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- Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the…
- Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into…
- Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.
- Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power…
- The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of…
- I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the…
- No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls…
- The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through…
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