Quotes by Richard Bandler
Brains aren’t designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don’t, then someone else will. Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all […]
Posted on March 23, 2010 10:45 am
“Is it true?” vs “Does it work?”
Lately, I have been so intrigued by the question “Why” that it has clouded my life-long fascination with the “How”. Trying to answer the fundamental Why questions remains a quest – its deep, its meaningful, even sexy. Trying to answer the How is less glamorous. It is an arena filled with squabbling crooks, missionaries, conmen, […]
Posted on March 16, 2010 10:48 am
Reality is a purple blob
Floating heads like me are often urged to be “realistic” and “practical” Another request often made is to live in the “real world” In about 120 years, all seven billion human beings alive on this planet would be dead – and that is “really” realistic! Being realistic and practical wouldn’t have mattered at all. That […]
Posted on March 6, 2010 5:52 am
Ambition or Meaning?
When I think about how I have evolved, there seem to be two main players. Ambition and Meaning These are the two principal actors in the theater of my life. Ambition and Meaning. Ambition takes center stage at times, his demeanor is assertive, his gaze fixed. He is full of passion and believes in his […]
Posted on March 2, 2010 5:52 am
When the student is ready…
I chanced upon a photo-album in my hard-drive. It had pictures of Gandhi, Richard Bach, Tim Berners Lee and others. At first, I just couldn’t for the life of me remember, why I had created this album and downloaded these pictures. Then it dawned on me. I was creating an an album with pictures of […]
Posted on February 20, 2010 5:54 am
Two of a kind
I do not write very often. I have been advised of Bernard Shaw’s “Write-5-pages-a-day-no-matter-what” rule, have tried it and not succeeded. Regular readers of my (other) blog would notice that the promise of one-post per day was not kept either. I need inspiration to write. I need an idea to bubble up from the abyss […]
Posted on November 28, 2009 5:56 am
The Albatross
Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a crewCatch albatrosses, those vast sea birdsThat indolently follow a shipAs it glides over the deep, briny sea. Scarcely have they placed them on the deckThan these kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed,Pathetically let their great white wingsDrag beside them like oars. That winged voyager, how weak and […]
Posted on November 28, 2009 5:55 am
And the winner is…. Choice!!
Just before I started penning these words, I stared at the white blank space in front of me. The possibilities are staggering. With my thoughts, my mind and fingers, I have the choice to make any use of it that I like. I can write a poem about the beauty of rains, a story about […]
Posted on August 1, 2007 5:57 am