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He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
Some of my students pondered my article from yesterday and asked themselves: why am I not reading?One found something that may be the reason billions of people don’t read: by the time they would get to reading, they are too tired. They are spent.The priority they assign to reading is low.Normal lives are full of … Continue reading “Rocks, pebbles, and sand that your life organized around”
Agitate.Agitate is an old word, and has fallen out of favor. But it is very useful for our purposes: finding what is hidden, so you can start dealing with it.Agitating (my concept, my understanding of the word) is to shake up. To make the parts move, so they rearrange. So that what’s important but is … Continue reading “Agitate to get to the invisible layers… the real enemy”
If you love yourself, you love your life.It sounds so good, but how could you? How could you love yourself, knowing all the horrible things you have done?!Last night, after the Playground, after I turned the light off. memories of those horrible things started to revisit.After about 10-15 minutes of that I was feeling really … Continue reading “Playground: The One Ring Method to rule it all”
Drifting? Aimless? Unhappy? Bored? So-so? Read this article…I just watched two book reviews of the same book, Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. Why? Because I wanted to get the gist of it, without having to chew 300 pages plus.But I am still interested to hear the principles, in 10 minutes instead of 10 hours… wouldn’t … Continue reading “Unhappy? Bored? So-so? Read this article…”
How do you know what you are afraid of? Why you are afraid… even when you have no reason to be.It was 1991. Georgia… some miles from Atlanta, in a hunting lodge. November. Communication Commando Course.Just the name was enough to put the fear of god in me. But then they ushered me in this … Continue reading “How do you know what you are afraid of? Why you are afraid”
I woke up drenched in sweat from a dream this morning.I was in a diner. I shared the table with someone… I took out a credit card to pay. I went to the cash register, and I didn’t have my card… in fact, all my cards and my cash were gone.Scary, isn’t it? Lots of … Continue reading “Your dance card is full yet your life is empty, meaningless”
I had an insight last night when I checked my tongue in the mirror.The insight wasn’t about my tongue. It wasn’t even about my health. It was about how in spite of all I can laugh, and crack up, and be a total disruption to … something.The insight was, that I was always that way. … Continue reading “Should you struggle or should you live? Please look!”
I just spent almost four whole days and whole nights in bed, in and out of sleep.It was new to me to think of myself first, and of ‘duty’ second.But I have learned, the hard way, that if I don’t take care of myself, I may be dead sooner than I’d like.Actually it wasn’t hard … Continue reading “Musings. Thoughts that an unplanned ‘vacation’ gave me”
