Part of your wisdom portfolio I am 55 years old and find there are days when I feel flat, listless, or low on mental energy. I have no health issues or deficiencies, nor am I obese, depressed, a smoker, or a drinker. I’ve noticed my mood invariably lifts if I do certain things. I am […]
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Part of your wisdom portfolio A poem in pentameter. Read it aloud! The Things We Do to Be Remembered The urge to not just disappear in time,Makes men and women do much that’s sublime.Yet we know every outcome isn’t fine,And just as many things end in a crime. We struggle to the poles and wheeze
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They are distressing and sapping it Our species is improving but still has an incredible ability to allow, tolerate, and self-inflict disease. We know we can do something about these issues, in theory. Yet we don’t, or can’t. But this story is not about the origins and fixes of these problems*. It is a list
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Part of your wisdom portfolio One of my bugbears is people making totally confident declarations. Whether they are right or wrong is not the problem. What dismays me is sensing a complete absence of doubt, for I believe the essence of civilisation is the admittance of possibilities, and being unsure is its natural outcome. When
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Rainbows, ridges, squiggles, abstract art, and more Do you ever close one eye and look with the other closely near itself? I do this once in a while when one of my eyes is tired, or just like that. Here are the things I spy from my eye nearby. Nose profile My skin-coloured nose ridge is
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A reverie I have this waking dream of living in a single, sparingly furnished room on the upper floor of a two-storey building in some small town in India. There’s a bed along the right-hand wall, a modest wooden writing desk and chair by the window, and a cupboard on the left (it is, in
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Meditations on meditation A successful and happy life is about saying yes to good things and no to bad things. Evolution has designed us to be largely successful as normal life forms in our usual ecosystem. Our problems arise primarily due to deviations from healthy behaviour. We have several innate imperfections and a tendency to
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Part of your wisdom portfolio Speech is a distinguishing feature of our species and an integral part of our intelligence. Its importance is evident from the pride of place it’s given in religious scriptures. The extract above from the Mandukya Upanishad of Hinduism, written somewhere between the fifth century BCE and the second century CE,
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Dismissals by my mortality I am neither fatalist nor nihilist. I am not even stoic. I believe in enjoying life. But I lay store by perspective and detachment, which makes me often get the thought patterns below. Or perhaps it’s my age and seeing two parents and one parent-in-law pass away in succession. Whatever the
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It’s emotional wisdom My mom was in a hospital for just under two weeks before she passed away six years ago. Those few days were not easy, with multiple trips every day to visit her, rush for medicines, discuss treatments with specialists and my dad, and everything else that this stage involves. One day I
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