Meru Sharma

  • There is no real alternative to patience

    The idea of patience has been at the top of my mind recently. There are a lot of skills that really support the achievement of success. But a lot of those skills are replaceable with another apt skill. You dont have to be a high-stakes risk taker to be successful (even if it helps), you…

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  • Rushing and Patience

    One of the most interesting nuances I have realised recently is the difference between having a great big goal as a means of expanding what you think is possible vs as a means of escaping the terribleness of the present. I was playing around with some astrology readings based on my birth chart and got…

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  • The search for a deeper Truth

    As early as I can remember, I have felt this innate feeling that there exists a deeper truth out there about reality. And the only way to receive the truth was through information and learning. And the way only to receive information/learn was through reading books. Books and reading felt ‘alchemical’ to me – they…

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  • My pain is universal pain; universal pain is my pain

    I have always been amazed by people’s ability to act and emphathise with global issues like climate change or war. When I see people like Greta Thunberg or even more intellectual activists like Noam Chomsky, I always wonder how people can apply their energy and effort to the external global world when there is so…

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  • A ‘deal sheet’ of achievements

    In law and finance, there is this concept of creating a ‘deal sheet’ which lists out all the deals you have worked on in your career and your contributions in the deal. You can use the deal sheet in your resume and in job interviews to then explain your skills and experience to someone else…

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  • Giving myself permission to be bored

    The prevailing modern view seems to be that the modern life is inherently boring. That is why there is so much presence of ideas like “do it for the plot” or “you are only young once” – ideas that call on us to act in interesting ways because it is assumed that fear or lack…

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  • Creating artificial problems for myself

    There is a part of me that loves ordering things and finds a lot of satisfaction in routine and doing the ‘right thing’ (perhaps because of the significant Virgo placements in my chart). This applies to physical things in my life like order in my surroundings and my daily schedule, but also on an emotional…

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  • Moving beyond manifestation

    I like some of the manifestation techniques because they require you to get really clear on the goals and to make an effort to achieve them. But I realised that I was becoming too dependent on emotional work at the expense of real physical world action. My only activity in pursuit of my goals became…

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  • Discipline eats motivation for breakfast

    I was always someone who was guided by my emotions and instinct in relation to action. I thought that my emotions had produced so many good things in my life that I must reward these emotions by holding them as the higher barometer of my action. My emotions and feeling were the way I would…

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  • Creating a universe

    For a while I have been considering about what to write. I want to use this blog as a way to express my ideas and opinions because 1) writing is a great way to think and blogging my ideas helps me develop them, and 2) I want to find something to direct my mental energy…

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