12/04/2011
If being virtuous means having less fun then the purpose of life must not be having fun.
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12/04/2011
Awareness of determinism is one thing. However, to base one's decision making (or a lack of it) on the notion that we don't have free will is, in my view, insane!
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12/03/2011
The only truly happy man is a wise man; otherwise a drunkard is also happier than the average.
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11/26/2011
People who are bored by philosophy, but often complaining about something of life are big turnoffs to me. They are like kids, narcissists, who don’t want to understand why something is problematic but only want to have their way, or cry.
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11/19/2011
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11/06/2011
Great writer is he who doesn't write what he won't read if it was by someone else.
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11/03/2011
To not want to commit to solid goals is to want to remain an infant. Unfortunately, the universe won't treat you like one, once you're an adult.
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11/01/2011
Knowledge is after all just knowledge. Without 'understanding' in life, man is lost.
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10/31/2011
The head needs certainty to work; but the heart is erratic. What one must, then, work out is flexible certainty.
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10/27/2011
Sparked from Jevons paradox, I have a theory that the more efficient technology we make available, more of our energy will be sucked in by it. And I think I am not wrong. Many offices now work 24x7.
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10/27/2011
If we invent technology that increases productivity manyfold, shouldn't it reduce the work hours? And we think technology is making our lives better. Duh!
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10/22/2011
Having the knowledge that life is absurd is not something one can be proud of, however true that may be.
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10/22/2011
- You know what, there's no God; we're totally on our own! That means we can do anything! Heck, we don't even have free will! It's just the laws of physics determining what we do. Isn't that, um.. something?
- Yes, quite a progress that is for the humanity. We're doing great!
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10/18/2011
Only those who close their minds can be certain. Others will always face new conundrums in life to challenge their convictions and incite doubts.
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10/16/2011
Everyone is selfish. But noble is he whose selfish motives are aligned with good interests of something greater than himself.
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10/16/2011
When I will need what you can give, I will talk to you. When you will need what I can give, you will talk to me. It's always that way with everyone; whether we acknowledge it or not.
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10/15/2011
The only asset of any value a human being has is his intellect, his capacity of reason.
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10/15/2011
When there is instant gratification of wishes there is nothing to cherish and nothing to live for.
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10/13/2011
If looking at a drunkard dancing on a public street, you get depressed for not having good enough reasons to enjoy life like him, then there's a serious problem with your world-view.
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10/13/2011
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10/10/2011
That knowledge which doesn’t help make life better in any way is absolutely worthless.
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10/08/2011
Imagine you are a company. Your "self" is the product. Society is the market. You want to be successful. How will you be(-have)? Isn't it true that customer satisfaction is the key? This might give you some insight for making a good life.
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10/07/2011
Any stance can be proven right or wrong. The only unbeatable position is of having no stance; but it's hard-as-hell to live on that position.
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10/05/2011
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09/30/2011
Direct pursuit of happiness is a narcissistic one. More than being happy, it is important to have a virtuous life. And the happiness it will generate as a by-product will be the happiness like no other.
From Happiness as the goal of life — right or wrong?
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09/30/2011
No sweet talks, no cute faces, no amount of great sex, not even passion of love… In the end, only the respect for your thoughts will provide you the highest meaning. More than anything else, look for people who respect you for your thoughts (for you are what you think).
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09/30/2011
It is better to keep trying to make sense of the life (even if it is unfathomable) than to decidedly live under delusions.
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09/30/2011
I would rather take the direction (of philosophical advancement) where I might find some comfort than go the way (of mindless living) where I know there is none.
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09/29/2011
Earlier unattractive people had to rely solely on their intelligence to attract others' attention. Now there are beauty techniques (hair-straightening, plastic surgery etc). Consider the implication.
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09/27/2011
Best way to avoid being stuck in the meaninglessness is to have a worthwhile ambition and be continuously productive with respect to it.
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09/25/2011
When you're flooded with too many choices in people, (just like in anything else) your relations with them become fickle. Bravo to social networks!
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09/25/2011
Kill tradition and bring sexual freedom, and let marriage become an utopia and ugliness crime!
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09/23/2011
Wisdom is to accept the reality, the imperfect world as it is. To want no less than perfect is to secure but empty-handedness.
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09/22/2011
Thorough philosophical and spiritual development through formal education may be a solution. But it's not as convenient (and I doubt if it will even be as effective) as religion has been in moral guidance to the humanity.
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09/21/2011
The day you realize that you are as much flawed as the ones you are bashing, that will be the day of enlightenment, and will leave you humbled for life.
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09/19/2011
Infants need to be unconditionally loved and accepted. An adult asking for unconditional love and acceptance, on the other hand, is suffering from a growth disorder. (via Harmanjit Singh)
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09/18/2011
Our world is not designed to function with radical honesty. Lies are essential to keep the world from falling apart.
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09/17/2011
Use and throw approach extended to people is called one-night-stand (and fuck-buddies, fling etc.)
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09/17/2011
You can keep whining about how people don't understand you and lamely try to attract sympathy... Or you can invest that energy in self-development.
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09/15/2011
When you are lonely in life you pick one person to cling on to and end up being treated like a parasite. Why not instead "develop" to be so awesome that people don't leave you alone!
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09/15/2011
Some truth is so ugly that even if you understand it you have to play ignorant, if you wish others to have meaningful relationships with you.
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09/14/2011
There's trade-off between fulfillment of one's sophisticated human needs and one's needs as an animal. And all suffering is due to this eternal, unsolvable conflict.
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09/14/2011
Biological fact: Girls fall for guys with high testosterone (sexually bold, outspoken, flirts, for example) [animal instinct]. And then they want their guy to be honest and sincere and the relationship to last forever [human need]. Ah, what a painful joke!
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09/13/2011
Having a "complete", happy family can be one of the greatest achievements of human life.
— thought after watching Tokyo Story
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09/12/2011
If you do not believe in God, you can't afford the luxury of having unrealistic expectations from life. For then when you get hit, "Daddy" isn't around to comfort you.
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09/07/2011
Marriage seems to have become outmoded in today's melieu. After a few generations humans will have evolved to be comfortable without the security of marriage and family. Or so we hope.
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09/04/2011
If one is incapable of living a normal life, enjoying things that an average human being enjoys, because one has "some knowledge", then that knowledge, I say, is a disease.
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09/01/2011
Best solutions to life's most intricate problems lie in following your intuitions.
Rationality versus intuitions
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09/01/2011
Do not hunt for love. And when it finds you at the most unexpected time, do not turn your back on it.
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08/29/2011
Marriage is the best solution available to the human condition. For it provides everything humans crave; from sex to security to meaning in life.
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08/25/2011
True love, unlike romantic love, comes at a huge psychological cost of defying the Universe (natural forces) for greater ''human goals'' (family and life-long companionship). Only the best and the greatest human beings can achieve it.
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08/25/2011
Proponents of Humanism (in place of Religion) seem to assume the masses to be highly intelligent. Religion provides a single moral center of gravity (which is essential for social order) which i doubt any other God-less system can achieve.
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08/25/2011
There's a thrill even in gazing at the sky. Why people have to go skydiving to feel ''life'' is beyond me. I doubt the claim that it removes the fear of death and enables one ''live more'' after that experience. That sounds like a new age bullshit.
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08/25/2011
Money can't buy happiness. But a rich man can at least do charity and derive happiness thus. A poor man can't even do that. Money matters.
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08/25/2011
Advisably, one should not make any important decision of life when under the effect of (romantic) love. The tragedy is, we are tempted by nature to make the most important decision of life in that state.
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08/04/2011
Coming to terms with imperfection of the existence is the highest wisdom, and the pinnacle of self-development.
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07/30/2011
Ignorance per se is not bliss. He who said "ignorance is bliss" himself must have been a very knowledgeable person.
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07/18/2011
Craving for human attention and companionship is fundamental to us. He who doesn't have it is hardly living.
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07/18/2011
There's no better remedy to human suffering than empathy and compassion. Love is the only answer.
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06/28/2011
Everyone who's living by intuition is living with double standards (just like Nature itself). When one becomes "aware" of it, and tries to become "perfect", that's where one blunders. Imperfection is Nature.
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06/26/2011
The only difference between a spiritually developed person and an ignorant person is of the underlying awareness; and not necessarily of actions.
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06/26/2011
Only outward seeking (without exploring one's inner terrain) is an invitation to tragedy.
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06/26/2011
Not knowing is a misery; knowing too much is another kind of misery. To seek or not to seek, that is the question; the question you answer, and there you have erred.
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06/23/2011
Just because someone doesn't agree with your views, that doesn't make him/her less right; because right and wrong are only floating concepts, and don't exist in absolute sense.
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06/21/2011
Without connecting with another human being happiness is impossible; and without happiness life isn't justified. Hence, dissociation from human world is essentially "not living".
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06/20/2011
Life is by default suffering. Those who don't understand it cry; those who understand and accept it can but laugh.
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06/18/2011
Pure rationality (reductionism) is a dead-end. Even believing in God is preferable to that.
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06/16/2011
If you are into writing business, you can't afford intellectual laziness; unless you are writing jokes.
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06/14/2011
The people who don't have the capacity to become a govt must not have the power to break the existing one.
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06/11/2011
The quest for perfection isn't futile just because perfection as one conceives it doesn't exist. Only he who seeks perfection on the first place can truly understand that it is not, and thereby come to terms with imperfection – which in a way is real perfection.
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06/11/2011
There is some pleasure in doing things others tell you you can't; but just others telling you you can't is not a reason enough to do those things. Be wise to know what you really want.
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06/10/2011
When you are doing something that other people wish to do but can't, they will come finding faults with your ways; because they need to feel good about themselves somehow.
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06/04/2011
Emotions are no doubt important. But an intellectually blunt person is unlikely to have a lasting relationship, much less a happy marriage.
[The one who doesn't understand this^ may consider himself intellectually blunt.]
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05/27/2011
A person should be intelligent enough to form his principles and wise enough to know they can be broken at times.
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05/24/2011
Every thinker is not necessarily wise; but every wise man is essentially a thinker.
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05/24/2011
Not all thinkers meet with wisdom; that doesn't mean thinking is useless. Wisdom is essentially a product of critical thinking.
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05/19/2011
Only two types of people can live a healthy life. Those who are perfectly ignorant, and those who are perfectly aware. Both are rare.
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05/15/2011
To live life and not understand it is more healthy than to understand life and not live it, but less healthy than to understand and live life.
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05/06/2011
Happiness is important to MAKE life worth living. And contentment is important to KEEP life worth living. Former is the function of emotions, while the latter is the function of intelligence. Both emotions and intelligence are equally important for a good life.
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05/03/2011
Human consciousness is a curse because it is being driven by two unavoidable forces, biological impulses and reason, which are eternally in conflict with each other.
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04/26/2011
Unpredictable as life is, making promises and commitments is a naive business. The only promise a matured person can make is: I will do the best I can.
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04/26/2011
In the (seemingly) hostile and violent universe the biggest curse on humans is their consciousness, and the greatest gift to them is their ability to think and reason. Everyone who has the curse has to use the gift to the best. That's the only possible redemption.
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04/24/2011
Friendship is not (necessarily) about keeping in touch, or being there in each other's need, even. It's just the way we regard the person. Only those who understand this can remain friends forever.
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04/20/2011
Life doesn't treat you. You treat life. And it's in your hands whether to treat it well or not.
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04/16/2011
Every moment contains so much good in itself. It's only when we link our present moment with the past and/or the future, we experience all sorts of suffering.
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04/15/2011
Everybody judges everyone. Nothing's wrong with that. It's the parameters one uses that tells whether or not one is good.
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04/12/2011
I don't have any individuality other than being a truth-seeker. If you are truer than me, I will change to be you.
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04/11/2011
Everybody has skewed opinions, for there's no such thing as right opinion. People accept those which fall into line with their own.
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04/05/2011
Passion is not what you do as a pastime. It's what you do regardless of whether you have time or not.
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04/03/2011
Suffering is the default state of conscious beings. Spiritual development is a hack to break free of suffering.
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04/01/2011
Spiritual development is not a choice that you will work toward when you have the mood. It's a necessity, without which you are bound to suffer for life.
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03/26/2011
If you are spiritually developed and thus happy without dwelling on any kind of illusion/delusion then whatsoever you are doing, I respect you.
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03/25/2011
The level of your personal development reflects not in how many women you've screwed, or how great your love life is, but in how happy you are able to keep without the both, amongst other things. How prepared you are to face the indifferent reality!
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03/19/2011
Calling an ugly-looking person beautiful is as much an insult to his individuality as calling a beautiful person ugly.
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03/11/2011
Don't do something because you are told it is right. Right is whatever makes you feel good doing.
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03/05/2011
Before thinking to bring joy to others' lives one has to be joyous in oneself.
From Should we live for other people’s happiness?
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03/01/2011
A nihilist would say: It doesn't matter in the vast universe whether you live or die. So die! An enlightened person would say: Yes, it doesn't matter in the least. That's exactly the point. Why try to change what IS!
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02/28/2011
Perfect understanding of the problem is a sure way to be completely free of suffering arising from it.
From Understanding spirituality in a few words
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02/18/2011
If you're obsessed with life, truth is absurd. If you're obsessed with truth, life is absurd.
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02/16/2011
If you want to know whether your friendship with this person (of the opposite sex) is real or hormone-induced, just ask yourself whether you would have been friends if the two of you were the same sex.
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02/10/2011
Suffering of humankind is not because of not knowing what the universe is made of or how gravity works. It is because people haven't figured out their own mind. So, which knowledge is important?
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02/10/2011
Don't judge a person's greatness by his knowledge, or status, or education, or eloquence, or personality, or fan-following... The only measure of greatness is the quality of one's ideas; how useful they really are. E.g. Buddha is infinitely greater than Newtons and Einsteins.
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02/06/2011
For enlightenment you don't have to believe that the world as you see it is an illusion. When you are there you'll know it.
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01/31/2011
Do not go truth seeking for the sake of itself. Do it to bring ease to your life. If the truth you have discovered doesn't ease your life, it's useless. If it does, it's all there was to seek.
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01/30/2011
Feeling insecure in relationships is not a disease, but a beginning of realization of truth.
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01/29/2011
Spiritual enlightenment does not mean knowing everything. It means knowing enough to never fall prey to suffering.
From Understanding spirituality in a few words
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01/28/2011
Any meaning of life is a delusion. This very knowledge would make a great difference in the way one lives life.
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01/28/2011
In the inherently meaningless universe one must be deluded to see a cause higher than one's own life.
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01/27/2011
Whether the universe has always existed or it has a beginning are the questions absolutely immaterial.
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01/20/2011
Don't be friendly with the stupid, or he will start thinking you are one of his kind.
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01/17/2011
Teaching is a good profession only if you have enormous amount of creativity in you coupled with ceaseless passion for learning.
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01/15/2011
Crisis is woven in the very fabric of existence. No amount of spiritual development can rid creatures of crises. It can only make us immune to the suffering and enable us face life in its true form with utmost joy.
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01/14/2011
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01/13/2011
Trusting a person is but some kind of commitment assumed. Any commitment, seriously dwelt on, is absurd.
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01/11/2011
When EVERYTHING you see around is disappointing, that means you need to have a new (and improved) perspective!
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01/11/2011
Just because our judgments about other people are sometimes wrong that doesn't mean being judgmental is wrong.
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01/10/2011
Spirituality is pure truth-seeking about your being. It has nothing to do with God, religion and mysticism.
From Understanding spirituality in a few words
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01/09/2011
Do not be kind to the undeserving. For then his complacence will do no good to anyone.
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01/05/2011
Enlightenment is a gradual process. He who says he is enlightened since certain moment is probably in some kind of delusion.
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12/11/2010
It's not what I am getting in life. It's what I am doing with what I have got, that decides the quality of my life.
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12/05/2010
Equality is not in equal distribution of wealth, but in provision of equal opportunities to earn it.
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11/27/2010
If you play it only to win then you will miss life completely, because wining is not a part of the game called life.
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11/26/2010
You don't have to get rid of anything. Just embrace the reality and everything that is unreal, useless, should rid you automatically.
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11/24/2010
Whether you be yourself or try to fit into others' expectations, the fact is that in the end, you are and will remain alone. So why not be yourself.
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11/19/2010
An enlightened person lives on the tune of Nature. He doesn't need to know what is moral or immoral.
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11/17/2010
It amazes me to see people who make issues out of virtually harmless cartoons like Pokemon for infusing violence in kids' minds buying atom bombs and missiles for their kids on abhorrent festivals like Diwali.
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11/17/2010
Not intelligence, sometimes I think, stupidity is the most amazing thing humans possess!
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11/09/2010
Happiness shows how life is treating you. Contentment reflects in how you are treating life.
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11/08/2010
There is always at least one criterion by which everyone discriminates between people. Absolute non-discrimination is impossible, and even unfair!
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11/02/2010
Inequality is not injustice. Injustice is the system that allows the undeserving man to rise and cripple the deserving one.
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10/27/2010
When you outsource morality and critical thinking to authorities (like religions) you are harming yourself the most, because in the long run you are crippling yourself.
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10/20/2010
Optimism is invented to cure the sickness called pessimism. Realists, being of good health already, don't require it.
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10/16/2010
Acknowledging the reality worse than your imagination is not pessimism. Pessimism is when you imagine worse than the reality.
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10/13/2010
It's foolish of one to be proud of something which has happened without one's willful involvement.
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10/04/2010
No action is in itself immoral. Something you do is immoral only when you know that it will directly or indirectly harm you and you still do it.
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10/03/2010
There is not a single relation of yours who is not using you. He who does not use you does not need you.
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09/26/2010
In matters of point of view, diplomats are worse than your opposers. Because your opposer at least has their own view and is loyal to it
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09/21/2010
Respecting others does not mean putting your will aside and doing everything they expect you to do.
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09/21/2010
Not good wishes, nor compliments, nor devotion, nor kindness, not even love... The only thing that wins me is uncorrupted intelligence. For that would include every other emotion in refined form.
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09/20/2010
I feel it when I am following something blindly just because every one else is doing it. And the feeling is not good.
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09/20/2010
Logic is integral to intelligence. When it is abandoned, intelligence starts producing bad results.
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09/19/2010
An honest criticism is not an act of arrogance. For criticism is not the same as showing off your knowledge.
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09/15/2010
Fulfillment in life is possible only in two conditions. Either you don't have conscience, or you have it and use it with perfect honesty.
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09/14/2010
However intelligent you may be, if it does not get you fulfillment in life then it's all a waste.
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09/12/2010
There is nothing great about religious fasting. Torturing your body that way is just another madness on the name of god.
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09/11/2010
Selflessness that I refer to is but sublimest form of selfishness. For perfect selflessness is only possible in death.
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09/08/2010
The artist crying for his stolen work is NOT an artist but a businessman crying for having incurred a business loss.
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09/06/2010
Obsessive love is a slavery. And slavery in any form is bad. Absolute freedom of spirit is the highest good.
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09/05/2010
Because of patents and copyrights an idea which is free floating in the universe gets the owner. That's absurd.
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