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How Proust Can Change Your Life

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Talks on the Gita

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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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Hitesh’s Notes & Highlights

The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

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When the Gita promises “freedom through renunciation,” the impression most of us get is that we are being asked to give up everything we want out of life; in this drab state, having lost whatever we value, we will be free from sorrow. Who ...more

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Hitesh’s Quotes

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability

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“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

tags: healing, poetry

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“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
― Anais Nin

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