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How Does Poetry Help?


The useless poem-product unmasks our dependency on commodity goods, on the commodification of our lives and ourselves, and momentarily blunts…

Art, Poetry, Usefulness of Poetry, Utility of Poetry

To a Slower Life by Alan P. Lightman


Not long ago, I was sitting at my desk at home and suddenly had the horrifying realization that I no…

Being busy, Leisure, Life, Slower Life, Thoureau, Walden Pond

The Winds of Change


Driven by the wind of our dreamsWe drift apart from each other,We who come together sometimesDriven by the wind of…

Change, Destiny, Life, Poem, Poetry

The Power of Love


A little love, a little kindness, a little charityWould make this world a lot more livableIn the pursuit of our…

Love, Poem, Poetry

Does meditation make people more moral?


Zooming out, what the empirical research shows is that meditation – in its different forms – may have some positive…

Ethics, Meditation, Morality, Morals, Positive Effects of Meditation, Side Effects of Meditation

The Innumerable by Fernando Pessoa (from Poetic Outlaws)


The innumerable live in us;when I think or feel, I do not knowwho it is thinks or feels.I am merely…

Fernando Pessoa, Poem, Poetic Outlaws, Poetry, The Innumerable

My Latest Book “Yet More Half-Truths” is Now Available on Amazon


It is a book of my thoughts and opinions expressed on diverse topics, such as love, sex, God, Truth, world,…

My book, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quotes

How to Enjoy Your Work


Enter only such field of study Or only such profession Or only such job or line of work If intrinsically…

Calling, Metier, Poem, Poetry, Work

On Board the 9:45 pm IndiGo Flight from Hyderabad to Delhi


Up above in the clouds Somewhere in the sky over India I hang by a slender thread To I, me,…

Death, Ego, Flying, Mortality, Poem, Poetry

My Friend Rashmi Chatterjee


Lover of trees, birds, forests, and hills Abhorring the cities wrought by civilization She is a child of nature, without…

Friend, Poem, Poetry, Rashmi Chatterjee

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