Reading.Guru is One Year Old Yippeeee! I started my blog in a moment of inspiration a year ago on 11 Aug 2019 and celebrated it’s first birthday last week. Thoughts on Last One Year Aim of the blog is to share My love of reading. What I’ve learned and enjoyed in my life so far. …
A postcard on the need to build for adaption. Build to Adapt A reader of ‘Read. Learn. Enjoy.‘ newsletter shared a beautiful article ‘The Bridge on the River Choluteca‘ by Prakash Iyer, author and motivational speaker, published in a recent edition of the Business World magazine. The key message is to build things (career, business, life) for adaption, …
Decades back, I read the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. Two ideas from the book stayed with me. The first idea is about the Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern. The second idea is below: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. …
Ripples Book Summary Unicity and the Duality of Noumenon and Phenomena Noumenon and phenomena, potential energy and activized energy, thought and action are essentially one in Unicity and are only known in phenomenality. The ocean remains the same whether or not there are waves on the surface. Energy when it wants to see itself in …
Freedom is not about being free of all responsibilities Freedom means being free to choose your responsibility. Freedom means being able to think for yourself. Freedom requires taking responsibility for your free self. No responsibility, no freedom. Free yourself from external authorities You are not free if you rely on external authorities (religions, leaders, bosses, wise men …
The Way of Chuang Tzu Book Summary TRANSLATOR’S NOTE TO THE READER St. Augustine once made a rather strong statement (which he later qualified), saying “That which is called the Christian religion existed among the ancients and never did not exist from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh.” This …
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