Flow, Credentials And Grad Research

1. Flow — Have been reading the very interesting book by MC. Below are notes from my reading of the first 2-and-a-half chapters The state of flow is characterized by total immersion in the task at hand, so much so that one loses the idea of time and self. In this state, doing is enjoyment, [...]

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Gratitude

Over the past few months, I have spent hectic days of study, interspersed with idle walks around the lake, book reading and just being myself. With the passage of time, it seems more and more clear that happiness is closer than we imagine. Moments of laughter with friends and family, companionship, and a clear conscience [...]

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Thought for the Day

… The best feeling in life is the one of growth, where you feel that you are learning new things, contributing in new ways, and becoming a better person each day. …

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Bubbles of Thoughts

land slowly on paper… 1. Inner Voice, or Analysis? I wonder what’s better: to think, analyze, hypothesize? Or to be aware of the heart’s desire in the present moment, and follow it, wherever it may lead? The easy answer is to say… somewhere in the middle. I am not sure, however, if that is the [...]

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Simple Emotional Oscillations

Quite often, what we think we’d do turns out to be different from what we actually end up doing. — In crisis, we think we’d possibly feel upset for a little amount of time. Ideally, we do not even want that — we’d like to be the eternally calm surface of a deep lake. What [...]

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Just a Table-spoon

When I lock myself in a house.
That’s called ‘What’s in Me’,
You throw open the windows
With storms of ‘What could be’!

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A Short Story

Meet Smiley. She is seven years old, loves wearing red-colored frocks and dancing in the rain. To her, everything seems like a miracle. She smiles when she sees a tree, a flower, a moon, a horizon, a person, a thing. It is raining lightly, a gentle tip-tap over the roof of Smiley’s little hut. As [...]

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one road diverged in a wood

place: Greenbelt, MD This beautiful tree stands near a picturesque lake in Greenbelt, about 6 miles from the UMD campus. A gentle breeze swept across my face as I sat looking at the path in the background, wondering if it would ever diverge later and offer a choice of route. Is life always about making [...]

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The Joy in Mystery

The world around is beautiful, and mysterious. Simple things like the snowflakes, the moving clouds, twinkling stars, diffused sunset colours and a baby’s smile arouse a feeling of awe and wonder. I enjoy being a witness to such special moments. Sometimes they bring in poetry, sometimes they inspire curiousity. Science is a tool for the [...]

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waking or dreaming?

To dream about waking,And while waking, to dream,I dream about the differencethat waking would mean… —–26 Jan, 2006

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