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Why Do I Feel Stuck in Life? A Clear-Eyed Answer
Three kinds of stuck, what the mind does inside each, and a simple Stoic practice to start moving again.
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The Stories We Finish Too Soon
We finish another person’s stories because we are certain we know where it is going. On listening, certainty, and the rare generosity of saying “tell me more.”
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Convenience and Conscience
A personal reflection on AI, modern comforts and the quiet costs we rarely see, and what it means to live with the questions.
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Deeper Than Differences
A childhood of many beliefs, a home of many perspectives, and a quiet lesson in what truly holds us together.
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THE MYSTIC & THE SEEKER
THE MYSTIC AND THE SEEKER “I stand at the threshold, looking in both directions.” Having spent enough years in the world to understand something of its promises and disappointments, I can claim to have watched and chased the pursuit of pleasure, achievement, identity, and meaning in countless forms. Yet nothing seemed capable of providing…
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Questions We Keep: He Who Never Mastered Himself
Why is Ravana burned in effigy in India yet remembered with grandeur in Southeast Asia? On greatness, moral failure and what epics teach us about judgment.
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Rama, Krishna and Two Worlds of Dharma
Why does India revere both Rama and Krishna when they seem to answer dharma so differently? A conversation on two epics and the worlds they speak to.
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Why Did Ravana Have Ten Heads? The Fall of Ravana
Why did Ravana have ten heads, and why did so brilliant a king fall? A conversation on intelligence, pride and restraint in the Ramayana.
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Prithvi: The Earth Element
Prithvi, the principle of form, stability and embodiment. Why the Earth element is linked with smell, and what it teaches about rootedness in a hurried life.
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Akasha: Space, Ether
Akasha, the subtlest of the five elements: the space that holds everything. On Akasha and sound, the Vishuddha Chakra, Ayurveda, and why the mind needs space.