MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

Today is not yet started. It is still dark and silent. Kitchens are not filled with housewives. Birds are still sleeping in nests. The sun is barely visible in the sky. It amazes me when I know only me and frogs are just up for an early start. Perhaps frogs never slept because they had a wedding last night. So, while this background chatter is going on I was contemplating about yesterday. Yesterday. Was typically ordinary. Kids started early in the day. We skipped swimming cl

Productivity is not what you think. Productivity is not when you work hard to produce lot of things valued by your boss. Productivity doesn't mean writing more articles, if you're a writer, or doing more paintings if you are an artist. It doesn't mean finding solutions to difficult math problem if you're a mathematician. All these things make sense in a real world to earn credit, recognition and many other things and they do push you towards positive outcomes and brief happin

Michel de Montaigne Philosophy. This famous philosopher from renaissance period from France is the one who popularized applying philosophy to live an ordinary life during his era (of course apart from Thales of Meletus). What use of philosophy is if it is not used to make lives better? Not just highly successful ones, but quite ordinary ones. If philosophers who entangle in intellectual disputes about origins of human existence just quarrel with their wives the moment they st

Disclaimer : This article discusses, death, 9/11, unnatural death Why language comes before science? Really? Do I have to reason this out? What did you do before all the math and Ven diagrams and valuations? Did you not start babbling words back and forth with your mom still being unable to stand up in your two feet? But, halfway through high school everyone forgets, that language comes before science, as all the aspiring careers are opened up only for students of science and

There is no coming to consciousness without pain." — Carl Jung "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." — Ecclesiastes "Consciousness is... the dagger in the flesh." — Emil Cioran "It is great pain... that makes us more profound." — Friedrich Nietzsche Pain of awareness Did you know? If you do not know, the awareness has a price. As a blog, here I promote mindfulness as means to discovering solutions for our life problems. The aw