Journaling for Self-Discovery

Journaling is something women do very naturally. However, most often men, when they were boys, were in general discouraged to keep a journal. Journaling is thought to be expressing our inner most secrets and feeling, and boys are in general … Continue reading

Paramahamsa Nithyananda: a Saint or a Sham?

Recent events surrounding the video scandal involving the guru Paramahamsa Nithyananda invoked anger, frustration, and outright condemnation from various sectors of the population including some of his former and present devotees. Other devotees of his are calling this a conspiracy against their guru. Some are still in a state of shock… What follows is a reply that I gave my friend.[...] Continue reading

Stories We Tell Ourselves

Story for The Moment

The sentence, “Stories we tell ourselves” kept rolling in my thought-space for the past few days. As I contemplated on this, I realized the stories we tell ourselves, and others, to justify the status quo, to justify our behavior, to justify why we are resisting change, why we want to give up on something that we are doing, or to never start something that we always wanted to do. Stories, [...]

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IMPORTANT: Please Check Your Computers, PHP Driven Websites and Blogs

If you were using Firefox 3.0 or equivalent, you would have noticed, in the last week or so, that whenever you accessed anything on this site you would get a warning that this site might contain malware. Earlier versions of these browsers won’t see it. That really shocked me because I don’t sell any product (except for links to Amazon and ads from Google). When I logged into my account on Google, and ran webmaster tools, I got less than helpful information. And, they asked me to submit my website for review again, [...]

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