Atul Verma > Recent Status Updates

Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one's life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of contentment to one place, one belief ,or (gulp) one person.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead. We feel free to fail, and that failure moves us forward.

There's a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and the person's actually being responsible for your situation.

This is because you always get to choose how you see things, how you see things, how you react to things, how you value things. You always get to choose the metric by which to measure your experiences.

If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/ success.

The knowledge and acceptance of your own mundane existence will actually free you to accomplish what you truly wish to accomplish, without judgement or lofty expectations.

Our struggles determine our successes. Our problems birth our happiness, along with slightly better, slightly upgraded problems.

Practical enlightenment is as becoming comfortable with the idea that some suffering is always inevitable.

The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more life, it's giving fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important.

A woman is to a nation as light is to a lamp. Will not the light be dim if the oil in the lamp is low? #Women empowerment # Gender parity

Beautiful lines with depth in thoughts!