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How I Overcame Anxiety and Depression – And You Can Too!


I know you cannot wait for me to reveal the secrets of overcoming anxiety and depression. I will not keep…

Acceptance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Anxiety, Depression, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Radical acceptance

My Path to the Truth


I try to live my life with the following understanding forming the backdrop from which I do whatever I do:

Advaita Vedanta, Consciousness, Consciousness (Awareness), Ego, Ignorance, Sense of Doership, Truth

Who Listens? Who Understands?


Writers and artists come and goTalking of love, peace and justiceThe world carries on unmindfullyLost in its own obsessive concernsHardly…

Art, Artists, Poem, Poetry, Writers, Writing

The Question of the ‘Brahmin’ and the ‘Dalit’


“As Fanon put it half a century ago: ‘I am not a potentiality of something; I am fully what I…

Anshul Kumar, Brahmins, Caste System in India, Casteism, Dalits, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, JNU, Love, Poem, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, WEB Dubois

Saying ‘No’ to Meditation


Truth is not hidden awayIn the meditative silence;It shines forth in the sunlightAs it does in the moonlit night;No difference…

Meditation, Poem, Poetry, Truth

Retreating Into Solitude & Silence


I’ve had enough of this worldSeeking what shall I be busyNothing seems of much interestNeither friendships nor romanceNeither conversations in…

Poem, Poetry, Solitude

10 Reasons Why We’re Unhappy


by Arthur Brooks of Harvardas posted by Codie Sanchez on X (nee Twitter) – @Codie_Sanchez The macronutrients of happiness are…

Happiness, How to be happy, Unhappiness, Why we are unhappy

4 Sayings of Mine


“Love is a universal language.” “Listen to what silence is saying and not to what the mind is saying.” “That…

Destiny, Fate, Love, Quotations, Quotes, World

A Prayer


Where the mind is without desire Into that heaven of salvation O my Lord Let me awake.

Desire, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Salvation

A Long-Standing Subscription


The world keeps you hooked; When are you going to cancel Your subscription to this OTT; You’re allowed to be…

Poem, Poetry, Subscription to the world, World, World as OTT

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