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- Life Lessons from a Man who has seen 12000 Deaths
Bhairav Nath Shukla is the Manager of Mukti Bhawan, a Varanasi hostel where people check-in to die. He shares key life lessons he has learnt …
- Why Read Philosophy?
There is a pleasure in philosophy, and even a lure in the mirages of metaphysics which every student feels until the coarse necessities of …
- Do this. Directives - Part 1 by Derek Sivers
I’ve recently completed reading Derek Siver’s book - Anything You Want (1 hour read, Goodreads link here), reflecting lessons …
- Independence of Solitude
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve …
- Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands
*I may be numberless, I may be innocent I may know many things, I may be ignorant Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands Or win …
- You Start Dying Slowly
You start dying slowly if you do not travel, if you do not read, If you do not listen to the sounds of life, If you do not appreciate …
- Meaning of Life
Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence …
- Transience
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone–those that are now and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the ‘what’ is …