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When Books Start Talking ...

Books talk with me. It is a sort of emotional journey. Different characters enter and go away. When I think about book reading I think it is a sort of series of emotional changes. When I ask someone a question, Did he like the book? He can plainly answer: Yes or No. But when it is time to answer why? Even expert readers fail to articulate their feelings about the book. I remember asking my friend, why did he like "Alchemist"? And he was blank for a few minutes and then replied in something like flow and characters. When I talked to many readers, I realized it is not story or a particular character, but it has to do with the way relationships among characters evolve over the time. It is how someone establishes relationships with the characters. Endearment with characters and their behavior. Truly speaking these characters becomes your friend and start conversing with you. I typically think that association of language with character can unfold these mysteries of our love for

Guru, emotions, NLP and more

Guru, Emotions, NLP and More... Sadguru mentioned that Guru is not one who teaches but one who takes away darkness. The person who teaches is the teacher. As per Sadguru - guru throws light on dimensions beyond sensory perceptions. Then what I am writing here is about Guru, Emotions, NLP and More. What is beyond perception? It could be thoughts, emotions. But what does that mean? So finally it boils down to deriving. the meaning. Meaning that is unknown. Like we derive meaning from the words. Experts can derive better meaning. Someone can throw light and deliver hidden meanings. Does that mean that NLP is still in nascent state. Probably yes. We on one side talking about singularity and NLP is still in nascent state. That is very interesting. Then what could be next level of NLP? Can it be just deriving meaning of words? Probably not. It is rather throwing light on every word, association between them and going beyond meaning delivered. After reading Inner Engineering - I could asso