitudes of orphans who passed out of that place before him, as well as any of the multitudes of kids who will pass out after he did. Evan Taylor was just another paper of data in the Child Services Department. Except that his peers thought he was a freak, as he seemed to be possessed by a firm conviction that his parents would find him some day. And the department counselor found the child's interest in wind chimes rather quirky and quaint and charming. But Evan Taylor was not an ordinary child. They eventually called him a "child prodigy". But that is just another name given to the phenomenon of discovering one's inner calling early on in life.

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* Promotional Poster of the movie 'August Rush', wiki. Performed by Freddie Highmore as Evan Taylor / August Rush.
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Diabetes - Silent Killer? Or Awakener?

2009-04-19T17:14:00.003+05:30

Diseases Awaken Us To Realities Like None Other Can
If the number of lives snapped up by a given medical condition every year is any indication of that condition's power over the all-powerful humanity, then, with its tally of 3.8 million deaths (as counted in 2007), diabetes stands heads and shoulders above several "traditional" diseases. And it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with HIV/AIDS in the table rankings for claiming the number of lives that it does.

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Rekindle The Passion In Your Job

2009-04-09T17:02:00.003+05:30

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* A collage of distorted clocks, sxc.hu/ba1969.

- Recall The Time When We Went To Work, Not Because We Had To, But Because We Wanted To
- As a child, one often wondered: while we have the doctor to go to when we have health problems, where do the doctors go when _they_ have health problems? If a recent study is to be believed, looks like the doctors have nowhere to go. No really. Especially when they are suffering from burnouts and fatigue that sap all enthusiasm.

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Keeping Those Trampoline Springs In Good Condition

2009-03-31T06:25:00.003+05:30

For The Springs Cushion The Fall And Bounce You Back
If you have stumbled into this article in your quest for information on trampoline construction and maintenance; then I am sorry to say that this article is anything but that. This article is essentially for seekers of nirvana. But wouldn't do any harm spending a few minutes to find out what this article is all about, before returning back to the wild of the internet. Relax and make yourself comfortable, please, for the journey of the next few minutes should prove to be insightful.

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Where Do You Start - When You Have To Start All Over

2009-03-18T21:14:00.003+05:30

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* 'Illustration accompanying the fairy tale, 'The Ugly Duckling'. illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen, story by Hans Christian Andersen', wiki. Life was one lonely terrain for the cute little cygnet, ostracized and shunned as he was by the rest of the barnyard fowl because his body and physique was so "hideous", so "abnormal" because it was so "different" from the rest. It was only when the "duckling" morphed into a beautiful swan, in fact the most beautiful swan of them all, that fellow fowls realized what a gem they had all along been having in their midst. Morphing, you see, is a necessary and unavoidable part of our life if we have to realize our fullest potential. Otherwise we will spend our entire life as a duckling, out of place and out of tune with the rest of the society, never arriving at the true station we deserve.

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Make Bending, Twisting, Arching - A Daily Ritual

2009-03-05T21:35:00.004+05:30

This CAM Abates A Host Of Psychosomatic Conditions
Look around, and you see entire multitudes of people indulging themselves every now and then in their favorite pastime of lolling in the acid-tub of anxiety and reclining on the thorn-bed of stress. Nothing wrong with such pastimes; some amount of anxiety and stress is prescribed by the doctor too - good for health, they say. The only problem is when we turn them into a passion. There are passions and then there are passions. The difference between being passionate about golfing & jogging and being passionate about anxiety & stress is that while the former can make the body and the mind healthy, the latter can lead the body and the mind towards disorders.

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A Chain Made Of Akritic Links And Soritic Metal

2009-02-27T10:58:00.005+05:30

Or, Why We End Up Breaking Our Resolutions
In a couple of days' time, this year will complete two months. It is a yearly ritual around this time to search for that list of resolutions that had got made in the heat of the New-Year-eve-moment. It is a ritual also, to rue over how the days have slipped past without even a finger being lifted towards fulfilling the goals in that list. And whatever attempt was made, was half-hearted and short-lived. And before we know it, the year will come to a close. All the lofty resolutions and firm determinations spring out from the list, ghost-like, to mock at us, and we either embarrassingly tear off the list to banish the ghosts forever, or we shove it beneath the pile of papers already on the desk, so that it remains out of sight, or push it deep into the drawer so that it never gets picked up till it is time to clean the drawer.

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What If - The Fisherman Does Not Discover The Ring

2009-02-20T10:58:00.014+05:30

Bounce Back From Failed Relationships Quickly - There's No Point In Wallowing In Self-Pity
"Abhigyan Shakuntalam", written by Kalidasa, is a favorite play enacted in the junior classes in schools across quite a few south-Asian countries. The play was also once enacted on the occasion of the school's Foundation Day celebrations I got to attend. A quaint story of love triumphing after the usual convolutions, the drama's medieval age values and mores also starkly contrast modern age thinking about relationships, and therefore worth a look in passing.

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The Power Of 'Mantram'

2009-02-11T18:15:00.005+05:30

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* 'Japa beads, rosary made from Tulasi wood' - wiki

Spirituality (More Than Religion) A Good Intervention Technique In HIV
Did the rosaries and prayer beads ever go out of fashion? There is a stage in every human being's life when these artifacts appear to hold no attraction. We decide that we do not need to believe in anybody higher. And then something happens, something that is beyond one's control, which makes one take refuge in prayer and prayer beads. We have all been through these times, one time or the other.

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Don't Cry, Shopgirl

2009-02-08T19:46:00.011+05:30

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Let's Arm Ourselves With The Right Attitude - Before Plunging Into Online Relationships

The first inkling that a quiet revolution in the game of courtship was underway came in the mid-to-late-nineties, when a colleague began staying back after office hours, ostensibly to catch up with pending work. On his own initiative, without the supervisor asking him. I still remember the glow of self-compliment I felt that my efforts at employee-motivation were finally showing results, and here was one man who was fully-driven and highly-charged-up to meet his goals; my pep-talk must be really effective, or so I thought. We even mulled the idea of holding him up as mascot to the rest; may be others might feel similarly motivated. It came as a shock therefore when at the end of the quarter the colleague's task-submissions report showed an actual decline by 20%. Hey what was going on?

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The Stomach Is An Inflatable Sac, Sure

2009-02-04T07:49:00.007+05:30

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* Portion depicting Gluttony in Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things' - wiki. Gluttony, or "Gula" in Latin, is considered one of the seven deadly sins by ancient literature. The opposite of Temperance. Gluttony, or "Gula", is the "binge-eating" of today. Sure, we agree, it is a sin. But how to control and overcome the strong urge to commit this sin?

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The Carriage Awaits

2009-01-30T21:14:00.004+05:30

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* Cinderella & The Fairy Godmother, wiki

Discover Who And What You Are, And Climb Into The Carriage
Well, why are you staring at me like this, darling? Haven't you seen a Fairy Godmother before? Who did you think I was? Some dolled up old hag from some old Warner Bros' movie from the fifties? It is because of modern kids like you that I had to take on the avatar of Tami in the new version of Warner Bros'. Pinch yourself, young lady. I am your Fairy Godmother! FG for short.

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Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall

2009-01-26T13:07:00.008+05:30

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* 'Nymph With Morning Glory Flowers' by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, wiki. Since the time of Adam and Eve, we have always judged the quality of our own beauty through the eyes of others, including that of the artist who painted this image of the 'beautiful' nymph.

Live By Your Own Standards Of Beauty And Handsomeness
The Greek storytellers of yore excelled in creating icons that have endured the passage of time. One among them is that of Narcissus. This son of a God and a nymph is considered to be the epitome of male beauty. The Handsomest Male To Ever Walk The Surface Of The Earth. He set the benchmark for others to judge their own beauty and handsomeness against. And invariably they would find their own judgment giving them a lower score. I bet all fellow males of his generation would forever have low self-esteem problems for as long as he lived!

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How Tillie Pulls Out Of The Avalanche

2009-01-19T10:20:00.008+05:30

By Breathing The Oxygen Of Self-Belief In Her Firebox, That's How
Do you remember Tillie? No, not the kid who had a perpetually running nose and who would chew gum all the time and later stick it into the hair of the other kids when they weren't looking. No, Tillie is the one who ferries a few car-loads of birthday toys from one town to another. And makes quite a song and dance of the ferrying thing, because the passage between the two towns is oh god so torturous and people think it is beyond her capacity to do the ferrying thing.

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Pygmalion And The Miracle Of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

2009-01-13T15:30:00.006+05:30

- Believe In Yourself - Believe In Your Creations
You wouldn't find young, handsome Pygmalion ever wearing that special look that young males think they should wear when in the vicinity of the objects of their desire. While the other hot-blooded male hunks spent their time chasing skirts and generally had fun --- Pygmalion, an introvert, silent type, would retire in his own private world where he would dream of the woman who was perfect in his eyes. Night and day he would ponder over this woman who did not exist - never existed - in the real world. So focused was he on the woman, that, slowly, his mind began to give it a shape. He could now clearly see in his mind's eye the features of the person he desired to have as his. Being a sculptor of the highest caliber, Pygmalion got himself a slab of the best marble there was, and began chiseling out from stone the woman in his dreams.

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Sed Fugit Interea

2009-01-03T17:19:00.005+05:30

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* Sundial - with the phrase 'Tempus Fugit' inscribed, wiki.

Time Flies, Flies Irretrievably

"It was the best of times,
It was the worst of times,
It was the age of wisdom,
It was the epoch of incredulity,
It was the season of Light,
It was the season of Darkness,
It was the spring of hope,
It was the winter of Despair,
We had everything before us,
We had nothing before us,
We were all going direct to Heaven,
We were all going direct the other way -
In short, the period was so far like the present period,
That some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
For good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. _*
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Get Back Your Self-Esteem After The Layoff

2008-12-28T14:42:00.004+05:30

- Keep Up The Good Cheer, Whatever Be The Times

- Have you seen it somewhere? It was with me all this while, but I don't know where I lost it. I have searched and searched. Within the bric-a-brac in the drawers, amongst the dustballs beneath the bed, in the midst of the geegaws lying on the loft, within the folding of the clothes in the wardrobe, everywhere. But it is nowhere to be seen. And I am feeling all lost without it. Can you help me find it, please?

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The Newspaper Is Put To This Use, Too

2008-12-23T21:07:00.003+05:30

From Birth To Death, The Newspaper Is Very Useful

The man looked withdrawn today. The eyes had sunk further in their sockets. There was a certain blankness about the eyes, as if withdrawn and focusing on something somewhere deep within. Lying on the bed in that small room in the hospice, his emaciated frame resembled a thin stick. It was only when the lower jaw moved that you realized that the stick was a human being. A newspaper lay on his stomach. The nurse had been helping him read it when I walked in.

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How To Halt - And Possibly Reverse! - Brain's Aging

2008-12-20T16:07:00.005+05:30

- And Best Is: This Technique Doesn't Cost Anything
A fact of life for you to digest: if you are past the adolescent age, then chances are that right at this moment, the size of your brain is, without your knowledge, slowly, inexorably shrinking. The gray cell volume peaked sometime during the time when you were sprouting those acnes; but it has been downhillsville since. The shrinking accelerates as you age in years. Do you find yourself easily distracted away from these words at the slightest noise around? Do you find your thoughts wandering to some pleasurable or hurtful moments of the past while doing something totally unrelated, so you take more time than normal to complete the task at hand? Ah, then these are symptoms of the brain getting old and getting smaller. And if you happen to belong to the male of the species - as I do -, then, congratulations, like everything else in your and my life, the speed of the brain shrinkage too is faster than the other gender. Let's enjoy the speed!

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Choose To Live A Life That Matters

2008-12-17T18:45:00.006+05:30

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* Michael Josephson, ethicist and author of the passage - "What Will Matter"
Amongst the gems strewn by ethicist Mr. Michael Josephson is this particular piece that is one of the most popular on the internet.

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,
will pass to someone else.

When Facing Troubles - Focus On The End Outcome You Want

2008-12-10T10:04:00.004+05:30

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* 'Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Amazon.com

...Being "In The Zone", As They Say, Helps You Reach Your Outcome
- Visualize the time when we were in there; yes, in the womb. You don't remember those moments, do you? I don't, either. But no harm in visualizing the time nevertheless. So let's visualize that we are in the womb. Properly fed, nourished and well looked after all 24X7. For all we care, this is the world as we know it. However, in the past few hours, there is this sensation that something is pushing us. Some squeeze happening… ouch! What was that? Why are we being turned upside down, left to right, as if being aligned across some axis, by some invisible, gentle but firm hands? And ...whoa! Now why are we being pushed like this? Why is there so much movement all of a sudden... Momma, it is scary! This slide through the narrow tract... oh, what is happening to me? Why is it happening to me? Oh what have I done? However, there is a strange feeling of surrender in this helplessness. A feeling that the end result will be good. Never mind that our faculty of focusing on the end outcome is undeveloped. And never mind that - at that point of time at least - we ourselves do not know what an end outcome we should be desiring for ourselves.

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Stop Deceiving Yourself - And Start Living Reality

2008-11-29T10:41:00.008+05:30

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* 'Head in the sand'. Do you recognize the two? The one on the left is an ostrich, the one on the right is one of us. That an ostrich deceives itself thus is an absolute myth; in fact, it would be offended were you to attribute to it the trait of self-deception. The same cannot, however, be said about the one on the right.

- "Self-deception is so undeniable a fact of human life that if anyone tried to deny its existence, the proper response would be to accuse this person of it." (Allen Wood, 1988)
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Stomp And Cry, Or Smile And Rejoice - It's Your Choice

2008-11-15T20:32:00.003+05:30

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* 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces' By Joseph Campbell, wiki

Crisis Brings About Change - Why Not Welcome Change With An Open Heart And A Cheerful Smile?
It was a favorite tack to break the ice in the class in a business school: I would begin the first OD (Organization Development) lecture by talking about Kurt Lewin and his ideas about how change takes place in an organizational setting; cite examples; and then invite them to draw parallels with their own lives. (You may google on the name to know more about Lewin's contribution to OD.)

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Achieving Stasis - The How To Of Calming The Mind And Centering The Self

2008-11-04T16:14:00.006+05:30

- In These Troubled Times, How To Achieve This Miracle?
-- This post is essentially a logical sequel to the earlier post on the benefits of keeping the mind calm and the soul, centered.

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Why We Should Learn To Calm The Mind And Center The Self

2008-10-26T14:45:00.008+05:30

These Skills Transform The Life In Great Many Ways, That's Why
--- Quite often we find ourselves staring at the task before us, perhaps important but not very urgent, to be completed and done with because there is a deadline, but then try as we can, the mind does not seem able to concentrate. A thousand-and-one thoughts race through the mind, all of them demanding a higher priority and somehow getting an attention higher than the silly little thing that the eyes are staring at. Happens, happens to almost all of us; that is human nature.

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When Despondency And Bleakness And Despair Surround From All Sides

2008-10-19T14:17:00.009+05:30

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* Poster of 'Final Destination 3', wiki.

Dispel Them All With Light And Hope And Cheer
--- "DO YOU BELIEVE IN FORTUNES?" the camera pans over the banner, ominous music playing in the background, before zooming up and giving a panoramic view of a theme park. A bunch of seventeen-year-old high school kids, enjoying themselves before their graduation ceremony, finally move towards the major attraction: a ride on the giant roller coaster. Suddenly, one of the kids has a premonition that people are going to die on the roller coaster. Her friends mock her. But some of them get out of the coaster cars before the ride begins. And when the ride begins, in a few moments, the premonition comes true. Those who had got out, survive.

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Children Are Like Sponge

2008-10-09T18:45:00.008+05:30

So Let's Be Extra Careful Of What We Want Them To Absorb
As a child, if you have experienced an episode or two of upsets in the family, you will understand what this means. At the onset of any family upset, the usual joy and happiness that seemed to be pervade the air burns up. The usual family breakfast and dinner banter goes into hiding. The smile and the mirth on the face of seniors evaporate. The usual joking and lazying and lounging around is now missing. The reason? The wage-earners are out of their job. Somebody in the family is going through a tough time. A divorce is in the making. Or any of the other umpteen reasons that make up the mosaic of life.

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The State Of The Human Mind At The Point Of Death

2008-10-07T14:42:00.015+05:30

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_* "Life After Life", by Dr. Raymond Moody, Amazon. This book and Dr. Moody's research brought "Near-Death Experiences" into the realm of scientific study.

Near-Death Experience Is A Great Eye-Opener!
Used to be a time when the subject of stepping beyond the boundaries of life - demarcated by birth and death at two opposite ends - was strictly the domain of experts such as your next-door tantric or shaman or aghori or kapalika. Talk about life after life, and images of these evolved beings spring to mind, they chanting some esoteric verses, skull in hand - for that added effect -, sitting in the dead of night in some graveyard, a just-died corpse lying beside them. Busy conducting an experiment to send the soul of this corpse into the netherworld to fetch something from there; upon completion of which task the soul is supposed to return back into the corpse and resume its place, so that the corpse comes back to life and no longer remains a corpse.

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The Crowd, It Has Begun Filling The Pews

2008-09-30T21:00:00.012+05:30

It Is Faith In A Higher Force That Sees Us Through
It takes a crisis to bring them back. The broad grins and the back-thumping vanished when it became clear that the bailout wasn't happening. The collective reaction: Sell, any which way you can, and get out as fast as you can from the market, at the earliest opportunity. The collective consciousness of the herd when there is a crisis; brought them out of the market floor and from their cubicles and terminals to the pews. That is the place they have been taught to gravitate to, whenever something very grave like this hits them.

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The Significance Of Annual Solar Returns

2008-09-24T17:01:00.008+05:30

Wishing Somebody "Happy Returns" Is Not A Mere Ritual
-- Astrologers use the technical word "Return" to mean the travel of a planet through the twelve signs of the zodiac and finally returning to a position it held on the day you were born. So you have a Martian Return, where the Mars returns in its position at your birth every two years. You have the Jupiter which returns every twelve years. The Saturn, ho hum, takes about 29 years or so. And then you have the grand Solar Return, which is the return of the Sun to the same position it was when you were born, and this it does every year, around approximately the same time of your birthday. Ergo, your birthday and the Solar Return are (more-or-less) the same. In case you didn't know already, this is why people wish you "Many happy 'returns'" on your birthday!

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When All Else Fails --- Pray!

2008-09-14T22:21:00.009+05:30

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'Praying Hands' by Albrecht Durer, wiki.

... Prayer Is Enforced At The Neuronal Level
Bear with me, this post is not an argument in favor of religiosity. The statement I am making here is that the simple act of praying, and submitting oneself to a Force higher than oneself - forget all the rituals and the practices and the dogmas - can and does do wonders to your mental health, your physiological health, as well as to your ability to manifest miracles in your life. Cut to the chase: We are talking about prayer as being a very powerful auto-suggestion technique, pure and simple.

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Carpe Diem? Or Delayed Gratification?

2008-09-07T14:40:00.011+05:30

...Don't Follow The Herd, Don't Toss The Coin Either

...sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi spem longam reseces.
dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas:
carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope
be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust to-morrow e'en as little as you may.

So wrote Quintus Horatius Flaccus - aka Horace - in his Odes, Book

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Triumph And Disaster - Are Both Imposters

2008-09-03T14:33:00.008+05:30

-- There are certain works of literature where you forget what you were reading even before the page is turned. And then there are some works that are timeless, ageless, priceless. In this latter category can unambiguously be put the "If" poem penned by Rudyard Kipling. Want to know what it takes to become a human being? And remain one? This poem lays down the tenets in black and white.

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... Treat Them Both Alike

At The Crossroads - Which Route Do You Take?

2008-08-27T05:13:00.006+05:30

Reconciling The Head With The Heart
Watching a four-wheeler taking shape on the assembly line of an automobile factory is a fascinating experience. The technicians pore intently over each and every mechanism of the contraption before sending it further ahead in the assembly, making sure that when the steering wheel comes into your and my hands, our ride is enjoyable.

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Your Emotions And Thoughts Have Incredible Power! Learn To Harness Them...

2008-08-18T21:22:00.007+05:30

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[* Built at a cost of US$ 20 billion, ITAIPU is the world's largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. A monument indeed to man's ingenuity, skill and determination. Amongst the elements of Nature that have the capability to generate power, is also the always-available but largely ignored power of the Mind.]

...Through Meditation, Auto-Suggestions
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Raise Your Hands - All Those Who Love Money

2008-08-10T23:36:00.007+05:30

Ask a packed room of people from any and all walks of life this question - "All Ye Folks! Raise Your Hands - Those Of You Who Love Money. Lots And Lots Of Money". Chances are that people will raise their amused expression and their hands without any second thought. What a question! Of course, who doesn't? Love money, that is. Even the kid sitting in the front with her parents will raise her hand. No, not to conform with the rest of the audience, but because she has been too close to the flames of the low-intensity warfare of the 24X7 bickering between her parents on who runs the show, sorry, the home. It's a part of her life - this money business. Oh, she knows how important money is, the little girl.

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Think Again! Are You Sure You Love Money?

Citius, Altius, Fortius - Celebrating Excellence In Physical Realms

2008-08-01T14:45:00.005+05:30

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[* Beibei - one of the five mascots of the Olympic Games being hosted by Beijing. Deeply symbolic, Beibei is a good luck doll that represents the blessing of prosperity.]

Testing Body's Limits Is Okay - What About The Limits Of The Mind?

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HIV-Infected? Try Meditation

2008-07-26T20:39:00.014+05:30

[This was one news item that was picked up faster than lightening by the wires and distributed around the world. Considering that there is no known cure to the condition, yet, and considering that there are approximately 33.2 million patients holding the HIV virus in their body (as at end of 2007), the news obviously holds immense value. And hope.

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Meditation As An Effective CAM For AIDS

This Olive Branch Made Of Gold Has Great Value

2008-07-20T21:27:00.004+05:30

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[* Gold replica of olive branch that Neil Armstrong placed in a bag and left it behind on the Moon during his trip there.]

This Olive Branch Lies On The Surface Of The Moon
Man's quest for exploration knows no bounds. Deploying whatever tools and devices the contemporary technology makes available, man has always sought to stretch his (her) stamina and perseverance to its limits, in order to explore and learn more about new lands, new places, and new cultures. (And look for opportunities to commercially exploit them, of course.) Having exhausted all avenues of exploration on earth, having concluded that earth is finite and round and there are just so many masses of land dotting the watery planet and, uh, only so many things to discover, man turned his (her) attention to the next available object to explore - the Moon.

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Rediscovering The Self - At Sunset Time

2008-07-14T17:57:00.003+05:30

After Living A Life Chasing Chimeras...

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The Perpetual Struggle With TIME

2008-07-12T20:02:00.004+05:30

The one person I always find perpetually struggling with time is James. James Bond. Movie after movie, the world watches with its breathing stopped, jaws dropped, body hunched forward, hands gripping the seat edge - will he, won't he? - as James, dear James, rushes frantically to locate the switch and turn it off and save the world from the evil machinations of the bad folks.

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Life Becomes Easier If We Are At Ease With Time
[* The World's Largest Clock at Colgate Factory, Clarksville, Indiana. Once the Keeper of Time, this clock is on the verge of being broken down and disposed off by weight to some scrap dealer. ]
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My Finest Day -- Is Yet Unknown!

2008-07-05T22:24:00.012+05:30

The transition from uncertainty to certainty. The morph from dithering to finality. The transformation from confusion to clarity. There is something special about moments that have the quality of decisiveness about them. Whatever be the project at hand: be it professional, be it business, or be it life-defining -- it is the transition, the morphing and the transformation that changes the color and the flavor of everything.

Each day I live
I want to be
A day to give
The best of me
I'm only one
But not alone
My finest day
Is yet unknown

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From The Last Solstice To This - What Has Changed?

2008-06-30T22:19:00.011+05:30

In just about a day's time as I write this piece, we will have hit the midpoint of the year. How time has flown! And to think that we were celebrating the New Year just the other day.

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The Cosmic Coupling Signals Shift In Gears In Our Life
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Turn Disability To Ability

2008-06-28T17:59:00.005+05:30

While rushing through the humdrum banalities of life, from the moment the alarm clock awakens till the time we flop back in bed, our entire existence is so driven to complete the plans of the day, that we hardly ever pause to re-connect with the most valuable physical asset we have, in fact the only physical asset that is well and truly ours, by birth and by right: our own body.

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A Matter Of Discovering One's Inner Strength

It Is Possible To Train A Mind To Be Happy

2008-06-25T21:23:00.006+05:30

Walk on a piece of land covered with lush grass, and reach from point A to point B. Your feet just about trample the grass, and the injured shoots shake themselves and manage to hold themselves upright. Keep walking everyday on the same track. What happens? A time comes when the green sheath gives way to expose the brown earth underneath.

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It Is Just A Matter Of Digging The Right Furrows

Scripting Alternate Realities

2008-06-24T22:43:00.006+05:30

Be The Script Writer Of Your Life's Story!

It was a pleasure to be called by the young director to see the rushes of the new movie project. The auditorium was full of these twenty-something kids, all of them bubbling with excitement and thrill at the prospect of seeing their own performances on the big screen.

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Is It A Planet? A Dwarf Planet? Or A Plutoid? What Is It?

2008-06-22T20:59:00.004+05:30

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[* Pluto Symbol - Astrodienst.com]

Redefining Celestial Bodies Doesn't Make Any Difference To The Bodies Themselves!
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When Science Meets Sentience

2008-06-17T17:18:00.014+05:30

It is a revolution quietly taking place in collective human consciousness. And Dr Jill Bolte Taylor's episode and report of her hemorrhage experience should actually be perceived as the latest in a series of now rapidly occurring milestones on the road towards the raising of this consciousness.

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Dr Jill's Episode Yet Another Milestone Towards Raising Collective Consciousness

When A Mistletoe Becomes A Spear

2008-06-12T15:10:00.005+05:30

When Pride And Contempt Cause This Transformation

For Loki he has taught us all
The best don’t always win
For was not Balder caused to fall
Cut down there by his kin?

[ From "The Saga of Alfred & Gudrum", Trevor Morgan ]

You remember the charm that the mistletoe once held for you? Yes? On that special day, you remember how you would position yourself underneath the sprig of this plant, yearning to be found underneath it by that special someone? You do? Great.

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Are You Sure You Have Chosen The Right Icons?

2008-06-07T12:50:00.004+05:30

Are Our Self-Defeating Patterns Driven By Our Icons?

There was a time, when Diana was alive, the medical terms "anorexia nervosa" and "anorexia bulimia" were the staple of coffee-table magazines. It had become a fashion to be diagnosed anorexic or bulimic, and girls vied with each other for who-has-the-thinnest-waist-and-the-boniest-structure of them all. Diana was an icon to them, you see.

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A Woman Journies To Get Her Silence Back

2008-05-31T23:01:00.008+05:30

42-year-old Kate Cook is a mother of two. She also happens to be a tinnitus sufferer. A medical condition that she has apparently inherited from her mother.
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Kate Cook's Interview With Mike Sadlier - Tinnitus

Wanted - A Paradigm Shift Towards EI-Based Values And Education

2008-05-28T23:22:00.004+05:30

We've Had Enough Of IQ!

Time was when the only attribute of role-models worth emulating was their IQ. The Intelligence Quotient. Science magazines often showed picture of that man with his tongue sticking out, and seniors shoved the picture before our eyes, expecting us to "be like him". Not in sticking out the tongue, but in matching his IQ.

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ADHD And Your Child

2008-05-25T17:59:00.008+05:30

An architect friend and I were recently discussing the various schooling options available to his kid who had completed her eighth grade and was moving to the ninth. Two more years, and she would be finishing secondary school already. How time flies!

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Two Most Dangerous Words To Beware Of

2008-05-23T22:54:00.008+05:30

…‘If’ Followed By ‘Only’

Bear with me, please, this is not a lesson in Grammar.

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Stressed At Work? Stressed In Relationships?

2008-05-22T07:28:00.006+05:30

The Rubber Band Can Be Stretched Only To A Limit

It is a common observation that you can stretch a rubber band to only so much. Beyond that, and you know what happens. The same is with a soul and body that are already groaning under stress. Add some more stress, and beyond a certain limit any one or a combination of myriad things can happen.

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The Power Of Auto-Suggestions

2008-05-19T20:45:00.003+05:30

One of the pillars of self-development is the concept of auto-suggestions. Indeed, this concept will be found in some form or the other in any of the self-dev tools that we work with. If the "Law of Attraction" is a law, then Auto-Suggestion is the axiom on which the law is based.

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Faking Emotions Helps!

Take Advantage Of The Economic Downturn

2008-05-15T19:28:00.003+05:30

It is that phase in the economic cycle when people do a reality check. Uncertainty looms ahead, and managements drive themselves crazy figuring out where the next big check is going to come from to keep the wheels of the organization running. Cowering in our own cubicle or workbench, we never know when they will hand us our proverbial pink slip and bid us goodbye.

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To Become Your Own Boss!

The Road To Denver Is Lonely

2008-05-13T18:00:00.012+05:30

The Never Say Die Spirit Of Hillary Clinton
It has been yet another long, grueling day, hasn't it been? Is that a sleeping pill I see on the side table there? Beside the glass of water, yes that one. Go easy on the pill thing, Hillary. It is still a long road ahead.

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Takes A Celebrity To Drive Home A Point

2008-05-10T16:34:00.007+05:30

Tom Cruise's Criticism Of Antidepressants

Tom Cruise's criticism three years ago of a fellow colleague taking an antidepressant to overcome her postpartum depression, came to mind when his interview with Oprah Winfrey was telecast a few days ago.

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'Before I was a Mom' - An Ode

2008-05-08T22:26:00.006+05:30

This post is an ode to all women who have borne - as well as those who are bearing, and also those who will bear, with the passage of time - the pain and the strain, the bliss and the tears of carrying the seed of life in their womb and later enjoying the pleasures and riches of rearing it after it comes into being.

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On The Occasion Of Mother's Day

The USD 100 Million Prize For Clean Fuels

2008-05-05T22:38:00.004+05:30

X-Prize Foundation’s Biggest Challenge Offer To Date

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Resolving Inner Conflicts

2008-05-01T20:10:00.025+05:30

[The following passage is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. While readers familiar with Asian cultures might be able to relate to the context of the passage, others may find it interesting to read up on the institution of "arranged marriage" prevalent in these cultures for a deeper understanding of the issues.]
"After waiting endlessly, one night she came to him on her own. Although the 'first night' was officially over long ago, the marriage had yet to be consummated. She was at a loss to understand the strange behavior of this man – the husband her parents had tied her to for the rest of her life.

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Resolve All Dichotomies In Life

When Humans Become Angels

2008-04-29T22:26:00.007+05:30

Touching The Underprivileged With A Magic Wand

The cherubic girl who sat before me could be just another college-going student. The carefree type, with the cell phone always in SMS-texting mode. It was only when she used the cell phone to call the charities commissioner, following up with him to get the "no-objection certificate" for the organization’s bus, which will allow them to obtain exemption on some taxes, that one realized that she meant business.

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You've Entered The Blue Zone

2008-04-25T21:33:00.003+05:30

"You've Entered The Blue Zone". The sign appears to make an emphatic statement. If I have to believe what the website says, then my biological age – which it defines as my body's age given my habits – is 38 years (in case it matters, I will complete 43 sometime this year). I am expected to live to the age of 86.9. But I can add 7.1 more years by further optimizing my lifestyle.

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Celebrate Longevity In This Zone!

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

2008-04-20T19:22:00.007+05:30

The seven kids of Kommandant Georg Ritter von Trapp ultimately couldn't have asked for a better tutor. After their mother Agathe's death, the father's military bearing had become rather stifling. The arrival of the music-loving, boisterous young nun from the nearby abbey changed all that.

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The Best Rearing That Any Child Can Wish For!

Earth Hour - The One Hour Of Darkness

2008-04-15T20:01:00.009+05:30

The Intention Is Noble – But A Shift In Focus Is Called For

The Earth Hour celebrated by 24 cities around the world generated a lot of media coverage. Not surprising, since the event is promoted by the WWF and backed by such powerful media conglomerates as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

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Dreams Are Our Friends - Cherish This Friendship

2008-04-10T19:38:00.027+05:30

For They Bring Revelations

"Don't talk to me!" Her voice sounds as taut as is her face. There is a strange mixture of hurt, sadness and anger about her, as she takes a side seat, without looking at me. As if about to burst in tears any moment. The vehicle begins to move.

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And They Lived Happily Ever After

2008-04-07T22:43:00.006+05:30

As kids, the best way to get our attention - and make us eat food! - was for an elder to pick up some storybook and begin – "Once upon a time..." And we would be plunged into a fantasyland where there was a beautiful princess who would fall in love with a handsome prince. And the monomyth would follow a predictable path of a villain creating all sorts of obstacles in the way of consummation of the love between the two cupid-struck hearts, and the latter overcoming all obstacles and finally uniting, "living happily ever after".

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Why Ever After? Driving Away The Villainy From Our Life

Tinnitus Sufferers - This Is For You

2008-04-03T22:23:00.007+05:30

When I had posted in a tinnitus forum my observations about meditation being an effective tool for handling tinnitus, the responses I received were a mix of incredulity and disbelief. It felt good to know, therefore, that a study carried out in laboratory conditions has reached the same conclusion that I did through my own crude, rustic method.

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Meditation Alleviates Tinnitus Condition

Heal Thyself - You Are Your Own Healer

2008-03-30T18:22:00.006+05:30

Don't Sidestep The Minefields Of Past Hurts - Examine Them

We all have some moments in the past that are best not mulled over. Some events, some people, some happenings, that we are not yet comfortable with. They either make us sad or sorrowful, or hurt and angry. We obviously wish that the life script had played out differently than it did.

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Handling The Archive Of Thoughts During Meditation

2008-03-24T23:48:00.004+05:30

Learn To Handle This; And You Have Made It!

Workshop On Meditation - Exercising The Muscles Of The Mind

2008-03-19T17:44:00.007+05:30

I and a few fellow-meditators have just concluded a ten-day-long workshop on meditation. The workshop was attended by a good 42 people in the age range from 11 to 62, from different walks of society and representing equally both the sexes.

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The "Muscles Of The Mind" Need Daily Workouts

Moments of Epiphany - Be Alert When They Come

2008-03-14T23:18:00.006+05:30

There is a certain coyness about these moments of epiphany. You wallow in the turmoil of your thoughts, working on the why and the how and the where-for. But you don't get enlightenment. And then, just when you have decided to give up, to simply let it be, pop! ...comes this epiphany. And the entire situation becomes crystal clear, like when the optometrist clicks the right glass in the lens holder, making the last line on the vision chart perfectly readable.

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Accept Changes Beyond One's Control

2008-03-10T12:01:00.004+05:30

Decide To Not Be Bogged Down By Circumstance
Jerry (his nickname) will not forget March the seventh of last Friday in a hurry. For that was the day when the world as he knew it collapsed around him.

Wednesday closing time was very volatile on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The

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Use Spring Time To Clear The Deadwood And Detox

2008-03-05T10:04:00.004+05:30

It is spring time! Time to put away the snow brush if we happen to live in the freezing zones. Time to set aside some time to clean the house. Time to get down on the knees, peer beneath the bed with long broom in hand, and remove all the detritus lying there. Time to climb up a high stool / step-ladder and reach out to the corners where the walls meet to gently sweep away the cobwebs. Time to mop away the goop on the kitchen walls (behind the oven), created last month by a hot porridge flung from a plate by somebody in an equally hot mood.

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Deadwood At Home, At Work, And In Relationships

Nothing's Gonna Change My World...

2008-02-29T11:23:00.006+05:30

In the first week of February this year, NASA turned its antenna in Madrid towards a distant star, Polaris, situated more than 430 light years from Earth. The venerable organization beamed the Beatles' song, "Across The Universe", towards the star.

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Unrequited Love - The Sad Shade Of Valentine

2008-02-25T10:24:00.068+05:30

"A mighty pain to love it is,And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain."
Abraham Cowley, "Anacreontiques"

Let's Spare A Thought For Unrequited Lovers

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While Pushing To Achieve Miracles At Work

2008-02-22T10:55:00.006+05:30

Don't Overlook Those Magical Moments!

In their drive to succeed at work, people usually become very ruthless and callous. The stress of beating deadlines, the flow of creative juices while brainstorming with colleagues, the joy of explaining projects and tasks to juniors, the excitement of attending meetings involving seniors and supervisors where your work is being appraised... can be quite exhilarating and thrilling... but the downside is that one's perspective becomes so skewed that the subtler, more magical moments of one's life get overlooked.

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