Comparison between two types of tendencies from Nietzsche’s book. — The Flies in the marketplace is my favorite chapter from Thus Spake Zarathustra. While primarily a critique of Christianity, I find it relevant beyond that, as it can be applied to look into any prevalent structures and values. When Nietzsche writes things like this: Where solitude ends, there begins the…

Our care for the world is dependent on what we want from it! — What a strong assertion! How dare I say that YOU— the one sitting and reading this — don’t care about the world when you have woken up every single day, motivating yourself by telling yourself that you will make a difference in the world someday. You respond: ‘Yeah, it might…

There isn’t much time with us to sit and gaze helplessly. Detach those ropes, throw all your shackles, and run where you want to run — there’s no law that asks you to pile where others have already defecated! No, not self-belief…you will now grow self-certainty in you. No, not…

The question now is if we can realize and sustain this freedom. — As I was reading a biology book published 162 years ago, in the comforts of my home, without having to hurry for a job to go to, planning my own analysis of the book’s ideas — I wondered if I could have been able to the do the same if…

The next time you are in a crisis, ask why your president should exist. — As I stared at an idly sitting snail in the garden, I — a human — asked myself what value this slow little creature might have. Why do such insignificant looking creatures even exist? I then tried to find an evolutionary cause for its existence and also a possible ecosystem…

There’s much more to tea than meets the tongue! — Background A few months ago, during one of the periods of intense anxiety, I had a feeling that I have had enough — I had to do something completely different about this anguish. By then, I had tried adapting all sorts of new things into my life: Reading, Writing, Music, Movies…

What may we need if we have interests in diverse things and we want to balance them all? — An organization I was involved with once invited a multidisciplinary person from India for a talk program. After the event, while we sat for dinner, a young school student came to our table with full confidence and sat there. A few minutes later he asked the multidisciplinary person: ‘Sir, is…

Until you get used to the light! — There’s an old saying which goes something like this: ‘Staying at the top is more difficult than reaching there.’ Of course, I wouldn’t know how true this is in social sense as I have never reached to the top of any kind of social mountain whatsoever. But what I can…

Envisioning = more about will than originality. — I don’t know how it goes with entities such as stars and rocks and rivers but with those of us living with cell (s): we are always forced to make decisions. An ant crawls on my table and I for my own leisure block its path with my finger. Now…