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Do not bring doom to yourself

शमथ। Samatha Life is not static. It goes against the spirit of life. The biggest misunderstanding we have about life is that only organisms are alive. And our whole lives get spent in imposing a human point of view on the rest of the universe. Being humans, there is nothing

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Life is a joyous offering.

शमथ। Samatha An eternal flow of abundance; that’s what life is. Those who can see this are eternally blessed.  Others can only see constant suffering and somehow want to escape to somewhere else. But those who see suffering here will only see suffering anywhere else too. There only hope is in

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Let No One Dictate Terms to You

शमथ। Samatha You are born with absolute freedom into absolute freedom. Do you believe this? If you do not, then you have only yourself to blame for your plight. You will live your whole life on the terms somebody else sets for you. Can that be called living? When you

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Do not forget to live your life.

शमथ। Samatha Busy?! Yes or No? If Yes, what are the things you can’t find time for? If No, how do you spend your time? If Yes and No, how do you differentiate? Take a piece of paper and write it down. Life is about clarity. How do you receive clarity? Clarity

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Confidence creates, overconfidence kills

शमथ। Samatha Today people are taught that the only one who stands between their goal and them are they themselves. Quite an empowering thought it is. However most people conceive it as “everything happens at my behest”. With it goes empowerment down the drain. You are empowered when you remove the obstacles that

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Everything does not have to go the way you want.

शमथ। Samatha “If only I get that one thing, my life is going to be perfect. I have it all planned.” Aren’t you one of those clever people, out there, in whose mind the above thought got relayed again and again?  Then one day it stopped, and you had that one

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Insecurities will not let you enjoy life

शमथ। Samatha “What if!” How many of you have not experienced “what if ” moments in the future tense? No, we are not talking about rational planning, but about what goes on in the background when you want to do something. The fear that something could go wrong stops you from doing

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What is yours will find you

शमथ। Samatha “I have not achieved what I am truly here for.”  Does such a feeling give you a hard time? Do you brush such thoughts away and go on with what you are doing only to find yourself on bed with them? People speak of certain feelings as positive and

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There is nothing to lose

शमथ। Samatha What is holding you back? Imagination. Do you know what is pushing you to run? Imagination.  Imagination is your inertia as well as force. You are simply not using it in the right way. In your binary world, it is either this or that? But is that how the

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Be part of the destiny

शमथ। Samatha What is the difference between destiny and fate? Destiny is positive while fate is negative.  Destiny is embracing your life while fate is reluctantly going through life. Destiny makes you feel alive while fate makes you feel dead from within. You are the author of destiny while fate is someone

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