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“Can the pot EVER do anything OTHER THAN what the clay is doing?” “The only sign that you are progressing…

Enemy, Love, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Romantic love, Spiritual progress, Spirituality

The Spiritual Quest & the Existential Angst — Philosophy Vs. Psychology


In response to my poem “The Sun is Always in the Sky” (https://selfrealization.blog/2026/02/15/the-sun-is-always-in-the-sky/), my clinical psychologist friend replied, “Next stop…

Consciousness, Existential Angst, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Life, Meaning of life, Nididhyasana, Philosophy, Psychology, Purpose of life, Religion, SManana, Spiritual Quest, Spirituality, Suresvaracharya, Writing

The Sun is Always in the Sky


Without any Faustian bargain I have sought and found knowledge You could even say I have sought and found wisdom…

Existential Angst, Life, Poem, Poetry

Violence and Its Antidotes – by Stanford University Professor and Evolutionary Biologist Robert Sapolsky


Six (6) 1-hour Videos on Violence and Its Antidotes

Preventing Violence, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, Violence

Psychopathology and Social Psychology – by MIT Open Courseware


Psychopathology and Social Psychology – Four (4) 1-hour Videos – by MIT Open Courseware Psychopathology I: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/resources/lecture-20-psychopathology-i/ Psychopathology II: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/resources/lecture-21-psychopathology-ii/…

MIT Lectures, Psychopathology, Social Psychology

The Truth about Caste System in India


ChatGPT, is there a correct and authentic historical record on whether Brahmins had exclusive monopoly on education? What kind of…

Caste, Caste System in India, Hinduism, history, India, Jati, Religion, Spirituality, Varna

To Marry Or Not To Marry


“I think if children and child-rearing was not part of the equation when it came to marriage, then most people…

Children, Marriage, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quotes

Our Majboori


“Having been born, our majboori is that we have to live.”

Choice, Constraint, Destiny, Fate, Life, Quotations, Quotes

Do We “Need” Love?


“One does not need love from others because one’s own nature is love, which nature paradoxically is covered up by…

Love, our nature, Quotations, Quotes, True love, Unconditional Love

No Regrets


Ah, I understand life Understand it well Understand it at last; It matters not My life is almost over, For…

Contentment, Enlightenment, Goal, Happiness, Life, Meaning of life, Past, Poem, Poetry, Regrets, Satisfaction

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