Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”~ Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
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When you come to the edge of all the light you have,and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown,believe that one of two things will happen.Either there will be something solid to stand on –or you will be taught how to fly. Patrick Overton
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He found himself remembering times in his life when he’d hit the emotional equivalent of a cold spot while swimming or clear air turbulence while flying. You’d be cruising along through your day, sometimes feeling great, sometimes feeling just okay, but getting along and getting it done … and then, for no apparent reason at […]
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“If we allow the realities of life to steal our imagination, we might find ourselves living in a world without dreams …” - Nan Whitcomb
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Each thing I do I rush through so I can dosomething else. In such a way do the days pass -a blend of stock car racing and the neverending building of a gothic cathedral.Through the windows of my speeding car, I seeall that I love falling away: books unread,jokes untold, landscapes unvisited …- From Insomnia […]
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Fill your bowl to the brimand it will spill.Keep sharpening your knifeand it will blunt.Chase after money and securityand your heart will never unclench.Care about people’s approvaland you will be their prisoner.Do your work, then step back.The only path to serenity.
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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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Everyone is a house of four rooms: a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual room. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.- A House With Four Rooms […]
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You are free and that is why you are lost.–Franz KafkaOn the interstate of life you rarely reach your destination. In rest-stop after rest-stop, you look for signs of God, or happiness, or just reason enough to […]
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In order to further bewilder the bourgeois and petty bourgeois (as NFP likes to call all those who oppose Zardari), we now have footage of Presidential Elections in NWFP.MPs can be clearly seen showing their ballot to powers that be, presumable so that they can take ‘corrective action’ against those obstinate MPs who want to […]
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کٹھن ہے راهگزر، تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلوبهت بڑا ہے سفر، تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلوتمام عمر کهاں کوئي ساتھ ديتا ہےميں جانتا ہوں مگر تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلونشے ميں چور ہوں ميں بھي، تمهيں بھي ہوش نهيںبڑا مزا ہو اگر تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلويہ ايک شب کي ملاقات بھي غنيمت ہےکسے ہے کل کي خبر تھوڑي […]
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By Baithak.Net
Twenty-five years since the International Day of the Disappeared was launched on August 30,Pakistan has joined the list of nations practicing enforced disappearances as a direct consequence of its alliance with the US-led ‘war on terror.’This particularly painful legacy of the Musharraf era has subjected hundreds, if not thousands, to enforced disappearances — the practice […]
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Lesson #1: We Are Responsible for Our Own Experience of LifeSuch as are your habitual thoughts; such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the color of your thoughts.”Lesson #2: Everything Changes“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is […]
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Total Number of National Assembly seats: 342PPP: 142 seatsPML-N: 91PML-Q: 54MQM: 25ANP: 13MMA: 7Independent & Baloch Nationalist: 17PPP ’s candidate: Asif ZardariPML-N’s candidate: Retired Chief Justice of Pakistan, Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui Seats required to win presidency: 172This means Zardari needs 47 seats over and above all of PPP’s seats to secure the spot. MQM […]
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By Baithak.Net
As published in The Nation, April 01, 1998, the properties of Asif Ali Zardar include:LOCAL ASSETS:Plot no. 121, Phase VIII, DHA Karachi.Agricultural land situated in Deh Dali Wadi, Taluka, Tando Allah Yar.Agricultural property located in Deh Tahooki Taluka, District Hyderabad (65.15 acres).Agricultural land falling in Deh 76-Nusrat, Taluka, District Nawabshah (827.14 acres)Agricultural land situated in […]
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It’s interesting to note that Cheif Justice Iftikhar’s dismissal which culminated in lawyer’s movement, civil society backlash and eventually Musharaff’s resignation all started when CJ initiated an inquiry about 600 missing persons…I for one would be upset if Zadari becomes the president. Now what Musharraf fans say is that atleast he (mush) was better than […]
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The Greeks, as we all know, used to compete in the original Olympic games stark naked and smothered in olive oil. That’s no longer the fashion - because we have different cultural ideas about what parts of the body are suitable for public display - and, in fact, some women have taken the trend for […]
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By Baithak.Net
A few days back I was re-reading a piece I had written last year - Democracy: Dead on Arrival.I had written it while I was still at LUMS and still had the streak of activism…So much water has passed under the bridge… The political scenario has changed extensively. On the personal front, my priorities have […]
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a good traveler has no fixed plansand is not intent upon arrivinga good artist lets his intuitionlead him wherever it wantsa good scientist has freed himself of conceptsand keeps his mind open to what isthus the master is available to all peopleand doesn’t reject anyonehe is ready to use all situationsand doesn’t waste anythingthis is […]
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.- John Updike, writerBut if you build your life on dreams it’s prudent to recall;a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.– Don Quixote from Cervantes Saavedra’s novel Don Quixote de la Mancha […]
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Daily dawns another day;I must up, to make my way.Though I dress and drink and eat,Move my fingers and my feet,Learn a little, here and there,Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,Hear a song, or watch a stage,Leave some words upon a page,Claim a foe, or hail a friend -Bed awaits me in the end.Though […]
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The road will never swallow you.The river of your destiny will always overcome evil.May you understand your fate.Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger.Success will never confuse you or scatter your spirit,but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight.Your life will always surprise you.- Ben Okri, The Famished Road […]
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A boat beneath a sunny sky,Lingering onward dreamilyIn an evening of July –Children three that nestle near,Eager eye and willing ear,Pleased a simple tale to hear –Long has paled that sunny sky:Echoes fade and memories die:Autumn frosts have slain July.Still she haunts me, phantomwise,Alice moving under skiesNever seen by waking eyes.Children yet, the tale to […]
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more,From these our interviews, in which I stealFrom all I may be, or have been before,To mingle with the Universe, […]
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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them…there is nothing.–Jean-Paul SartreCommercial air travel is a regular part of our lives, yet many of us still feel an eerie disquiet when we fly. You browse […]
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Some days things unfold in my life in a way that make me wonder why I am so certain that I need to diligently plan and work and try to make things come out right. Oh, I’m not suggesting that planning and working don’t sometimes pay off, don’t sometimes render hoped-for results. But when you […]
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By Baithak.Net
Silence is painful, but in silence things take form, and we must wait and watch, In us, in our secret depth, lies the knowing element which sees and hears that which we do not see nor hear. All our perceptions, all the things we have done, all that we are today, dwelt once in that […]
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A thought went up my mind to-dayThat I have had before,But did not finish,–some way back,I could not fix the year,Nor where it went, nor why it cameThe second time to me,Nor definitely what it was,Have I the art to say.But somewhere in my soul, I knowI’ve met the thing before;It just reminded me–’t was […]
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In the present world of expectations and disappointments, hidden threats and clear danger, there are many ways to die, not the least of which is consciously - choosing death over life or surrendering in full consciousness and potential. You, howeverm are Not Dead. You are among the survivors, a quick study, awake and sturdy, an […]
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There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must […]
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By Baithak.Net
What is to give light must endure burning.–Victor FrankelMany of us have set out on the path of enlightenment. We long for a release of selfhood in some kind of mystical union with […]
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We join spokes together in a wheel,but it is the center holethat makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot,but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house,but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being,but non-being is what we use.From the Book of Tao […]
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Dominion over the world, as we know, is divided between angels and devils. The good of the world, however, implies not that the angels have the advantage over the devils (as I believed when I was a child) but that the powers of the two sides are nearly in equilibrium. If there were too much […]
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“It’s only the rich who can’t afford to be smart. They’re compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilized world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can’t […]
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by Oscar WildeEducation is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.It […]
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By Baithak.Net
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. It was there that I met Ra.Had I been more clairvoyant, I would have been nicer. Perhaps it would have changed the entire course of history.Ra was no child prodigy. In fact there was nothing conspicuous or out of […]
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Mono No AwareCenturies have passed…It seems that so much has happened. I can’t be sure how long it’s actually been. We have no way of telling time since the sun died. It seems like I have aged a century since I’ve come to this Godforsaken place. And if only I could pour out all the […]
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In the M.I.T. experiments, the students should have known better. They played a computer game that paid real cash to look for money behind three doors on the screen. (You can play it yourself, without pay, at tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com.) After they opened a door by clicking on it, each subsequent click earned a little money, with […]
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Last week, two gentlemen from PTCL approached my company with partnership offer for selling EVDO with our laptops and desktops.EVDO - a 3G Wireless broadband service by PTCL is currently in the pre-launch stage with plans for a formal launch in a couple of months. The gentlemen left two EVDO packs for us […]
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“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”Ian McEwan
CSIS Report on “Post Conflict Reconstruction Project” goes into my repository as a must-read which Im afraid Ill never get around to reading.. A perilous course - US Assistance to Pakistan (June 2007)One doesnt need such a fancy analysis to understand the issue.Unfortunately for us, US supported Musharraf and continues to back him. The man has […]
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For those of you who were not happy with the old ’silence of the lambs’ banner, here goes the new oneAnd here’s the one before that. I thought I had lost this one when I uploaded the new one. Here it is for safekeeping.
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When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.Being and non-being create each other.Difficult and easy support each other.Long and short define each other.High and low depend on each other.Before and after follow each other.Therefore the Masteracts without doing anythingand teaches without saying anything.Things arise […]
Do you want to improve the world?I don’t think it can be done.The world is sacred.It can’t be improved.If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.There is a time for being ahead,a time for being behind;a time for being in motion,a time for being at rest;a […]
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 2007…Wear sunscreenIf I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense […]
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Although Epicurus lived approximately two thousand years ago, I think he hits right on the dot.“If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.” –EpicurusPhilosophers down the ages have been keen to tell the rest of us how to live and how to be happy. Certainly their advice comes to us with the lustre […]
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Scientists say that every year 98% of our body cells change. Put another way, every year we are 2% of what we were the previous year. The person you used to be a couple of years ago..was an entirely different person, a totally different species.Many, many years ago today, in an ever-expanding universe, when the […]
