Makeup & Breakup

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir We are living in fast paced world which is on the move.  Life is on a treadmill. No time to stop and think. We are all so busy that we don’t have time for our own self. The work is deeply seeped into our personal space. We have no time to pause and ponder. Speed has become the essence of today’s living. We are on the run.…

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius Perspective is everything life. Perception is what helps us developing that perspective. We do so in the context of reality of life. We are living in a world of reality. The world is a composition of many things. There is this multifaceted nature of nature. The nature is what we…

We have been talking of the impact of technology in our everyday life. The usage has been on a rapid rise. By the time we are catching with one technology, the other is knocking our door. It is difficult to catch hold of these technologies. There is no option to skip or way out from technologies. We have to keep trying and competing with the speed of technologies to stay ahead of the learning…

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. — Soren Kierkegaard How to walk our life into living a good life? It is a question in top of everyone’s mind? Who doesn’t want to lead a good life? Everyone does but how remains the million dollar question. Attempts are being made from everybody from scientific…

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. — Maya Angelou We get worked out. We feel dejected. We get disturbed. There are so many times that we are off our mindfulness. How to switch on our mind to being mindful of things and not get mired in muddled thoughts. Our actions are products of our thoughts. Good thoughts good actions. Bad thoughts lead to bad actions. Hence,…

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer Life is a game that gets measured in bouts of success and failures. Success gets so much limelight that darkness of failures are looked down upon, we forget that failures are stepping stones to success. Failures bring misery to our life and we feel…

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein Life is game of problems and we have to play it. We have to keep learning how to play such a game and learning is a lifelong exercise. We may moderate it down or accelerate it up as needed but we simply cannot stop it and put a full stop to our learning. There is no route to escape, if we try and…

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson All about the way our mind operates. The recognition of mental operation is cognition. It is the map of functioning of our mind. We have to receive something to process it. The process of reception is termed as perception. There is an intriguing interplay between the parts of…

The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach Life is complex. Living is a complicated affair if we don’t plan, organize and control on things that we do. We cannot leave life to get self-organized. But we have to plan and we have to programme it. We need to acquire the requisite skill set and build on the abilities to be able to do it. There are limitations to things that we do and…

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. – Soren Kierkegaard Life is energy. Energy is the ability to do work. There are different forces at work in managing these energies of life. Force is an action that changes the state of being or the motion of the state. What about human beings? Life embodies change. Without change we don’t grow and without growth life is…

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Pablo Picasso There are questions and there are more questions in life. We will never find a time in life where we have no questions. Questions are at the bedrock of our evolution. We evolve as we keep finding answers to such questions. The questions keep coming from multiple corners. There is every chance that…

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action. – Peter Senge Mental models are the ways of understanding the world around us. We have to make sense of things happening. Some are simple to understand but many are complex to comprehend. Hence, we need to visualize and picturized. We do…

What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out. – Michael Hyatt There are four keywords in the title (reflection, jounaling, philosophy, practice). We have words and we have key words, the words that unlock hidden treasure of knowledge. How to locate those key words? We have set mechanisms to do so in the digital world which is intrinsically…

The world is a complicated place, and there’s a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. – David Rubenstein Before we could dwell on the important aspects of two different forms of art, it is essential to know; what is art. According to Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest writers of all time, art is a way to communicate emotion with an…

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues – probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, and the sanctity of domestic life – even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. – Robert Gottlieb Literature periods are not merely happening in isolation but concurrently with many other…

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole. – Isaac Asimov Art and science are polar opposite in characteristics. Apparently so, one is objective in nature and the other is subjective in nature. Artists and scientists don’t talk to each other as they have different business set to handle. One is obsessed with data and hard facts…

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. – Isaac Asimov What role knowledge of scientific thoughts can play in understanding and appreciating literature? At the outset answer is nothing as science is fact and literature is fiction. A predominate view that is prevalent and we are largely preview to that form of…