I (from Anthem:Ayn Rand)

I am. I think. I will.

My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . .
My forest . . . This earth of mine. . . .
What must I say besides? These are the
words. This is the answer.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain.
I lift my head and I spread my arms.
This, my body and spirit, this is the end
of the quest. I wished to know the meaning
of things. I am the meaning. I wished
to find a warrant for being. I need no
warrant for being, and no word of sanction
upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of
my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is
my ears which hear, and the hearing of my
ears gives its song to the world. It is my
mind which thinks, and the judgement of
my mind is the only searchlight that can
find the truth. It is my will which chooses,
and the choice of my will is the only edict
I must respect.

Many words have been granted me,
and some are wise, and some are false,
but only three are holy: "I will it!"

Whatever road I take, the guiding star
is within me; the guiding star and the
loadstone which point the way. They point
in but one direction. They point to me.

I know not if this earth on which I stand
is the core of the universe or if it is but
a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not
and I care not. For I know what happiness
is possible to me on earth. And my happiness
needs no higher aim to vindicate it.
My happiness is not the means to any end.
It is the end. It is its own goal.
It is its own purpose.

Neither am I the means to any end others
may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool
for their use. I am not a servant of their
needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds.
I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

I am a man. This miracle of me is mine
to own and keep, and mine to guard, and
mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

I do not surrender my treasures, nor do
I share them. The fortune of my spirit is
not to be blown into coins of brass and
flung to the winds as alms for the poor
of the spirit. I guard my treasures:
my thought, my will, my freedom.
And the greatest of these is freedom.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do
I gather debts from them. I ask none to
live for me, nor do I live for any others.
I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs
to covet.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers,
but such as each of them shall deserve
of me. And to earn my love, my brothers
must do more than to have been born.
I do not grant my love without reason, nor
to any chance passer-by who may wish to
claim it. I honor men with my love.
But honor is a thing to be earned.

I shall choose friends among men, but neither
slaves nor masters. And I shall choose
only such as please me, and them
I shall love and respect, but neither
command nor obey. And we shall join our
hands when we wish, or walk alone when
we so desire. For in the temple of his spirit,
each man is alone. Let each man keep his
temple untouched and undefiled. Then let
him join hands with others if he wishes,
but only beyond his holy threshold.

For the word "We" must never be
spoken, save by one's choice and as a
second thought. This word must never be
placed first within man's soul, else it
becomes a monster, the root of all the evils
on earth, the root of man's torture by men,
and of an unspeakable lie.

The word "We" is as lime poured over men,
which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes
all beneath it, and that which is white
and that which is black are lost equally
in the grey of it. It is the word by
which the depraved steal the virtue of
the good, by which the weak steal the
might of the strong, by which the fools
steal the wisdom of the sages.

What is my joy if all hands, even the
unclean, can reach into it? What is my
wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to
me? What is my freedom, if all creatures,
even the botched and the impotent, are my
masters? What is my life, if I am but to
bow, to agree and to obey?

But I am done with this creed of corruption.

I am done with the monster of "We,"
the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery,
falsehood and shame.

And now I see the face of god, and I
raise this god over the earth, this god whom
men have sought since men came into being,
this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.

This god, this one word:

"I."



AYN RAND

Al Pacino speech

This is one of my favorite movies. Watch the video and you will not wonder why.

Leave things better than you found them

Surprise:- "I read a book". "The Greatness Guide" by Robin Sharma. Interesting book with loads of quotes. In there I liked this particular sentence very much "leave things better than you found them". According to him it is one of the basics of becoming great.

One should have the willingness to improve one's surroundings.They should have a positive effect on the people around.Don't ever reason that I have not made the condition worse than it already was.At least try to make things better. Just think how you would feel if you were able to make a person happy. It will energize you, make you feel special. So never hesitate to do something that your conscience prompts you to do.

I just added this post in this blog for the same reason.

Defining THE 'WORD

A word that is interpreted and redefined a million times but what is
its true definition?If you didn't guess it, Well !! am talking about LOVE.
I have been searching for a pretty convincing meaning since someone
asked me "what do you know about love?"The search continues.
And I searched dictionaries both off and online and got these:
LOVE:
1)to regard with affection. //* Oh it's too vague a definition.
2)to be fond of. //* I know you won't agree that this is LOVE.
3)have sexual passion for. //* My Goodness!! Am in love.
4)a sense of underlying oneness.//*good one
5)long for. //*satisfied with these definitons????

What is this???Dictionaries that cannot even define Love:
The very thing that I consider as "The Womb Of Humanity"
OK!! MAY be am wrong, but I would like it to be defined so.
If you ask me why I didn't include other animals,
It is to avoid defining love as the Womb of Animality.

I asked a few of my friends about love and they said
blah..blah...and... blah....And while I was in this pursuit of defining
love I came across the very familiar "GOD IS LOVE". Just like
saying "UNKNOWN IS NOT KNOWN". I don't want to discuss
more on this now.

I started this saying that this is a word interpreted and redefined
a million times. But there is a problem: Most of those definitions
are from losers, who want to prove to someone or may be to the
whole world that they are in love.So they put their present mental
and emotional state in well phrased sentences and equate them
to LOVE.
Well if you want examples:
1)"LOVE is not to find someone perfect it is to see an imperfect
person perfectly!"
//*I know: nobody is perfect but here obviously the writer was
seriously imperfect!!!
2)"Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you and
expecting him not to do so"
//*Ha ha.. dumped or what???!!!
3)"When your heart bleeds tears. Then you will know it is love...!!!"
//*Very funny!!!
4)"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the
taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and
self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over
yourself, you can't even think straight."
//*Wait!!! I have experienced this many a time.

Robert Frost said that:
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
//* Everybody desires.But they say its not TRUE LOVE.
I don't know the moron who first used TRUE LOVE when even
LOVE is not defined satisfactorily.

Anyways:
People who think they are in love often doesn't care to define it.
May be they too don't know what this "LOVE" is.Mocking???
Just a glorified desire for each other being published as love?
They say it is not to be defined but it is to be experienced, it's
what that keeps you moving on even through all this misery.
A divine feeling that is beyond words.
Parents, Friends, Relatives and many things dear,
Yet I feel nothing divine.Nothing that's so subtle and unexplainable.
I don't know what this "LOVE" is.Hope there surely is something.

When life seems to be an adjustment, a mere adaptation with
what is being offered to you, LOVE seems to be a variable that
can take on meanings as we desire.
But I am still not satisfied!!!
Is there a better answer?

Not that I Enjoy doing it, Just that ....

Drunkyards, Smokers and druggie's why,why,why???
Why do you do these things?I don't know if there is
really any enjoyment in doing these as I have not tried
them nor will I just for the sake of getting this answer.

Last day while watching the movie Mr Brooks this
dialogue caught my attention:-

"Not that I enjoy doing it, just that am addicted to it"

And ya I felt that I have an addiction:Sleeping during
lectures, because apart from that being an addiction
there is no particular reason why i do it. No matter
who is teaching, what he is teaching, when he is
teaching and how he is teaching, I feel sleepy.
Moreover I have not had many sleepless nights and if
there is no lecture going on I sit awake in the class.

To speak the truth I hate sleeping in class but i can't
resist it.I would like to know the nature of your
addictions: whether there is any actual enjoyment or
you do it because you simply cannot resist it????

THE 'V' explained in V4VENDETTA

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate.This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

This Is The New Shit!!!

You can't get a better conclusion than this to a
great theory or a wonderful idea or an amazing
unseen technique.

For instance see this video of the new tricks by
the one and only Christiano Ronaldo.
Surely this is the new shit.


Now the following is written
by my friend Suraj,

"Mankind in his insatiable search f0r divine
kn0wledge has discarded all biblical teachings
Realizing that the strength 0f religi0n
is the repressi0n 0f kn0wledge,
All structures 0f religi0n have c0llapsed.
Life prays f0r death in the wake 0f the h0rr0r
0f these revelati0ns.

All men are n0t created equal
0nly the str0ng will pr0sper
0nly the str0ng will c0nquer
0nly in the darkness have i realized
This is the new Shit !!!!!!!!!!!!.      "

Try this as the concluding line for your seminar
on the latest technology in your field of study.
All The Best!!!!