Express Yourself

“The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely.” –French National Assembly in 1789 Interesting read of the history of publishing. Could not agree more with the above quote, there is nothing more important to me than the ability to freely […]

Bad Thoughts Are Bad and Good Thoughts Are Good

Thoughts are the root of everything we experience in our life. So why do we entertain bad thoughts if we know that bad thoughts are bad for us and good thoughts are good for us? Mind, like a farmland, needs to be plowed, weeded of bad thoughts to get the crop of Ananda (Joy). It […]

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces—to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What’s thrown on top of the conflagration […]

Screw It, Let’s Do It

The Prophet By Gibran Khalil Gibran

I don’t know why it took so long for this book to come to me, recently heard of this masterpiece on life and living by Gibran Kahlil Gibran on a couple of podcasts and went to look for it on Google. Luckily, this book is available for free reading on the Internet Archive, this gem […]

Ray Dalio’s 5 Steps to Getting What You Want Out Of Life

Have clear goals. Identify and don’t tolerate problems that stand in the way of your achieving your goals. Accurately diagnose the problems to get at their root causes. Design plans that will get you around them. Do what’s necessary to push these designs through to results. What do you think? No-brainer? What does having clear […]

This Place Is A Dream, Only A Sleeper Considers It Real

“Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream” The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks Rumi reminds us that the world is an illusion, unfortunately when we are in the dream, we perceive whatever is […]

Inspiration Exists But It Has To Find Us Working

This quote is attributed to Pablo Picasso. I find it true that inspiration comes to those who work. Then why is it hard to do the work. If you haven’t read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, you must. It explains the reason why we are not working, it’s called the Resistance. Resistance keeps us […]

#10 Shiv Gaglani

Rethinking medical education for the 21st century clinicians and caregivers around the world. Shiv Gaglani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis.org, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current & future clinicians as well as their patients and family members. Shiv’s primary passion is developing innovative and scalable […]

If You Are Going To Try, Go All The Way

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. […]