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At which stages in your life did you start questioning your own self?
At which stages in your life did you start questioning your own self? Depends upon how you are asking this question. Are you talking about questioning yourself negatively, as someone who is failing in some… Read More
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What is the best way to get self feedback?
What is the best way to get self-feedback? Your relationships are the best way to get self feedback. By relationships I mean, relationship to your work, to things, to people and to ideas. Your relationships… Read More
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How do I keep my intellectual growth constant?
How do I keep my intellectual growth constant? We stop growing in our learning because our brain loses energy. The modern life is very complex and demanding. We have no time for leisure, and without… Read More
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What makes you think you have it all figured out?
What makes you think that you have it all figured out? This is an interesting question. Let’s look at the question itself. Let’s try to “figure out” the question itself. The biggest thing that needs… Read More
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How exactly do you avoid fooling yourself?
How exactly do you avoid fooling yourself? Fooling oneself happens whenever we follow anyone. This anyone could be your parents, your teachers, your friends, a political system, a nation or a religion. Because whenever you… Read More
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A Dialogue on Love
What is love? Can love be defined as “it is this”? Can there be love when there is hurt, possessiveness, anger, jealousy, competition etc? A look at some of these questions in a dialogue Read More
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Self inquiry: Have you questioned Death?
Self inquiry has its root in solving the riddle of death. Though most of us live in denial of this fact, it has the secret to the truth. No wonder this was a question which… Read More
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The “Disturbing” Teachers on my Path of self inquiry – Part 1 (The Rationalist, Mathematician and Reader)
An article describing how my father was my first teacher who laid an impregnable foundation for self inquiry in me through his emphasis on rationalism, logical thinking and love for reading. Read More
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If or When my Text Disturbs You? self inquiry
This was a breakthrough article for me. It starts out with where I left in my previous article, “The Play of Identities between the Reader and Writer : Rise of self knowledge. In exploring my… Read More
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The Play of Identities between the Reader and Writer: and the Rise of Self Knowledge
This article explores how a very subtle, complex and unconscious relationship comes into action between a reader and writer, in a seemingly simple act of reading. It further explores how being aware of this relationship… Read More
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