We all want to be listened. We all want to be understood. The relationship we have with everyone and everything affects our lives as well as others. Our connections happen within the space of gratitude or refusal to be with our pain. Nobody lives in isolation. We are constantly in relationship with things, people and …
Life is an ongoing exercise in overcoming our deepest fears. We all have fears, but they are basically imaginary fears. We create fears all the time, and by doing so we create our identities around them. The mind is constantly trying to label every experience and place it into a category. The thoughts we have …
I am lying down in a nondescript place. The space extends far away to all directions. It’s all white and I can’t move. All of a sudden, I see, right above me, a gargantuan object resembling a can being tilted as if about to pour its content all over me. The substance resembled, and felt like, …
Our relationship with the world is quite simply actualized through the concepts we form in our minds that enable us to speak about the reality we perceive. It is in this context that Plato’s allegory of the cave became one of the most famous philosophical metaphors in quotidian parlance. Our perception of reality is always …
First and foremost, this post carries a disclaimer that I’m not, by any means, in a position to be an authority on parenting. I do not have kids. But, as an only child, I was fortunate to have the beneficial distance and detachment that facilitated my own observations on family life, and the interactions therein. …
