Category: Insights

  • On Contentment

    It is generally agreed that excessive greed is unholy, thus the source of misery and unhappiness. Individuals as well as collective groups fight one another over personal and local-scale desires. It is the fact that people do not feel what they have as enough that they continue to seek more. The more they gain what…

  • Presetting the Faculty of Perception

    A saying goes, “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional,” which is true, but mostly applies in time of peace. Imagine, during wartime, when people are constantly facing the risk of death at any moment; life is simply miserable. Is suffering inevitable, then? But as we are living in peace, most of our suffering comes…

  • Maturity

    Growing is a continuously never-ending process. All beings grow physically, but in terms of maturity, humans also have the mental aspect to it. Physical growth has never been a matter of much heed. Born to life, we grow and age, get sick along the way and eventually death comes to pick us up on his…

  • “Promise”

    What is a promise? There are actually many more “promises” in our lives than we think, but the problem is, we, as a result of subconscious habit, only see a word as a promise only if given officially, usually when it’s straight out said “I promise”. Other than that, many don’t tend to think of…

  • On Gratitude

    The world is in a race into the future. The rate at which digitalisation is taking place is exponential and never-before-seen. Humanity is now living in societies more and more steeped in materialism. People are becoming pragmatic and materialistic more than ever, obsessed even, to the point that many even forget fundamental spiritual and mental…