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
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On quotes and experiences
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On stars and wonder
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.
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On cats and curiosity
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.
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On rituals and systems
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.
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On exceptions and plagues
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.
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On adversity and strength
Many are strong and will face external adversities but most of us will rot from within.
#Adversity&Strength
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.” -
On pots of gold and yoga
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.
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On answers and questions
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.
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On energy and time
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.
#Energy
The brashness of youth forgets that and old age, regrets that. -
On mistakes and time
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.
#Time
“The greatest mistake is to think that one has time.”