How to achieve peace within?

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I have been thinking over this for so long that I arrived at this.

A few years ago I used to think that peace can be attained and maintained through apathy and indifference. If you act indifferently toward something, then you will achieve peace, but now I am asking myself — can you act indifferently when you are not indifferent? Of course, no. So now I have realized this — the only way to achieve peace is to realize the temporariness of everything around us.

Ronald Reagan: Freedom is not free (best quotes)

It’s no secret that I love Reagan. Putting aside the controversial ideas about his politics, which do not matter that much at this very moment, I admire him as a person, as a husband and as a father. His manhood is an example to follow and his dedication to his wife and his wife’s dedication to him deserve one thing — appreciation.

Thought/question of the day: We all are killers

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A recent thought that has occurred to me is — if we don’t kill a person but kill another living being does it make us a less killer than the one who kills a human?

Who said that humans have more right to live than the animals, birds or insects? How many ants do we kill while walking? How much grass do we tread while running? How many trees do we cut a day? How many flowers die every day just to make a girl smile?

Boulevard of broken dreams

Recently I am often drawing comparisons between my past and present with almost no promising vision for future. But even more, I am drawing comparisons between my past and my pre-past. By pre-past I mean my life before three years and four months and by past (which is somehow linked to my present) — after it. Many things happened over this time and the “past” I am talking about has had quite negative impact on my inner world making me highly downbeat on this life.

What if we could control our memory?

The truth is — to a certain extent we are our memories and very often our memories define our approach and attitude to things and people around us. Memories have powerful impact on our day and the more we have and the more we remember the more affected we are by them.

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Memories are like a voice within — the bright ones are like a good word addressed to us that rejoice and make us smile, the dark ones are like a curse that spoil the mood and sometimes it takes longer than just a day to overcome them

Vision for future or absence of it

I remember around a year ago we had a meeting with one of richest Armenians in the world. A short talk with him was enough to understand that this person has not only focused on making money but also on retaining and improving his human aspect.

Without any wish to cite his ideas that reflect pure wisdom, there is one thing that has stuck on my mind. He said that in our life we should focus on the long-term goals which might as well include short-term ones. What he recommended was having a clear idea of where we want to see us 15 years down the road

Purifying the soul

The coming two months will be quite challenging for me, a challenge I am undertaking quite consciously and with a strong wish driven from within. It will be a short period of self-exploration, of getting rid of ghosts around me, of facing my mistakes and correcting them, of confronting my fears and overcoming them, of forgiving myself for certain things and doing my best to forgive those who have ever hurt me, of forgetting the worst of nightmares and ignoring the artificially imposed

The thick veil of human cruelty

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Sometimes I wonder what would happen if certain people had not walked into my life. Would I be the person I am today? Would I have the same views I have today? Would I have the same lack of spirits I have today?

I have been in this state for such a long time that I have forgotten how I used to be. Have I ever been a cheerful person in my heart or not?

We were recently talking with my friend,

Pieces of two different puzzles….

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In this life you always have to join at least two things to get a result. If those things do not merge and mix together then there is either no result or not the result you were expecting. Not in vain people say that spaces between fingers were created to be filled. Everything in this interrelated world is set on this basis.

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When you’re once being beaten by love, you always think you’ll never be able to recover from that. You think so until the moment someone appears and makes you believe that your heart hasn’t died yet, that it can still spread its wings and fly high above everything. This is a great feeling. And that’s how you can describe it, a feeling, but how it actually feels