Claude, comment on this saying of mine: “The shadow of Truth falls on everything and everyone I love in my … More
Tag: Writing
Claude Comments on “This Forever Love In Me”
Claude, comment on this blog post of mine https://selfrealization.blog/2026/07/10/this-forever-love-in-me/ Claude: There’s a lovely compactness to this, Sam, but also a … More
Uniworse
Uniworse. Claude, comment. Claude: Calibrated wit with philosophical depth for playful engagement “Uniworse” — the universe as experienced on a … More
Google AI Holds Forth On My Poem
Your poem, “The Courage To Be Myself” (https://selfrealization.blog/2026/07/07/the-courage-to-be-myself/), is a powerful, deeply introspective, and refreshingly modern take on radical acceptance … More
Quit
“Life is not a battle worth fighting. Quit.” The word is a deliberate stumbling block. What is to be given up is not the body or the life, but the fighter — the ego whose founding myth is that life is a war to be won. Camus answered the question of life’s worth with revolt; Advaita takes the path he never considered: neither suicide nor defiance, but the dissolution of the one who asks. Quit the way a fist quits clenching. The battle is optional because the soldier is fictional. What remains is life itself — neither fought nor fled.
Love as the Effect, Not Cause, of Self-knowledge
I had written a few months back thus: “Intellectually, I am a sage. Emotionally, I am just a teenager.” When … More
“What are we here on earth for?”
Much as I love her, yes I do, Much as she does not love me Though she cares for me, … More
Don’t Worry About the Future — It is Already Fixed
Here is the email I wrote to my younger sister Kavitha just now, who is travelling with her family in … More
No Happiness Outside
Here I am sitting alone At past 1 am, mulling on What never was the case One which I thought … More
I Can Neither Laugh Nor Cry
A friend wrote: A cicada may spend seventeen years beneath the earth, only to emerge for a single month beneath … More