This post was not planned to turn out like this. The plan was to take a few excerpts and publish the audio snippets. But, to remember my favorite parts I read it again. When I started writing the first draft of this post (months ago) my rating for the book on Goodreads was 4 stars.Continue reading “Siddhartha”
Category Archives: Thinking
On the dangers of non-worship
(Before I start: this post will probably make only sense to Muslims. The terminology and the concepts will be more familiar to them. Apologies.) Writing about the dangers of worship got me thinking. In Islam we know that intentions are very important. We try to guard our intentions so that we do our actions onlyContinue reading “On the dangers of non-worship”
On the dangers of worship
This post is prompted by the quote from Ross Roberts’ blog post about his 12 rules for life in Tim Ferriss’ newsletter “5-Bullet Friday”. “Rule 2: Find something healthy to worship” The underlying assumption being that there is an inherent need in human beings to worship something (*). Personally, I would revise that toContinue reading “On the dangers of worship”