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On Feb 25, 2016 Manyam wrote on The Day I Learned The Value of a Smile, by Maya Angelou:
Beautiful, made me smile :)
On Aug 20, 2015 many am wrote on True Splendor of Science, by Alan Watts:
Beautiful words, the more you look deeper the more you find, that's the true wonder that surrounds us, only in few fleeting moments we have a fragile grasp of it and then the mind does it's tricks and sucks you back into it's theater. we are indeed blessed to be in an age where more of us are becoming aware of it with little effort because of those that came before us.
On May 5, 2015 Many wrote on Radical Amazement, by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel:
Do we need the notion of 'he' to wonder? Anytime I lookup i am in a state of radical amazement, how is that tiny little me can look up and find our about the trillion stars and billion galaxies out there, wondering and wandering has been lost in our times but we don't need 'he' gods or goddesses anymore, just look up at the sky
On Mar 21, 2014 Manyam wrote on Are You Bored Yet?, by Karen Maezen Miller:
beautifully written, we are drowning in distractions and yet want more. To stop and do nothing seems scary, there is not a single second left in our tomorrow that we have not planned for in our minds consciously or unconsciously, why? Not sure the cosmos intended us to be this way while they simply drift away with abandon
On Apr 21, 2013 Manyam wrote on The Great Tragedy of Speed, by David Whyte:
That's very beautifully put, The odd irony is that we all do recognize the unnamed race we seem to be on at a conscious level but seem incapable of slowing down. It needs a deliberate effort to slow down, like friction stopping a moving object we need something to slow us down, may be it's finding the source of friction that we are willing to trade off against the speed is the real challenge, not the race it self.
On Mar 14, 2013 Manyam wrote on Serving Is Different From Helping And Fixing, by Rachel Naomi Remen:
On Feb 23, 2012 manyam wrote on The Secret Of Work, by Swami Vivekananda:
On Dec 30, 2011 manyam wrote on How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow:
Wonderful passage that captures an essential force in our lives that we rarely speak about and acknowledge. This should not mean we become vagabond flames of the winds but create meaning in our lives despite those winds. We may not yet know the purpose of our lives but one thing we could be is be greatful for what we do have today and create well paved paths for those to come just like the father did in the article for the son to be born and raised in NY.
On Aug 25, 2011 mailman wrote on I Am Nothing, by Paul Buchheit:
Glad to see Paul dive into the fallacy of expectatations. The eastern philosophies play down the self and there by freeing it from these false choices/expectations as paul says. There is deep wisdom in doing and being without expecting. but it's very hard to do. very very hard.
On Jan 17, 2011 mailman wrote on Worms Are, Therefore I Am, by Satish Kumar:
What a wonderful view of the world that surrounds us, thanks for giving us that apple byte of wisdom.
On Jun 20, 2023 Many am wrote on Radical Optimism, by Rev. Joan Halifax: