How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?

[ad_1] The knowledge of the self is considered to be the best method to realize the True Knowledge of the world, particularly the human beings. In every religion, self-realization has been given the highest place. In Gita Lord Krishna said, “I shall fully explain to you the Self-knowledge together with Self-realization after knowing that nothing […]

Secrets of Academic Success: Passion

[ad_1] Chinua Achebe started school at St Philips Central School, Apkakaogwe Ogidi in 1936. He was asked to proceed to the religious class where pupils engaged in singing and sometimes dancing of the catechism, chanting of English rhymes, and general entertainment. After he had spent a week in the religious class, his teacher, Rev. Nelson […]

Learning to Study – Hindrances to Study

[ad_1] Whenever one starts doing something different – studying as a mature aged student for example – there are hordes of others hindering progress: especially your progress. They will proclaim a host of reasons for staying in your (un)comfortable place and not attempting to reach your dreams. (Envy? Jealousy?) It may well be that these […]

How To Use Vellum For Your Card Making Ideas

[ad_1] One of my favourite types of craft paper to use for my card making ideas is vellum paper, there is so much you can do with it to create stunning effects and designs. Vellum was initially a translucent type of paper made from calfskin that had been soaked and then dried at a normal […]

How To Publish Your Writing With Duotrope

[ad_1] Are you a writer seeking to publish your work? Are you having trouble finding markets that suit the nature of your writing? I am often shocked by the quantity of writers who do not use Duotrope. Though it may seem a little daunting to anyone who hasn’t used it before, it is a beneficial […]

Love and Burgers: Compatible or Incompatible Relationship?

[ad_1] Burgers — hamburgers, fish burgers, turkey burgers, buffalo burgers and burgers of all kinds are a staple of the omnivorous diet. People eat untold numbers of burgers every day in countries around the world. Yet, is there any thought given to the consumption of burgers, those derived from the death, actually murder, of living […]

Family Caregivers Have Promises to Keep

[ad_1] I’ve been a family caregiver for three generations of family members, and am my disabled husband’s caregiver now. My caregiving days begin early and often end late. It’s a grueling schedule. The other evening, when I was feeling spent, Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening,” came to mind. I love […]

Waste Land – A Thorough History of Humanity

[ad_1] T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, a poem on the spiritual dryness and the kind of existence in which no regenerating belief gives significance, gives the reader a sense of familiarity to all the incidents in the poem, which is plying on the collective unconscious of the reader. While reading the poem one comes […]

Funny Networking Poem and Do’s and Don’ts

[ad_1] Networking Do’s and Don’ts I always enjoy speaking at networking events. I get there an hour early to set up everything for my presentation and then I stand in the back of the room and watch people enter. Here’s the opportunity for them to rub shoulders and minds with other professionals and yet the […]

Ode to the Bat , a Sonnet

My angry bat, you inspire me to write. How I hate the way you abuse and scream, Invading my mind day and through the night, Always dreaming about the big maxime. Let me compare you to a quick cherry? You are more smelly, disgusting and sick. Ice bites the debris of February, And wintertime has […]

Nikolai Gumilev –

Agamemnon’s Warrior by Nikolai Gumilev A queer and fearful question is tight, Oppresses my soul and tosses: Can one be alive if Atreus has died — Has died on a bed of roses. All that we dreamed of and everywhere praised, All our longing and fear — Were fully reflected in those calm eyes, As […]

I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)

  translated by Fledermaus, Евгений Сухарников, © 2021   I have outlived my own desires I now detest my own dreams My suffering never expires It is no longer what it seems Under the storm of the most brutal fate My flowering wreath wilted away I languish in a disheartened state And only for the […]

Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses

And I would like to dissolve in your kisses   And I would like to dissolve in Your kisses… Melt like a snowflake… and burn like a match… And I would like to roll a tear from my eyelashes… A melody of tenderness in the heart to ring… And I would like to get lost […]