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IN SEARCH OF ME
RAM
AN INTERNAL JOURNEY
 
 
 
 
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.For if you bake bread with indifference,you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine.And if you sing through as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.-excerpt from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran Questions? Questioning has helped us learn about life, what revolves around us. We have been able to obtain answers for most of the questions that we had during our childhood and then we grew. We somehow got sucked into the monotonous existence as every other living soul. Look at you, how many times during a day do you do things differently. If I speak for myself I would say not many times. Falling into a routine helps us land in our comfortable cocoon and we never want to get out of it. We then start desisting change. We then do things without love, without passion and we no longer enjoy it anymore.Occasionally we meet people who amuse us with their wisdom and question us for accepting life as it comes. Listening to them we might be motivated for sometime and question things however, it does not last long.Mind keeps playing its games and we resort to our good old ways. The only time we question or challenge in general is when our chips are down.During times of crisis we are intrigued to think, we do get clarity. Then we push ourselves out and out and try to wriggle out of the situation. Once we are back to a normal life our questioning attitude tends to slowly decelerate and we happily move back to our routine.Why do we do things we like? Why do we like something and why do we do something the way we do? Why do we fear god? Why do we yearn or attention? Why do we seek solace in divinity? If only I could find answers life would be much more valuable than what it is. It would give me the 
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