Tag: life
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Thoreau, Bhagvad Gītā, and Jung : On Solitude
Overview In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau walked into the woods with a borrowed axe and a stubborn idea that if he simplified his life to the bone, he might hear what a human life is actually saying. On the edge of Walden Pond, a mile or so from Concord, he built a one-room cabin,…
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The Art Of Dying
It is natural to dwell on mortality after reflecting on the aging process. The following is a synopsis of my current writing project: a manuscript on the Art of Dying. What Is Death? Death can be defined in many ways: most relevant being the neurological and spiritual/religious definition. Neuroscience treats death as the permanent loss…
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Come, Grow Old Along With Me
A few years ago I met a man who said he was sixty-five. His jawline said thirty-five, the eyes said eighty. He had lost his wife two years ago. He’d smoothed grief with surgeons’ hands, learned to fly small planes, leapt off bridges with a bungee cord, and proposed—serially—to women half his age. Over coffee…
Madhu Sameer 