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The Mental Health Struggles of Single and Divorced Men


Interestingly, a large corpus of research indicates that single men have higher rates of mental health issues compared to married…

Divorced Men, Marriage, Single Men

Five Reasons Why Morality is Distracting and Harmful


[My comment: That’s why Dharma is a better concept than morality since it takes into account the context in which…

Categorical imperative, Ethics, Kantian ethics, Moral philosophy, Morality

Unconditional Love


Unconditional love is an illusion. Sacrifices and gifts are the reality. Once couples are able to give up the illusion…

Love, True love, Unconditional Love

Authentic Living


The more I study people who are single at heart, the more I think that at the core of their…

Authentic living, Authenticity, Bachelors, Spinsters

Mental Illness


In contrast to ailments like a fractured leg or a badly pumping heart, he notes, psychiatric problems can’t be directly…

Mental illness, Psychiatric problems, Psychiatry

Relationships


“In a relationship, be it friendship or conjugal, often it is difficult to trace out whose fault it is for…

Friendship, Live-in relationship, Marriage, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Relationships

Religious Texts and Religious People


“I do not love Quran and Bible, but I love Muslims and Christians.”–Me

Bible, Muslims, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Quran

How Little Faith in God


If we are silent And do not think We wonder How will the world run? So thinking, Many are busy.…

God, Poem, Poetry, Thinking

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

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