Date written: 12 April 2011
Last revised: 16 May 2011
The article contrasts the customary approach to choosing a career with one rooted in life purpose, recounted from my experience as a high school student and a working professional two decades later.
Date written: 3 January 2011
A continuation of the
Experiencing Abundance article, it explores why we come to feel affluent more easily and effectively by uplifting other people than by trying to uplift ourselves.
Date written: 13 October 2010
The poem asks the question of how we should introduce ourselves. After we tell people about our social roles and other masks that we wear, how much do they really know about us?
Date written: 6 August 2010
The third and last in the series of articles on purposeful adoption of beliefs, it tackles the question of what can be done to alter the foundation that our worldview rests on, and what we can expect to gain from doing that.
Date written: 19 April 2010
The article examines the moral progression of our society to identify a growing disparity between our attitude towards people and that towards animals. It suggests how the two can be brought closer together.
Date written: 1 April 2010
The second in the series of articles on purposeful adoption of beliefs, it examines what can be done to purposefully adopt abstract, aggregate beliefs that are embedded inside our worldviews.
Date written: 28 December 2009
Last revised: 14 January 2010
The first in a series of articles on purposeful adoption of beliefs, it argues that, in certain instances, we have the capacity to deliberately choose which beliefs to adopt, and that it is our responsibility to do so.
Date written: 24 February 2009
The article chronicles my recent switch from a typical western diet to a vegan one. Having gone through the change, I thought that it might be useful to describe it in some detail for the benefit of people who were contemplating making a similar dietary change in their own lives.
Date written: 17 January 2009
With our civilisation heading for environmental disaster, the article attempts to answer the question of how we might be able to change our course and seek a way of life that is both desirable and sustainable.
Date written: 19 November 2008
With the concept of a value-driven organisation rising in popularity, the article examines the approach to deriving values that culminates in a small set of values being adopted organisation-wide, and unearths some fundamental shortcomings.
Date written: 4 August 2008
The central theme of the article is the apparent paradox where some intended abuse should be responded to with compassion and understanding while other warrants retribution. It proposes that it is the experience of pain that separates the two kinds of responses.
Date written: 10 June 2008
This is an article version of the Grace proposal. It provides a brief background and motivation for the initiative that the proposal covers in more detail.
Date written: 9 April 2008
The article explores the age-old question of what it takes for us to live peacefully and in harmony with each other. Do we have to agree on what the purpose of life is and how it should be lived, or can we coexist despite these differences?
Date written: 8 February 2008
Living a life of abundance is an ideal that many of us strive for. The article examines both material and non-material manifestations of abundance to suggest ways in which it can be experienced.