Arvind CR

“Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.”
― Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang

“For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“Religious belief is an attempt to endow your life with deeper meaning and embed it in a positive metacontext—it is the deeply human attempt to finally feel at home. It is a strategy to outsmart the hedonic treadmill. On an individual level, it seems to be one of the most successful ways to achieve a stable state—as good as or better than any drug so far discovered. Now science seems to be taking all this away from us. The emerging emptiness may be one reason for the current rise of religious fundamentalism, even in secular societies. Yes,”
― Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self