The reading room

In my own words.

Full passages from my writing.
Take a moment. Stay with a thought.

26 quotes & passages

Mind01

Mind traps

I notice that most people are trapped, within their own mind traps. If I say something, which seems new, they love the idea. The idea itself is nothing very disruptive, most of the time it's just common sense, but still it's untried. People are so much stuck/trapped/sunk in their own mind that they cannot even see the obvious.

Now how will their mind be fresh and flexible and open enough to think new ideas, if they cannot even get out of the basic mind traps?

I plan to get out completely. Lets see what the universe does to me.

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Work02

Human being or worker robot?

People are so much into their work they can't think objectively or have a balanced view of anybody's actions. It is all related to their conditional thinking and their work training. It is never human. It is always the laws, regulations, and procedure. They are here to follow procedure.

People are made process oriented as that makes them a machine, not a human. That is what corporations want, worker bees.

Working sheep. applying no mind of their own, which is of course dangerous for the company, if they start thinking and applying their own minds.

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Identity03

It's 2026

and it's important to be a REAL, wholesome person, complete with flaws, rather than a perfect, successful, polished and productive one.

Be incomplete, unfinished, slightly unpolished, slightly mysterious, don't be someone who can be read in a minute. Invite people to silently ponder over you.

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Life04

Man as a machine: something to do

Something to do.

wherever we are, wherever we wanna go, we want something to do.

we cannot just do nothing.

nothing does not excite us. we go somewhere and we ask where to go from here, what cool things we can do here? Going to Rishikesh? River rafting.

Going to Vegas? Gambling and getting married for fun.

Going to Disneyland? lots to do.

What about going nowhere and doing nothing? how does that sound?

You gotta do something!

If you do nothing.... you may find yourself! You start to meet you. And that is... scary!

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Life05

King beggars

People are always wanting something. Bigger than what they have currently, or can afford.

The family pressure and social circle makes them beggars, no matter what their bank balance is.

They think their lives will be better than it is now, so they look for better houses, better stocks, a good investment opportunity, a better job, a lottery win, some inheritance, anything.......but they don't settle. Their faces are always having a thirst, a hunger for something they WANT.

 Their eyes are not the eyes of a content, peaceful being, but a gold-digging opportunist.

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Time06

Right NOW

all desires are the same -- because desire means you are not contented with yourself as you are. Desire is a discontent.

Desire means i'm not in tune with the world as of NOW. Something else is needed.. but that has always been the case. Something else is always needed. You cannot say that you will be happy when you have a cycle, a new phone, a better car, a better house.. you have to be in tune with the world right NOW.

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Mind07

Understanding fear

We do not understand fear. Fear is Good. It's an opportunity for us to grow, to be better, to build character, to be more confident. To take the risk and shine. It's the window that God gives us to show what we can do, how great we can be. It's required. Fear is what you encounter when you want to get out of your comfort zone to the learning zone. It's required and beneficial for you.

Stop having a negative approach towards fear.

 Every time you run from a fear, the fear expands.

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Life08

Life

An ordinary life is SAFE and has the seal of approval from your neighbors, parents, friends and relatives.

An extraordinary and amazing life is not having any seal of approval, and many may not understand it and look down upon it.

you all must be thinking for the last 20 or 30 years that you are mediocre, and will live a mediocre life, have a family, pay your bills, buy insurance, pay school fees for your kids, retire, and die. You may think of a bigger house or a bigger car, bigger bank balance, but it is still a mediocre life. This life is still ordinary.

An extraordinary life is.... not this. Then what is it?

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Time09

Live your life today

Dont commit to the gym everyday... just commit to exercise today.

likewise,

Live your life today, as it's the one day you are living.

do not commit for tomorrow... just do the best possible thing today.

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People10

Conversation and questions

Conversations should not be forced, thought out or manipulated. They should be natural.

They should happen by themselves, not started, maintained and closed on will.

A question should not be framed using too much mind... it makes it a synthetic and tasteless thing to hear and comprehend. It should be answerable with respect. It becomes a trap to the person who is answering.

A conversation which is artificially made, a laugh which is done on purpose, to let others know that you are happy, is of no use. It's like a wig, your real hair was always better than fake hair, right? Even if the fake hair/wig is looking nice and the hair is shampooed and silky... it is still a wig, not natural hair.

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People11

With NO work

why is everyone out to swindle others? Why can't people call, message or email without an agenda? without a need to ask money or favors or time or advise or reference or getting work done...?

If i get a call or a message, it is almost always someone asking for something. There is a want, a need.

Why can't people just call? Just write to me to say hi, with NO work?

amazing!

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Identity12

A free mind

The world does not like Individuals, who are unpredictable but ..a manufactured robot. They want efficient cookie cutter type people of the same size and thought process. They want people to behave the same way, work hard, do some office job, earn for their family, be very obedient, cater to the society, live with a bit of comfort, pay your bills on time, educate their kids, pay insurance and then die. They do not want people to make any noise. They do not want celebration. They want us to live as if we never were. We should come, do our jobs, do our duties, and leave. They want us to be slaves. They don’t like us having a free mind.

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Life13

A starry night

Have you ever sung a song in the middle of a dark, starry cool night? Such sereneness, such silence... who would not like to sing a song?

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Identity14

About Vikram Arora

God made me so new I keep on redefining things, changing definitions of known things and concepts and I'm able to explain very abstract concepts with new kind of simple language.

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Life15

Write an epic

Write an epic. Make your life full of GLORY.

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Mind16

Unlearn and relearn

If you haven't unlearned and relearned... you are an idiot with an old OS installed.

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Mind17

A closed mind

Statutory warning:

LISTENING TO ME WITH A CLOSED MIND CAN BE INJURIOUS TO HEALTH.

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Mind18

The mind only says no

The life you can get in 3 to 6 months can be radically different from your current life.

You just need to leave your mind aside. It keeps saying NO. NO. NO!!

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Mind19

Belief and truth

Truth to you is your beliefs, not the actual truth.

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Mind20

Childhood programming

Delete your childhood programming.

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Mind21

Upgrade your mind

Upgrade your mind's operating system. I really don't understand why are so many people stuck with an old OS!

Kindly reinstall your mind's OS.

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Life22

Glory

Glory is way, way, greater than success. Glory indicates that you have experienced hell, you have gone in the dark and have emerged out of it.

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Life23

Reels is the new Junk Food

Reels is the new junk food and eventually screen time will be treated as junk food. The successful will consume less, higher quality content. The masses will binge AI slop like candy bars - getting digital obesity. Brain rot from endless scrolling. Less screens = more status.

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Time24

Why is Happiness Always In the Future?

We are always saving, anticipating and building towards some future ‘happy’ moment, where we believe we will eat a bigger slice of life.

We keep looking forward, towards the future when we will complete our project, or go travel somewhere, or experience the next big moment we have been waiting for, missing the Present all the time.

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Mind25

Emotional Agility: Get unstuck from negative emotions.

When faced with strong reactive emotion, we are usually unable to understand that our emotions are dynamic and start acting like wind-up toys doing the same motions, not being aware of other possibilities and options.

We get stuck in our emotions due to our spiralling mind, our fixation with old ideas and behaviours, our need to be always right, perfectionism and thinking in absolute terms.

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People26

The Ghosts Of Us

The photographs are taunting, the memories are haunting and the old stuff that reminds of the person whom you have lost are like mini-ghosts, entrenched in our minds forever. Maybe that's why people try to forget themselves using alcohol. These ghosts surely need to be drowned. Like gremlins, they constantly annoy and pester, not letting one live in peace even for one single breath.

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