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On Friendship


“YOU ARE like a lone island in the middle of the blue deep sea. The dawn breaks; the dusk falls.…

Friendship, Loneliness, Love

What is Political Philosophy? From Plato to Strauss


“All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve we wish to prevent a change to…

Political Action, Political Philosophy, Strauss, The Good, The Good Life

Living the Dream Life


I realize this life, this world is a dream. I realize I am not the doer but God is the…

Dream Life, Maslow, Meaning of life, Purpose of life, Self-actualization, Svadharma, World

Truth


“The tongue is too dumb to tell the truth one understands. Words are not it. One’s silence too cannot convey…

Absolute truth, Quotations, Quotes, Truth

Religiosity


“Until you knock the Hindu out of the Hindu, the Muslim out of the Muslim, the Christian out of the…

Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Christianity, Christians, Hinduism, Hindus, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Muslims, Parsis, Quotations, Quotes, Quran, Religion, Talmud, Truth, Zorastrians

The Uncertainty of Life


Yes, you can fall in love. Yes, you can earn tons of money. Yes, you can buy all the luxuries…

Desire, Goal of life, Happiness, Life, Meaning of life, Philosophy, Purpose of life, Satsifaction

Four Poems


Half-Hearted LivingTime rolls on, unmindfully,While I engage with my dilemmasOn what I should doOr not do, in this world,A world…

Advaita, Philosophy, Poem, Poetry, Ten Commandments

28 Sayings of Mine


Paraphrasing Socrates, “Is it right because the Vedas approve it, or the Vedas approve it because it is right.” “Sartre’s…

Bible, faith, God, Jesus, Life, Love, Meditation, Name-and-form, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Truth

Damn the Dusshera


We are too mechanical, too unthinking, doing things because that is how things are supposed to be done, because that…

Dasara, Durga Puja, Dussehra, Festivals of India, Life, Truth

My Beloved, My Friend! (मिरे हमदम मिरे दोस्त) by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Original with English translation)


Original below the English Translation:My Beloved, My Friend!Faiz Ahmed FaizIf only I could be certain, my beloved, my friend,If only…

मिरे हमदम मिरे दोस्त!, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Friendship, Poem, Poetry

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