Afraid of Success

What’s the worst thing that can happen? Travel and end up in North Korean Jail? Limited water, limited food, limited life and plain struggle? But I’m not afraid of that. I’m afraid of instant success, luck and gratification. What if I’ll win a million dollar and everyone around will love me, give me everything I […]

Pain of Regret or Pain of Discipline?

When you first start out on a journey to accomplish something, the biggest success factor is to be persistence at it. Persistence is difficult. It’s easier to carry out your tasks in the initial stage because you are motivated. Persistence comes easy during that time. But when things start to get redundant, your motivation fades away, […]

Learning to Not Regret

We usually end up in situation where every possible path we can take leads to regret. Whatever you do, you’ll regret at the end just to realize if taking the other path would lead somewhere better. There are two things that can happen when you choose a road: Either you’ll regret, or you wont. And […]

Let Your Emotions Flow

I tried to stop feeling emotions which were regarded as weakness. When you part ways with someone you’ve been too close to, you feel sad. The natural inclination would be to cry. But since people generally look crying as a sign of weakness, we try to refrain from it as much as possible. By suppressing […]

Have you Found the OFF Button to Thinking?

I started reading ‘The Power of Now‘ by Eckhart Tolle yesterday. At one point he writes: Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn’t mean that you use your mind. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That’s why it […]

Lessons from Crying Guy

I was sitting alongside the street watching vehicles pass by when I saw a guy stop his bike. He stopped and stood there for sometime until a woman arrived (who he had probably been waiting for). As soon as she arrived, he started crying. He walked out of his bike and kept standing on the roadside crying. They talked […]

Until You Walk the Unbeaten Path, You’ll Never Know Where It Leads

You need to fall off to know why you shouldn’t fall off. You need to fall sick to know why you shouldn’t fall sick. You need to fall short on your goals to know why you shouldn’t fall short on your goals. You need to taste bitter to know what sweet tastes like. There must […]

Avoiding the Downfall Chain

I was about to not write anything today. I’m very sick. I can barely lift my hands and fingers to type this. My head hurts as hell. I had severe stomach pain last night and today I woke up tired and without energy. I should be taking rest. I have been writing everyday and I […]

Cannot Stop Thinking?

I have been meditating for a while just to make myself feel good that I’m meditating. I didn’t see any change in my thoughts and feelings. Today I thought of doing a 20 minute serious meditation. I kept alarm in exactly 20 minutes and started meditating. The main goal for me was to not think […]

Self Trust

To create or bend a situation in my favor, I used to lie to people most of the time. The situation would then favor me in the short run, but I’d have to suffer in the long run. If you lie once, you’ll need to remember the lie every time. Not only the lie, but […]