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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

A Trip to Nainital


I see the lake, vast in expanse, The sun reflecting off its surface The trees giving it a green hue…

Nainital, Poem, Poetry, Travel

Ramana Maharshi on Prayer


Ramana Maharshi said: They pray to God and finish with “Thy Will bedone!” If His Will be done why do…

Prayer, Ramana Maharshi on Prayer

A Different Perspective on Happiness


by Hugh Mackay in his book “The Good Life” I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that—I don’t…

Fulfillment, Happiness, Pursuit of happiness, Wholeness

J. Krishnamurti on War and Its Causes


Excerpt from The First and Last Freedom What causes war—religious, political, or economic? Obviously, belief, either in nationalism, in an ideology,…

Causes of War, Ending War, J. Krishnamurti on War, Peace, Psychological Revolution, War

Purposeful Universe: Beyond Theism & Atheism


by Philip Goff, professor in philosophy at Durham University, UK Neither atheism nor theism adequately explains reality. That is why…

Anthropic Principle, Atheism, Cosmological Constant, Fine Tuning of the Universe, God, Life, Problem of Evil, Purposeful Universe, Theism

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