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The Present Minds

Visual Quotes

A cinematic collection for the overstimulated mind.

Lines lifted from the archive and given room, atmosphere, and visual weight - made to slow the scroll and stay in memory.

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The loneliness you choose is not the same as the loneliness that finds you. One of them has an exit.
From What I learnt from a support dog in Scotland Read article
Life
I had more empathy that evening than I had felt in months. I had not spoken to another person in over two days.
From What I learnt from a support dog in Scotland Read article
Life
He understood the stakes completely. That is what makes the Duryodhana real story harder to read than the simple version.
From Duryodhana real story: What the Mahabharata actually says Read article
Purusharth
Some men do not walk into destruction blind. They walk in with their eyes open and their hands full of everything they cannot put down.
From Duryodhana real story: What the Mahabharata actually says Read article
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Half-knowledge is more dangerous than none. Half walks you to the centre and leaves you there.
From Abhimanyu knew how to enter the Chakravyuha. Nobody taught him how to leave Read article
Purusharth
Attachment to outcome is not ambition. It is a tax on the work, collected in advance, for a reward that rarely covers the cost.
From The Bhagavad Gita described your work problem 3,000 years before psychology did. Read article
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The Gita did not wait for the studies. It watched what happened to people and drew the precise conclusion.
From The Bhagavad Gita described your work problem 3,000 years before psychology did. Read article
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He was the most successful strategist in the Mahabharata. He just was not working for the side everyone assumed.
From Shakuni did not want the Kauravas to win. He wanted the Kurus destroyed. Read article
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A man who carries his father\'s bones into a dice game is not gambling. He is completing something.
From Shakuni did not want the Kauravas to win. He wanted the Kurus destroyed. Read article
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Revenge, the Mahabharata suggests, is not the opposite of grief. It is grief with somewhere to go.
From Shakuni did not want the Kauravas to win. He wanted the Kurus destroyed. Read article
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The Gita does not ask Arjuna to stop grieving. It asks him to grieve and move at the same time. Those are not the same instruction.
From Arjuna put down his bow at Kurukshetra. Krishna told him to pick it up. Read article
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Svadharma is not the life that feels comfortable. It is the life that fits, even when what it asks of you does not.
From Arjuna put down his bow at Kurukshetra. Krishna told him to pick it up. Read article
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