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I have read, lived and gathered experiences in this life. I pen down and offer timeless old school advice on etiquette, leadership, relationships, personal growth, resilience, health, work, finance, travel, kindness, passion, and life perspective. No one cares about you as much as you do; hence, read the lines below at least once. Etiquette and Manners Real manners start with awareness, not entitlement. Hugs and handshakes, give them like you mean it.​Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye. Respect personal space, listen with full attention, and let others finish before you respond. Listening is a superpower that builds trust, reveals hidden needs, and deepens every relationship. Build Solid Character Hold your heroes to a higher standard. Play games with passion and honesty or don’t play at all. Be confident and humble in your good or bad times.  Shame is a sign of an honorable man. Vulnerability is okay and isn't anyth...

Philosophy, the very word, means love for wisdom, and they have nothing to do with wisdom at all.Wisdom happens only through meditation; it never happens by collecting information. It happens by going through a transformation. Wisdom is the flowering of your consciousness, the opening of the one-thousand-petaled lotus of your being. It is the release of your fragrance, the release of the imprisoned splendor.Real philosophy has nothing to do with thinking; on the contrary it has everything to do with transcending thinking, going beyond and beyond thinking, going beyond mind, reaching to the pure space of no-mind. Out of that space something flowers in you. You can call it Christ-consciousness, Buddhahood, or whatsoever you like. That is true philosophy.

I'm reminded of the well-known satirical novel by Robert Escarpit – The Literatron. I haven't read the novel but just a summary of its review is reproduced from eurozine article. It explains in subtle about how populism works.... I'm reminded of the well-known satirical novel by Robert Escarpit – The Literatron. The Literatron is more or less a machine for creating texts similar to a computer. The idea of its creators was to generate the perfect novel based on the best images from world literature. In response to the highest of expectations, the machine produced a bestseller – Virgin and Typesetter! When the Literatron was asked to compose a political speech the outcome was even more scandalous. After processing the entire history of political rhetoric the machine spewed out a series of gaffs such as: "This politics thing the more it changes the more it stays the same... There are no two ways about it, the clever people are the most stupid of all... All you have to do ...

Agrippa's Trilemma :The trilemma is a breakdown of all possible proofs for a theory into three general types: * The circular argument, in which theory and proof support each other. * The regressive argument, in which each proof requires a further proof. * The axiomatic argument, which rests on accepted precepts. This Trilemma is just for giving you an idea about types of arguments and little bit of creating impression about me (:P). We came across several heated debates on the online community, forums and blogs about any topic. In a typical argument, each person tries to prove themselves right and the other person wrong. Instead of synthesis or refining of ideas, our focus shifts to stick to our owns idea as prime and supreme one. In the end, each person only ends up either more entrenched in their views or influenced by dominant juggling of words, regardless of who seems to deliver the most rational argument. Arguments are done for the sake of progress than victory. An argument ca...

Image is of Madman painted by Theodore Gericault . Now the preview of this writeup should be cleared to you. " Logic is deduction, not description. Understanding is secondary; the reasoning is the thing. In Logic and Mathematics, we do not understand things . . . we reason and deduce. " --- Quoted from the movie : The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser . This slightly amended dialogue from the movie set the mood of this post. I haven't seen the movie but read this punch line on pfc . Suddenly, I wanted to compile some hotch potch about wisdom, knowledge and information. Starting with poetry..... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T.S. Eliot And then progressing with a quote... Knowledge comes by taking things apart:analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.--John A. Morrison On reading about genius people on nimmy's blog , my heart propelled me to put my crazy i...