Meru Sharma

  • Control

    From the days of Ancient Greece and Socrates, there has been a valorisation of self-discovery: finding the person you are deep inside you and developing greater parts of you. The modern emphasis on self-improvement and self-development has self-discovery at its foundation. But, whereas self-discovery was about finding who I am originally, the modern approach to…

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  • 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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  • Structural addiction – notes for a better article

    My current working thesis: we must imagine the collective 8 billions human as a corpus (Corpus) with its own conscious, subconscious, ego, shadow mind with its own psychological drives (eg Eros/Thanatos) and emotion. Background: Desire is the history of humanity. On a micro scale, humans pursue this desire through effort. But the human desire has…

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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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  • Feelings come AFTER the action, not BEFORE

    Many manifestation techniques teach the idea that feeling is the portal to aligned action. So, there is a great emphasis on improving feelings through techniques like visualisation of the ‘living from the end’ that increase the frequency of current feelings to higher feelings. However, I am beginning to realise that working on feelings is merely…

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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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