Reflections, Thoughts, and Deliberations | Page 4

Love and Truth – It Takes Two to Tango
Love says “I am everything.” Wisdom says “I am nothing.” Between the two, my life flows. — Nisargadatta Maharaj — I sought truth, [ ... ]

Crystal Clear Clarity – Seeing What Is
When we look through a dirty window, we obviously don’t see clearly. No need to say that we must first get rid of the stains and filth to be able to [ ... ]

Losing People and Places
We all lose people during our lifetimes. Some just die on us, others move to another place (or we do), and sometimes we have disagreements or fights m [ ... ]

About Trust, Betrayal, and Love
To trust is hard when one is betrayed in one’s trust, over and over again — by so many people. It’s even harder when the person you’ve tru [ ... ]

Living with Regrets
I’m sure we’ve all regretted certain things we’ve done in our lives. Or not done, for that matter. Ideally, regret teaches us not to make th [ ... ]

Understanding Emotional Pains, Suffering, and Love
When we experience emotional or psychological pains and suffering, most of the time we will try to make them stop, try to neglect it, or just run away [ ... ]

Meaning and Purpose are Meaningless and Purposeless
People are meaning-givers. Our work, our actions, our leisure-time, our religion, our culture and traditions, our worries and our victories — th [ ... ]

Face, Real, and Fake Friends
Facebook has this interesting quality of being quite an accurate metaphor of real-world relationships. On “befriending” people on Facebook we find [ ... ]

Do We Always Need to Be Honest?
Do we always need to be honest? You know, this is something we learn from our parents, in school, from society, and so on. Typically, honesty is highl [ ... ]

What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Is it give and take? Or only give, and sometimes take? Or never take what isn’t mine? Is it you and me, or is it us? Is it friendship, or is it only [ ... ]