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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.

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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

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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.