CHAPTER 15
01. Celebrities have more money to spend, and more
weight in society, but have less freedom to move around.#celebrity
02.Body chemistry, external influence, and inbuilt
affinities and aversions, decide a man's course of action. He is held at the
centre, though that is not really his place.#influence
03. Society as a rule has blurred vision. It will
always miss the underlying facts. It will punish the rapist ,but pamper the
erotic artists and their tribe in films and elsewhere. The guilty will go
scotfree and the victim victimised again.#vision
04.A rupture on the surface can be the result of
rumblings underground. This you realise in the course of discussions..#thoughts
05.A busy road at midday bustles with traffic,but
becomes still at night. What a difference! Mind also is like a road. Thoughts
are traffic.#quiet
06. Merit lies in being able to see yourself from a
distance.(of course without a mirror).#self
07. Belated recognition, anything, after prolonged
resistance or neglect, points out a flaw in the norms for social acceptance
.#acceptance
08. A smile in anticipation can be a prelude to
acceptance. But things can anytime go awry.#smile
09. If your luck and talent are at loggerheads, you
can't reach very far.#luck
10. Without a magnetic leader of sterling character
,no movement can grow into gigantic proportions.#movement
11. Result without effort, gains without pain, profit
without risk and return without investment, can all happen once in a way. Cannot
be expected as a matter of course.#gains
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12.Serious illness in old age is a passport for the
other world. Receive one from US embassy, are all smiles, take leave of friends
&relatives,(with green card in the back of the mind) and land in US within a
week. But whatever be the age, we fight illness to the finish!#oldage
13.. If a person is determined not to get convinced,
there is no point in pondering over how best you can marshal your facts figures
and logic .#prejudice
14.If you expect some good thing, and it does not
happen, your mind generally gives time. You visualise some simple reasons for
the delay, and do not worry. It does't happen still. You give more time. Still
nothing happens. Now hope wears out slowly and fades into despair.#despair
15. If all around you are at tension, you will not get
any attention.#attention
16.Moe popularity begets more concerns, less privacy
and less peace of mind.#popularity
17. Media power is monumental power. And it can make
or mar you depending on its direction .#media
18. When strangers appreciate you, they do so for what
you are. When neighbours appreciate, they know also who you are. And this has
added kick. Call it ego or by whatever name. #appreciate
19. The menace of social media, with its endless
gossip, trash and trivia, can be greatly curbed with the levy of a little tax on
every post, to be paid by the user. # socialmedia
20. If you speak without a listener, you are a madcap.
If write without a reader, maybe you are a tweeter! #tweet
21.Belief is blind support for the mind. Rational
thinking can knock the bottom out of it. Who is the loser?#thinking
22. Ideas that strike suddenly can also vanish as
suddenly. So, capture them immediately. #ideas
23. Problems that defy solution are called nagging
problems. But for this quality, the word problem would have become obsolete long
ago. #problem
24. Man is sometimes battered by bad dreams at night
as if his realtime worries are not sufficient. #dreams
25. It was believed that gurudakshana (fees to the
guru)was a must for lasting knowledge. But nowadays we
learn a lot fro google and youtube without paying anything to anybody.#guru
26. If only I have the powers to instantly know where
any crime is going to occur, and also the power to stop it,I will ensure that
nothing untoward happens anywhere. But then God must be having these powers
already.Why then.....?.#GOD
27. Social media is prone to be used as the best ever
invented sure way to waste time in the most criminal manner.#socialmedia
28. It is difficult to climb a ladder in old age. This
includes ladder to riches, fame etc #oldage
29. When there is a torrential flow of ideas in
unchartered territory,and that is also propelled by powerful vocabulary,a
magnetic speaker is identified. #speaker
30. Democracy is a good concept on considerations of
Justice. But it does not work as a political system.#democracy
31. TWITTER is an easygo for thoughts flow. Over to
the world in no time and at no cost. Whether your ideas are cherished by others,
or perish in isolation, unsung and unheard, is a different matter. #tweets
32. Some saintly people advise : " Change yourself.
Dont try to change others". If only everybody had been following This dictum,
then women will be entering (or be pushed into) the funeral pyre of their
husbands, even today. #change
33. For anybody, any day can be the last day in life.
Though this is an obvious and obviously significant fact, you can't do anything,
if you take this seriously. #lastday
34. Conversation, discussion, debate and gossip, all
lie in adjacent territories. #discussion
35. There can be only bare listening if there is no
application of mind. It will not get us anywhere. #listen
36. Ideas suppressed bother you. Ideas expressed
enliven you. Ideas appreciated exhilarate you. #ideas
37. You can neither kick out of the mind, the ideas
that arise naturally, nor kickstart ideas at will. #ideas
38. Robust intelligence, extensive reading, wide
experience, a broad heart and a lot of intuition are some ingredients of wisdom.
#wisdom
39. The difference between interference and
indifference is hard to define. A familiar dilemma in parents-children
Relationship #interference
40. Advisory is telling what a person should better do
or not do. Being supportive means supporting whatever the other does, unmindful
of whatever you think of it. If you have the freedom to choose, advisory is the
better option. #advice
41. I can accept or reject what I understand. I will
not however be inclined to accept, or bold to reject, the concept of God as He
is in the realm of mystery. #God
42. So many millions are so deeply religious, when so
many facts of life are so very inexplicable, inconsistent, contradictory or
confusing. This is a first rate wonder. #God
43. Moments of pleasure are no compensation for
incidence of pain, however liberal the ratio may be. #pain
44. Some take decisions intuitively, whether you call
it a command from subconscious mind, or guidance from above. There are others
who strictly follow the route inspired by logic. #intuition
45. Craving for recognition is ingrained in
everybody's nature. It is therefore good policy to appreciate liberally whenever
that is possible. #recognition
46. Though alert to others' faults, some are blind to
their own .#faults
47 .QUICK to criticise, some are, but hesitant to
appreciate. #criticism
48. Some talk endlessly and dont listen. Some others
are patient listeners, but dont open their mouth.Neither is good company.
#company
49. Age exists only in the mind,some hold.This is
wholly unacceptable.The effect of age sets in at different ages for different
persons,essentialy due to changing conditions in the body,dictated by physical
structure, chemical processes, molecular interactions,
physiological mechanisms, etc ,much of it can also be conditioned by the
mind.When it does occur,it is very real,and cannot be annulled or redesigned by
appropriate thinking alone.#Life
50. Everybody wants to live as long as possible. But some only are wanted by
others(the family or others at large) to live long,
if not forever.#life
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