Skip to content

Know Thyself

  • Home

Philosophy . Political Philosophy. Poetry . Psychology . Perspectives (on 10,000 things)

The Eye of the Storm


Silence is not shutting of the mouth Or the drying of the ink in the pen Or the fingers idling…

Being still, Keeping quiet, Poem, Poetry, Silence

Amma, I Miss You


I wish I could sit by my mother Once again like ol’ times While she strokes my hair And I…

Mother, Poem, Poem on Mother, Poetry

Seeking Truth Through Silence


O Sam, surely by all your readingYou have discovered and realizedThat there is wisdom and TruthThat words cannot captureAnd what…

Be still, Being still, Poem, Poetry, Silence, Summa iru, Truth

Random Musings


“I’m trying not to be reborn. So, what’s so happy about a birthday?”–some dude “A little money, a little pleasure,…

Birthday, God, Life, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Relationships

No Big Deal


“The more I live life the less appealing it seems to me.”–a guy called DSR

Life, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes

What India Needs


“What India needs is not Secularism but Multiculturalism, which it already has to a large extent; we just need to…

India, Multiculturalism, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Secularism

The 5 best books on Multiculturalism


recommended by Prof. Tariq Modood “I think that one of the key differences between multiculturalism and liberalism is that liberalism…

Best books on multiculturalism, Multiculturalism

Prof. Tariq Modood on Multiculturalism and Secularism


The second shift for me is that prior to the importance of religion was the importance of identity. This goes…

Cosmoplitanism, Interculturalism, Multiculturalism, Secularism, Transnationalism

Islam and Multiculturalism


The modern state has been characterized by Bikhu Parekh as “a historically unique mode of defining and relating its members”,…

Assimilation, Ghettoization, Integration, Liberalism, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

Secularism and Multiculturalism by Charles Taylor


In other words, a modern democratic state demands a people with a strong collective identity. Democracy obliges us to show…

Multiculturalism, Secularism

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
Follow Know Thyself on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 360 other subscribers

Archives

Categories

  • Acceptance (14)
  • Advaita (see Nonduality) (173)
  • AI (Artificial Intelligence) (7)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) (8)
  • Bhagavad Gita (35)
  • Bible (16)
  • Buddhism (30)
  • Consciousness (Awareness) (146)
  • Enlightenment (141)
  • Free Will (35)
  • God (117)
  • Hinduism (177)
  • Ignorance (Maya, Avidya) (95)
  • India (19)
  • Indian Philosophy (167)
  • J. Krishnamurti (38)
  • Karma / Destiny (59)
  • Meditation (82)
  • Mind (100)
  • My Books (12)
  • My Poems (314)
  • My Quotes (517)
  • Nisargadatta Maharaj (42)
  • Nonduality (Advaita) (154)
  • Osho (18)
  • Philosophy for Everyday Life (620)
  • Poetry (37)
  • Political Philosophy (153)
  • Psychology (391)
  • Quotes (21)
  • Quran (Koran) (24)
  • Ramakrishna Paramahansa (21)
  • Ramana Maharshi (84)
  • Sankaracharya (12)
  • Self (Brahman) (132)
  • Self-enquiry (61)
  • Self-realization / Liberation (143)
  • Silence (25)
  • Surrender (23)
  • Swami Sarvapriyananda (36)
  • Thoughts / Thinking (57)
  • Uncategorized (60)
  • Upanishads (76)
  • Vedas (28)
  • Western Philosophy (74)

Blog Stats

  • 153,876 hits
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Know Thyself
    • Join 360 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Know Thyself
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...