Moazzam Shaikh's Blog, page 59
March 14, 2014
5 reasons why wise men talk silly
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
It rarely happens in wise man’s life because they know how to get control over things and situations. When it happens, it means:
1) They are forced to do more than their will.
2) They want someone to be happy. In small talks it is okay but it is not the case in major life issues.
3) They are tired of being wise. It is funny but it happens sometimes.
4) They are afraid of losing something or someone.
5) T...
March 7, 2014
7 Levels of Fulfillment
Level 1 (Fight-or-flight Response)
You fulfill your life through family, community, a sense of belonging, and material comforts.
Level 2 (Reactive Response)
You fulfill your life through success, power, influence, status, and other ego satisfactions.
Level 3 (Restful Awareness Response)
You fulfill your life through peace, centeredness, selfacceptance, and inner silence.
Level 4 (Intuitive Response)
You fulfill your life through insight, empathy, tolerance, and forgiveness.
Level 5 (Creative Respons...
March 6, 2014
Open Mind + Open Eyes = Endless Opportunity
“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier,” Charles Kettering said. I’d suggest one small change – where there’s an open mind and open eyes, there will always be a frontier.
When we keep our eyes open, we’re alert and gaining information. When we keep our minds open, we’re able to gain new understandings about the world around us. But if our eyes are open yet our minds are closed, then all we’ve done is acquire information.
When we open our eyes and our mind, we open ourselv...
February 22, 2014
The Hard Work of Bitterness
Bitterness. It’s like a disease that eats away at us. The more bitter we feel, the more damage it does (to us).
Unfortunately, during our lifetime things will happen to us that will cause us to feel angry, hurt and bitter. When these things happen, we have a choice to make:
#1 – We can invest our time and energy in feeling bitter, which does nothing but hurt us.
#2 – Or, we can choose to invest our time and energy in moving on, which does everything to help us.
It truly is hard work being bitter....
February 16, 2014
The desire to be important
The deepest urge in the human nature is “the desire to be important.”
There are several awkward moments that we feel and spend throughout life due to the negligence of the world we live in.
Here I think of a strategy that is highly profitable in almost every society. The restaurants and the services they offer to their clients. It is a basic rule of a restaurant to serve the client as he wishes and it has been successful for many years.
The same strategy applies to many other businesses especial...
February 15, 2014
Quotes of the week
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ~Elton Trueblood
Life is a comedy for those who think, and tragedy for those who feel. ~Horace Walpole
Genius is nothing but a great capacity of patience. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ~Jean De La Bruyere
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ~Jiming Cricket
February 13, 2014
Learn to take right action
Stop often in your reading or listening, to think over what you are reading or what you are listening to. Ask yourself just how and when you can apply each suggestion.
We often continue reading without completely involved in it. We just try to get the feel of a book and assume that we know everything that is written in it.
Same is the case with our listening. Well, we do not like to listen to others much. We want others to listen to us. It is a funny fact and it is the same reason that we do no...
February 11, 2014
What should you achieve in life?
There is a problem with us. When we see some problem in us, we think that everybody has that problem. We treat everybody in a defensive way and we treat our self in the same manner unknowingly.
We develop a habit of criticizing everyone we meet with and eventually if affects our personality. We make no good decisions for our self. It happens so unknowingly that we remain in the state of confusion. Some people do not even realize what they are doing with themselves and when time comes to think...
February 10, 2014
Keep knowledge as your close friend
It is something inside of you. It is not something that can be put into paper or into the internet. Written words on the paper or on the internet are information floating around. Knowledge is imagination, if gives you wings to fly to heaven. It vasts your vision. It lightens your life.
But you must keep in touch with all those things which gives you your clarity of mind. Clarity of mind is very important and you can be easily distracted if you do not keep close contact with what really matters...
February 8, 2014
The longest journey
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn. ~Bernard Shaw
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. So if you desire to master the principles that you have, do something about them. Make some rules of action and apply those rules at every opportunity. If you do not apply rules, you will forget them quickly. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
You will find it difficult to apply rules at every opportunity most of the time. It is human nature. When you are displeased, i...
