Goes On

It's never done. Not at least until death.

This is Who I am

Ok. Here is something you all should know about me.

I am NOT an average person. No, I am not. I am not just another person, trying to be 'just happy'. No, please get yourself clear about it. I repeat. I do NOT claim to be an average person, who is happy being imperfect and full of shortcomings. No, I am not happy with that. And for that matter, making myself happy is NOT what I live for.

This is the most commong thing I hear and read about people. They say "I am an ordinary person, I just want to lead a simple life, I am not perfect, I want to be happy, etc etc".

I know I am repeating. But lets get this very very clear. This is NOT how I think. I think: I am a person, yes, with finite capacities in most dimensions, but, I DO WANT to be perfect. Yes, I want to be a great person. I want to excel in those uniquely human faculties, such as morality, honesty, kindness and curiosity. I DONT want to be just happy. Because that is SUCH a vague and meaningless statement. If I say I want to be happy, it does not really mean anything specific. Surely, one can be happy by being hurtful to others feelings. And please dont lecture me by Bullshiting that, harming others cant make one happy. Because it is wrong. There are people, they can be very happy, even when they are being unjust, cruel and dishonest. I don't like it, same as you do not, bu that's just fact. Let's accept it and work from there.

Having said this, I have many sub-goals in life. To be perfect is not a matter of joke. It 'may not' be even possible, specially when the concept of perfect is not clearly defined. But here comes the other important thing I want to talk about today. It is, I think, one should dream BIG. I mean really really BIG. A dream that sounds perfectly possible at the very first glance, is a shame for a dream. Nope I do NOT agree with you that, dreams should be realistic. ABSOLUTELY NOT. Dream by definition has to be 'seemingly' impossible. That's exactly why they are called dreams. I DO NOT understand why people ignore this simple meaning of a dream.

(To Be Continued.)

What it means to exist

The whole experience of existence is an artifact of time.

I Will Hold On

Forgiving others unconditionally is the greatest favor I have ever done to myself.

Anybody?

I live in a different world - a world where I am yet to meet a real person.

Unspecified

The truth that can't be touched could be an illusion as well.

There is a general lack of specification in nature. Everything kind of extends to a bit rather than being exact and point like. Nature avoid sharp boundaries and things gradually fall into each other and merge, rather than transforming abruptly. There is a general tendency to resist change of any kind.

Cogito

Clear thought is a very powerful and extremely effective tool for happiness.

Core

Never hurt anyone. Hurt creates more hurt.

Do not break heart. In my very limited knowledge, I am not sure about almost anything. But I still know, breaking heart is seriously wrong.

Never do injustice. If justice seems unclear, rather sacrifice your own interest to others, to be on the safe side.

Do not fall into the trap of greed. Display gratitude, not need for more.

Accept, don't frustrate. Act, don't complain.

Forgive everyone. Unconditionally.

Raise your moral standard. Everyday, every moment. Raise self respect.

Do not display weakness. Stand up. Protect your dignity.

Uphold Freedom. Do not compromize freedom for comfort. Freedom is the best comfort.

Core

I can not expect justice or fairness from anyone or anything. The ability to understand what is fair and what is not is there, only to judge my own actions.

The reason for this is, there is actually no guarantee in nature, that there will be any kind of justice. So I can't expect that. And the reason why it is applicable for my actions, is, it is necessary for my own happiness. Nature does not have a system of justice in place, but I do internally.

This has tremendous consequences on my life. It means, I need to give priority to others interests over mine and can not expect that from others. It means, I can be judged and punished for my wrong doings, but can not expect that for other's actions. No matter how much I am hurt, I must always be in love. I must transcend the loop of expectation and detach my mechanism of happiness compeletely from the effects of others actions. I have to create a very thick crust around me; which will shield me from the hurts caused by others and stop interfering with my internal world. I need to create a heaven of peace, justice, beauty and kindness within that crust, where I truly live and maintain purity from the outside world forever. This is the core philosophy of my life.

Horizon

Death is a life long process.

The Search

The best answer to a question, generally invalidates the question, instead of giving a direct answer.
The best way to happiness is most likely an effort to remove all the hopes and longings, instead of trying to figure out how to achieve those.
This universe is a lot about finding how our everyday perception is wrong and incomplete. We keep peeling the reality and the reality keeps shrinking.
The search for ultimate reality may well end up in an absolute void, something so void, we can't even imagine.

QQ

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes

Tomorrow or Today?

Sometimes in life, we want to be so cautious, we almost stop living it. In the overly meticulous attempt of making the future pain-proof we take insane amount of pain for today. Is it not really fool of us? May be I am not as good a foreseer as many others, but I think this is something we really need to give a second thought at - sometimes.

Universal

It's all the same. Differences are only superficial. In space and in time.

There is no start. There is no end. Start and End are probably among the top most misleading intuitive expectations we have.

All boundaries are subject to and entirely dependent on interpretation.

Cloudland State Park

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Is there a limit?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/04/taliban-flogging-inquiry-pakistan

Breezing through.. too fast
Trying to catch it
Chances


What is real?
What is beyond interpretation? Is there anything at all?

Concepts. Mathematical, Geometric.

Effects.

QQ

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
- Carl Becker

Trying (forever) to accept Meaninglessness
Deeply puzzled
A bit Relaxed
A bit Hopeful

Points to Ponder

"There's an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction"

-JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech - June 5 2008

Thoughtful
Kind
Puzzled
Uncertain
Waiting

What a Wonderful World

Deeply frustrated
Extremely Angry
Tensed
Very much afraid
Greatly confused
Filled with Guilt
Lonely
Sad
Restless
Very Stressed
Hopeless
Failed
Aimless

Black Rock Mountain

QQ

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePatner

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
- Russell Baker

Perspective

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow

We and our brains

No human thing is of serious importance. - Plato

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

What not to do

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby

Into the Unknown

The further I go,
The longer it gets.

I never reach.

Do Not Take It Easy.

Nothing is easy. And nothing should be taken easily. Everything matters. Everything is serious. Take it easy is the worst thing to say.

4 simple statements

1. Morality, ethics, sense of right and wrong, good or bad ====> No real existence

2. Consistency or presence of laws in nature is probably a property of existence. Anything that exist in a plane (or domain) has to have consistency with the other objects of that plane (or domain), with respect to whom it exist.

3. Existence itself is the closest thing to the concept of God. There is probably nothing more beyond that.

4. An existence that exist to itself as well, is life.

Dynamics of Mind

Like a car we need to drive our mind. As we can not drive a car on the road haphhazardly without the risk of accidents, so is the case with our mind. The level of freedom we get in our thinking world puts us under enormous possibility to think otherwise. We take it almost granted that it's ok to think whatever we want to - that in thinking there could be no real danger. In the land of imagination, we can wander about aimlessly without the fear of any harm. The only difference we appreciate is: if we think smartly, we might be able to achieve more. This is true. But it's only part of the whole picture.

The important fact that we miss here is, we think we can change the direction and context of our thinking in zero time. It seems to us that we can think of anything at anytime without any major effort. This could not be further from the truth. The notion of freedom in our choice of matter of thinking is illusionary. Like a car we can not suddenly change the direction or the speed without losing the momentum or getting into an accident. Surely, there can not be an one to one mapping between a car running on the road and a mind wondering in thoughts. This means, it is probably true that we have more flexiblity in our minds, to change the subject and the rate it changes at, than a present day car. But that difference is certainly not infinite. In fact, it's quite smaller than we can apprehend at first. The flexbility and speed of our thinking mind can change very rapidly in short term, but it's very hard to do the same in long term. Mind does have it's own momentum and like the momentum of a physical body, it also resists changes. Change in mind too, thus requires proportionate application of force, no less than a car or a physical body does. The difference is only in our inability to see it, not in actuality.

Driving a mind is more challenging and engaging than driving a car by many orders of magnitude. We do not drive cars constantly. But we do think at all time. We know when to refuel our car and how to do it, but little is known to us, how we can keep our mind strong for the task it has to complete. Physical food can not be a complete replenishment for the decay of our mind. We need something intellectually revitalizing and refreshing. We seldom appreciate that.

All these facts only indicate a higher chance of mishaps in our mind. And ironically enough, we know very little about how to recover from a 'mind crash' as well. Our knowledge about the dynamics of our mind are as poor as our readiness to address the recovery of probable failure. Mind is our greatest asset as human beings. Yet, we perhaps couldn't care less about it. We need to change. Surely.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Thoughtful Quotes

Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

Simple Big Questions

Am I in a test?

The new life

I see a new life.

Or perhaps an old one, the original one, the very original way.

I am excited, thrilled, terrified, hopeful and eager to embrace it.

Quotes to be understood

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. - Mark Twain

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

Quotes to remember

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

Beginning

A new sun is at the horizon.

The World Is In Our Hands

"See Who I Am
Break Through The Surface
Reach For My Hand And Shout Out That We Can
Free Your Mind And Find A Way
The World Is In Our Hands

This Is Not The End"

Growing

Growing is painful. Be it the muscle or the mind.

Really

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard

The Fears

My fears have drowned me deeper than what they are about.

Perfect line of the year

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotable Quotes

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. - George Iles

QQ

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." ~E

Thoughts of the day

What is a good process to find the optimal extent to which a problem should be attempted to be solved, before pushing the whole problem or part of it out of the problem's initial domain?

What are the important criterias to consider in this decision process?

What is the most generic method of solving a problem?

QQ

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding

Life

I awe with wonder,
at
the simplicity yet richness
the beauty weaved into mystery
the vastness with the minutest of details
the grand puzzle, the ancient question
presented in such meticulous arrangement!

It's but a Game
to be played with
hope, fear, love, happiness, sorrows and wonder
to seek the answers.

Revelation

'I' date back to the origin of the universe itself. I have not come from the universe. The universe emerged into me.

I am, the universe.

Hello there!

A line from "Desperate Housewives", ep 19

"I love him enough to let him hate me"

Interpretation

Cohesion

Yes

Mean people suck.

Me

I will not succumb. I will prevail. I will survive. I will succeed.

QQ

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -E.

Being kind to the Self

Once I've taken the pressure of keeping myself happy, out of myself, I have become happy again, or at least, I am not as unhappy as I was before.

QQ

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958

I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. Georges DuhamelFrench author (1884 - 1966)

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. Woody Allen (1935 - )

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen (1935 - )

Stupidometer

It calculates the amount of stupidity of a person, direclty from the time, that person takes between facing a problem and googling it.

QQ

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

Survival of the fittest

The game of extinction.
Played so hard
So cruel.

The game of life and death
Played so immaculate
So careless.

The race is so inescapable.
The result so unchangeable.

Endlessly played
In an
Endless progression.

To the Silent Listener

Powerful you might be, but, you have disappointed me with the amount of kindness you display. I think I do a better job than you. What a shame, isn't it? Or may be not. In the name of infinity one can override mathematical truths -- And once you are out of mathematics, you can tout, almost anything.

Do not persist

I have never understood
.....why.....
things

-do not persist-

Existence

I love this quote

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. - Eric Hoffer

QQ

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

It's Lunch Time! Or may be not.

There is no free lunch. As a matter of fact, sometimes there is no lunch at all.

Never

Empty

In vast, for long
So hard
So eagerly
In vein

So many times
Only in vein

In vein
In vein
In vein

Found
Empty

Professionalism

If taken positively, I havn't faced a situation in life where professionalism has not been helpful -- no matter how personal or informal the situation could have been.

An Experience

Differences are largely perceptual.

The Bottom

Deep beaneath, there is an echo. It may be God. Or someone.

Deeper than that, there is none. But the self.

Intelligence: My version

Intelligence is the ability to recognize pattern and utilize it to achieve goals.

Main.c

Ocean

Hope

Fears
Alone

Stormy Dangerous Unknown
Sufferings Delusions
Alone

Attractions Illusions
Realization
Deceptions Disguise Lies
Pain Sufferings
Alone

Sufferings
Alone

Sufferings
Alone

Realization
Alone
Alone
Alone

Hope

Once again

The highway of honesty does not connect all the cities. And as powerful as Truth might be, it alone is not enough fuel to take you there. There are less than honest paths that have to be travelled to find your destination. There are stuffs other than the truth, that will be needed as you go along.

"When I was young, I thought, I would conquer this world with truth" - O Boy, you can safely wake up from this dream - and now would be a very good time...

The certain void

Certainly the time will come
In silence, In absence
All ecstacy will calm down
Peaceful eternal silence
Will touch upon.

Rule of change never changes
The entanglement
never unfolds
Unknowable meaningless void
Never expresses

The time is so sure to come
Of Silence, Absence and of Abundance
Destiny, embraced.

All will end
All will return

Understanding a work in progress

In our quest for understanding how this world was made, we are on the verge of realizing that it has not been made yet; but still being made, actively. This universe is a work in progress.

True?

intelligence
ambition
genuine kindness and caring
witty sense of humor
sense of style
confidence
good looks

Simple, powerful truths

The more dependent you are, the weaker you become. This world is not for the weaks. Dependencies can actually eliminate you.

Are you there?

Really..

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The Wonderful Lies

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. - Clare Booth Luce