Sales and marketing people laughing all the way to the bank. Passion this. Passion that. Means something only when done with no expectation of reward or recognition.

#PassionAteFools

Another abused word in all dating profiles and what not. It’s not a badge of honor in an era of cheap flights and good exchange rates. People don’t even see their neighbours but will cross the seas to drink latte. Well with Covid, things might change for the better.

#TravelLattes

One of the most abused quotes ever. The bane of humanity in its quest for instant gratification. context matters! whatever you do, be present in it is what it means. But it has been gleefully applied to pleasure seeking and dopamine inducing behavior.

#Live the moment

The universe and everything in it veers towards entropy, a state of disorder. It’s a natural state except that as we do not understand it, hence fight against it.

#Entropy

You can only teach what you have learnt and experienced yourself. Even then it does not guarantee understanding, competence or utility.

#TeachingGuarantees

As naval says, it’s the birth right of every human being. It’s a portal for the seeker. Enuf said.

#RightToMeditation

Don’t need the body of a Greek God but is important since it helps to sharpen the mind. Man did not evolve to sit in one place unless he is in a different state altogether. It’s not an insurance against death but it’s not fun being a diseased leaf on a tree.

#GreekStatues&FigLeaves

Choose wisely what you read. Read to imbibe and practice. Agile it. As bruce says, absorb what is useful. Discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.

#WisdomOfReading

Extremely dangerous if not handled properly. Books are dangerous. Yes you read it right. Just as your body becomes what you feed it, so does your mind becomes what you read. Thoughts are dangerous especially others thoughts.

#DangerousBooks

Makes one look well learned and gain followers. But its as empty a vessel as one can be if there is no personal experience behind it. Everyone can quote from a book or tag or retweet a person of renown. But it counts for zilch.nada.

#QuotesExperience

A kid wonders at even the smallest things that we as adults consider irrelevant. As we grew, we have lost that wonder and awe. Man has come this far thanks to his curiosity and his wonder when he looked up at the stars.

#SkyFullOfStars

Curiosity killed the cat but you are not a cat. Apart from brash decisions and stupid actions, curiosity is one of the most natural gifts that man has.

#CuriosityRover

As scott adams says, goals are for losers. Build process and systems that are reliable, robust, redundant and most importantly flexible. As said in japanese, life is a series of artful rituals.

#SystemicRitual

Almost everything has exceptions. Just that exceptions don’t become the rule. The exceptions being generalized is the root cause of major and useless issues plaguing us these days.

#ExceptionalPlagues

Many are strong and will face external adversities but most of us will rot from within.
As Will Benteen says, ““But he had our failin’s too, ‘cause he could be licked from the inside. I mean to say that what the whole world couldn’t do, his own heart could.”

#Adversity&Strength

Not your dime a dozen yoga centres popping up in the neighbourhood. It’s part of the larger Hindu Dharmic framework and not standalone. Yoga is not stretching else gymnasts and contortionists would have reached that proverbial yoga pot of gold.

#Yoga

Answers are dime a dozen. Good questions are few. Good questions take years to be solved and they need to be asked consistently. It is not to question everything in life but to question oneself in relation to everything else.

#Answers&Questions

As someone said, you are what you focus your energy on. Limited resource or unlimited depending on what state one is in. But for almost all of us, it’s a gradual if not a steep decline as we age.
The brashness of youth forgets that and old age, regrets that.

#Energy

As someone said, time is not money. Time is more than money. I’ll say time is the only thing that matters. The costliest price one can pay and continues to pay is with time. Never getting that back.
“The greatest mistake is to think that one has time.”

#Time

Everything in life has a price, including love. Only question is are you willing to pay the price and to what lengths will you go for it.

#PriceOfLife

We all want to do and experience a lot of things. All in the chase of gratification. Agile your life in such a way that do what you want to do then do a retrospective and move on.

#AgileLife

Good experiences need to experienced by oneself. But the paradox is that life is short and one cannot experience all that is good, by oneself. As springsteen said, ” there are two tragedies in life. One is not to get what you want. Other is to get it.”

#ParadoxOfExperiences

There are good experiences and bad experiences. Good experiences, one has to experience it oneself. Bad experience, by looking and learning from others.

#Learning&Experiences

Water takes the shape of which it fills. It flows with grace or its crashes like a flood. The grand canyon is a example of water’s incredible power in grace. As bruce said, things will reveal themselves when you are like water.

#Flow&Water

This is a recent one but one of the most important one. As taleb says, you add to life by removing unwanted things from it.

#ViaNegativa