Strike a match above a sheet of paper and time becomes visible. Before the flame touches the page, one movement of the hand can prevent the damage. Once the corner catches, another kind of action becomes possible. Smother the flame. Tear away the burning edge. Save what remains. But after…
Category: Philosophy & Spirituality
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Philosophy & Spirituality 
None Arrives Carrying Proof
On the floor beside the desk lies a small graveyard of sentences. Some are beautiful. A few are clever. One carries an image that would have pleased almost anyone who encountered it. Yet they have all been crossed out. The page above them is quieter now. Less decorated. More alive….
Memoir & Life 
For Those Who Stayed Close
There are friends who belong to ordinary seasons. They come with laughter, with ease, with dinners, with bright plans made under a harmless sky. They are good gifts, and the heart should not despise them. Life needs the joy of simple companionship, the unguarded hour, the joke repeated until everyone…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Tea at the Edge of Forever
A poem about the sacred emptiness that lets love, grace, and presence enter. Tea at the Edge of Forever We poured the silence first; the tea came later. Steam rose like a soft staircase, and we climbed it without moving. The table became a small earth. Our cups, four moons….
Memoir & Life 
The Strange Mercy of Growing Older: When the Body Declines but the Soul Expands
There is a strange mercy hidden inside the years. We are taught to fear aging as if it were only a slow subtraction. The body begins to spend what youth once scattered freely. The knees no longer rise with the same obedience. Sleep becomes lighter. Names arrive late, like hesitant…
Memoir & Life 
The Company We Keep Becomes the Life We Live
There are few mirrors as honest as friendship. Not the mirror of glass, which gives back only the surface. Not the mirror of reputation, which trembles with gossip and misunderstanding. Not even the mirror of our own thoughts, which can flatter, excuse, condemn, or deceive us depending on the hour….
Philosophy & Spirituality 
The Evil That Does Not Need You to Become Evil
There is an evil more frightening than wickedness. Wickedness at least has a face. It has a knife, a lie, a hunger, a mouth that speaks destruction. Wickedness can be named. It can be resisted. It stands somewhere in the world and says, Here I am. Hate me. Fight me….
Philosophy & Spirituality 
The Difference Between an Insult and a Public Self-Own
There is a great difference between an insult and a performance of intelligence. Most people do not know this. They mistake volume for force, vulgarity for courage, and repetition for victory. They hurl words the way children throw mud, with great enthusiasm and no architecture. The result is rarely devastating….
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Between Birth and Disappearance: What Makes Human Beings Special?
We rise each morning into a world that did not begin with us. Light reaches the window after traveling across distances the mind cannot hold. The earth beneath the house is ancient beyond our family names, older than every language, older than memory, older than grief. The trees keep their…
Memoir & Life 
When the Ordinary Turns Strange: Childhood Fear and the Uncanny
There are children for whom the world never arrives as a safe and given thing. It arrives already bent. Not visibly, perhaps. The house still has walls. The table is still set for dinner. Shoes wait by the door. Grown voices rise and fall in the next room. Morning comes….
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Blessed Be All
By afternoon, the beggar had reached the center of the city, where the streets widened, and the stone buildings seemed to look down on human ruin without surprise. Along the square, beggars sat in rows against the walls, and near the steps of the churches, each with a bowl, a…
Meta Learning 
The Hidden Balance of Collaboration and Competition
There is a way of looking at the world that mistakes peace for the absence of tension. It imagines that what is most holy must also be most still, most pure, most free of friction. But the deeper one looks, the less convincing this becomes. The roots do not grow…
Memoir & Life 
The Soul’s Refusal to Harden
There are nights when the sky appears almost cruel in its serenity. The stars burn with their ancient fire above the houses where children are born, above the roads where men betray one another, above hospital windows, prison yards, empty chapels, and fields still holding the memory of blood. They…
Meta Learning 
I Know That I Know Nothing: The Wisdom of Unknowing
“I know that I know nothing.” The sentence has followed Socrates through the centuries like a small, persistent flame. He may never have spoken those exact words. Plato gives us something subtler: Socrates believed himself wiser than another man only in this narrow sense, that when he did not know,…
Memoir & Life 
I Hate Unfinished Business
Last year, this was the week when my brother told me that doctors are suspecting that Dad might have Cancer. He was not getting better and all other options were crossed. Doing a Biopsy was the last remaining test. This was hard for him and everyone. I suspected this through…
Memoir & Life 
To Feel Pain Is To Be Alive
Do what you need to do, do what you want to do. Anticipate pain. Without pain, you won’t last long under pressure. Pain is the jet fuel for inner motivation. People say pain is temporary, don’t give up. Don’t quit. BS. Pain is not temporary. Pain is intermittent. It should…
Memoir & Life 
Transformative Change Through Organic Inquiry
There are times in our lives when we all feel we’re on the top. But, there are also times when we slip down unknowingly. They are the high and low points of our life. Sometimes, I wonder why we need to experience these low points, when in fact; we know…
Memoir & Life 
Life As A Research Project | Transpersonal Experiences In Ordinary Settings
What is the experience of being human – the one we wish to inquiry into, investigate, experiment with, or examine? We like to believe that we are living an ordinary life in an ordinary world, but are we really living an ordinary life? Examining our life under a “transpersonal lens” may be…
Memoir & Life 
Who Are You? Just A Label or An Epic Book
“Adventure means exposing yourself to the world out there.” — Naked Soul Who Are You Are you just a label or an epic story or a fun saga? Is your life “out-of-box” and is it evolving? We make a life by what we give, experience, build and learn. Each year…
Memoir & Life 
May the Circle Complete: How To Deal with Negative Experiences
I am feeling sad today. Actually terrible. I just learned that someone I trusted and admired actually turned out to be not so nice after all. A cunning businesswoman who pretends to be something different. I feel hurt by her actions but I am also thankful to her. She is…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
On Meditation: Why Meditate? Mindfulness Through Meditation
Meditation is a great way to improve many areas of your life and open channels to your subconscious brain so you can more quickly and easily imprint new habits and beliefs. “Mediation works. My meditation practice helps me to live more deeply.” If you understand technology, you can…
Memoir & Life 
Metamorphosis, Transformation, and The Power of Positive Change
Why do we hate change but buy transformation? Why we hate building new habits but love new year resolutions? The problem is in the hook (the promise, the proposed solution, the value add). Our mind translates these words differently. What do I mean by “our mind thinks of these words…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
James Patrick Kinney’s Poem “The Cold Within” | All Men Are Created Equal
The Cold Within Six humans trapped by happenstance In bleak and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood Or so the story’s told. Their dying fire in need of logs The first man held his back For of the faces round the fire He noticed one was…
Health & Longevity 
Does Age Really Matter? (When It Comes to Your Life’s Purpose)
A short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages. At the end of your reading, if you feel motivated to take actions and take charge of your life, please share this list with atleast 1 friend who you think needs to read this. At 19 months, Helen…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Thought Experiment: Can the End of This World Start a New Beginning
An interesting philosophical question is a question “Is the end of the world a new beginning?” Scholars have pondered this question for centuries and it served as the focus of a 2000 documentary by PBS’s frontline program “Apocalypse! The Evolution of Apocalyptic Belief and how it shaped the Western World.”…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Naked Soul Meaning: What Does It Mean To Be A Naked Soul?
Naked Soul Meaning As an observer, writer, wanderer, and storyteller, I believe that to be naked is to show up, to be present, to express my truth in life. It’s to overcome my own self-imposed limitations and to transcend external influences that are often authoritarian or fear-based. To me, this expression…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Do Not Feed the Trolls. Do Not Fear the Haters.
The internet gives everyone a voice. It also gives some people a costume. Not everyone who disagrees with you is your enemy. Not everyone who criticizes your work is a hater. Not everyone who leaves a harsh comment is a troll. If you want to survive online without becoming paranoid,…
Memoir & Life 
Can An Unlikely Person Transform Your Life? You Never Know
Do you believe an unlikely person can transform your life? This is an interesting question with a resounding answer that a person can absolutely change your life for the better. Random encounters on streets / The Naked Soul Partners Can An Unlikely Person Transform Your Life This article will delve…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Spirituality and Eroticism: An Erotic Perspective
I’ve recently been looking into the history of spirituality and eroticism. Since the antiquity, there has always been some overlap and deep connection between the two great muses of human pursuits. Spirituality and Eroticism From my research, what I have found that either the religion has tried to suppress the…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
How to do Mindfulness Meditation in 9 Steps? Learn step-by-step in just 15 minutes
Have you ever wondered why mediation is so popular in our culture? It is no wonder that in today’s society, which is full of stress and anxiety, meditation helps people in calming one’s mind and bringing clarity of thoughts. You may ask, What is meditation? To that, I would say,…
Philosophy & Spirituality 
Not Blessed Are Those: Twelve Ways the Soul Forgets Its Blessing
The soul does not become empty all at once. It becomes empty through repeated surrender to what is small, false, fearful, vain, cruel, or asleep. A life can be lost long before death arrives. Cowardice, gossip, greed, vanity, hardness, sleep, desire without love, certainty without humility. Every failure named here…
