Physicists believe they have discovered a particle that is its own anti-particle, an idea that was first theorised 80 years ago. When the Big Bang created the universe out of nothing, scientists believe the explosion created equal amounts of matter and anti-matter. And, if they were ever to meet, they would annihilate each other, releasing […]
Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop
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The human mind weaves upto seventy thousand thoughts per day, as per the findings of The Laboratory of Neuroimaging at the University of Southern California. There is an ongoing debate about whether that number holds true or not. But one thing we know for sure is that the mind never rests – whether sleeping or […]
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Mihali Csiksgentmihalyi was struck by the fact that when the creation of a painting was going well, the artist was completely absorbed in his work and stayed with it to completion, unaware of being tired, hungry, or uncomfortable.
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By Sahil Gadhavi Education runs deep with everyone. It is something we all value as individuals as well as a society. When you introduce yourself to someone, they first ask you what you do, to which you inform them about your education and how that led to you working at so and so place. It […]
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Eighty percent of Americans claim to be happy! But the situation is far from being as encouraging as it looks. Despite the improvement in material conditions, depression is now ten times as prevalent as it was in 1960 and affects an ever younger sector of the population. Forty years ago, the mean age of people succumbing to depression for the first time was twenty nine; today it’s fourteen.
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Ramakrishna use to say that if a figure made out of Salt tries to fathom the depth of the ocean, it will fail. It will begin the search but it will never reach to the destination, because it is after all made of Salt – and as it falls into the oceans’s depths , it is dissolving, becoming absorbed .
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When it starts happening enjoy it, love it, be nourished by it, savour it, dance it, sing it, but dont make a question about it. Just be it. And allow it total space. It will grow. If needs space in you to grow.
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By Sahil Gadhavi Feminism has been a much contested word in the past two decades. It is not because the issue of sexism has suddenly escalated, no, it has always been there. However, in the past two decades women all over the world, especially the west, have really started protesting it. There have been attempts […]
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The search continues whether you get anything or not. It seems irrelevant what you have got, what you have not got – the search continues anyway.
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We call these pleasurable states that we value most moving toward values because these are the emotional states we will do the most to attain. What are some of the feelings that are most important to experience in your life on a consistent basis?