The other’s failings enables the self’s victory. And the self imagines it is because of its strategy. A vacuum sucks the self in, but the self believes it is the force causing the movement…
Key points of Devdutt Pattanaik’s talk at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2015…
How similar people are around the world, in different times, in different places, for all their apparent differences…
To be a cult leader you need to have fans who believe everything you say, evidence notwithstanding, and are willing to attack, sometimes violently, those who criticise you or your ideas…
The greatest tragedy in the world is not to be able to see oneself…
Muhurat may end but it also eventually, inevitably, comes back…
A focused man does not let his mind waver with thought. A man of perspective is fully aware of the consequence of all his action. The former can make one a thoughtless actor. The latter can make one a paralyzed thinker…
It’s a pattern that is so repetitive that you realize it has become a trap – for both those who mock and those who celebrate philistinism…
Since there are infinite levels of wisdom, there are infinite ways of seeing the same thing…
Those who believe in discovery lean towards the linear mindset. Those who believe in re-discovery lean towards the cyclical mindset…