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Life Reflections

Thoughts shaped by experience, awareness, and the quiet work within.

Why We Remember Pain More Than Happiness?

Why We Remember Pain More Than Happiness? Why I kept count of my pain while letting the joy fade?   I don’t live in the past painful chapters of my life but pain still lives inside me. It’s a new day but I haven’t yet fully embraced it. A part of me is often found […]

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Inner Growth

10 Stoic Principles for Inner Peace in a Chaotic World

10 Stoic Principles for Inner Peace in a Chaotic World.

10 Stoic Principles for Inner Peace in a Chaotic World. A calm mind has become a top-tier dream today. It may not be spoken about openly, but deep down, almost everyone is striving for it. In a culture obsessed with hustle and achievement, while many external goals have been met, one essential thing is missing

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Inner Growth

Empathy Fatigue: When Empathy Becomes Exhaustion in a Good Man

Empathy Fatigue: When Empathy Becomes Exhaustion in a Good

Empathy Fatigue: When empathy becomes exhaustion in a good man. Even at their breaking point, empaths don’t blame. They look within to recalibrate. They introspect to build healthier ways of expressing empathy. Yes, I am speaking to you — the empath who is facing empathy fatigue. You feel you have a vast room in your heart to

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Life Reflections

How to Stay Unbothered When People Try to Bring You Down

How to Stay Unbothered When People Try to Bring You Down

How to Stay Unbothered When People Try to Bring You Down He who rules through power reveals his weakness.He who rules through love reveals his strength. Every act of sarcasm, every hurtful behavior, every shallow gesture, every petty action, and every dominating attitude is weakness disguised as power. But when you become the recipient of this disguised weakness, you make the

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Life Reflections

Things to Do in 2026: Changing My Moments Instead of Chasing Big Goals

Things to Do in 2026: Changing My Moments Instead of Chasing Big Goals

Things to Do in 2026: Changing My Moments Instead of Chasing Big Goals New Year is not the magic. Who you become is. December came surprisingly with a shift. I wasn’t planning new goals or new dreams for 2026, but something different struck me this December. I lost my hankering for big resolutions when my

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20 Brianna Wiest Quotes for Your Silent Comeback

20 Brianna Wiest Quotes for Your Silent Comeback

20 Brianna Wiest Quotes for Your Silent Comeback “You will know that it’s time to take your power back when there is no other viable choice, because in the aftermath of loss, you discovered that you unraveled your own existence so that nothing could be taken from you again.”— Brianna Wiest It’s been quite a

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Inner Growth, Quotes

And really I think I like who I am Becoming.

And really I think I like who I am Becoming

And really, I think I like who I am Becoming. My list of desires had everything—except a better version of myself. Like any other dream, becoming your better self demands readiness. More than ambition, it requires a deep, honest desire to see yourself grow, transform, and evolve. Only when growth becomes a conscious choice does

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Life Lessons

The Question that broke me open: What would you do with 1 Crore?

The Question that broke me open: What would you do with 1 Crore?

The question that broke me open: What would you do with 1 Crore? The question was simple. What it unlocked inside me wasn’t. The Shift That Changed Everything Once, while doing my kitchen chores, a YouTube advertisement interrupted my video — and ended up leaving an imprint on my mind. A man appeared with his little daughter

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Inner Growth

They spent days creating Mandala-then let the wind take it away.

They spent days creating Mandala-then let the wind take it away. Sand Mandala: A spiritual method of visually representing the law of impermanence in life. Life is a subject we don’t have a direct teacher for. And because we’re not educated on its rules, principles, and chapters, we often call it difficult or try to escape

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Life Reflections

Every Miracle in life starts with a Problem.

Every Miracle in life starts with a Problem.

Every miracle in life starts with a problem. The very first line that struck me when I was trying to define the word miracle in my own way was: “A miracle is when a person is chosen as a proof of divine presence.” This thought emerged from my awareness that in the starkest and most impossible adversities

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