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Welcome to my personal world. You are very close to my heart now. If you listen carefully, you can hear my heartbeats. It is human. It is tender. delicate and fragile. It does not understand complexities of the big world outside nor vagaries of my destiny. You may see me smiling at times, sometimes in tears. Please handle it only with gentle care and pure love, because it knows that, and only that!

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Happiness

Discover the child in you to discover happiness
Posted by Vinod Varma at 10:31 AM
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If you can walk with the crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
Courtsey: 'If' of Rudyard Kipling

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My other bogs

  • Whispering along!
    അംബാ കുപ്യതി - രസകരമായ ശ്ലോകം ഓർക്കുമ്പോൾ മനസ്സിൽ വരുന്നത് സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യസ്വാമിയും പരമശിവനും തമ്മിലുള്ള ഒരു സംഭാഷണശ്ലോകമാണ്. ശ്ലോകം ഇതാണ്:അംബാ കുപ്യതി താത, മൂർദ്ധ്നി വിധൃതാഗ...
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  • My world, my philosophy
    Explaining Maya - An interesting video explaining Maya, the great illusion; a consequence of ignorance

Other blogs I maintain

  • Kodungallur Kovilakam blog
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    7 years ago

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World around me..

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