Solitary Soul

UNDERSTANDING Cl. Mario D’Couto SDB             Has there been a time when you were trying to solve a problem but unfortunately for some reason, you were not able to come to a solution.  The fact of not being able to understand can be a real frustrating experience and it can even lead to boredom. But what is understanding? Understanding is the fruit of a series of a lot of effort put in order to arrive at a solution. Insights are part of understanding. With regard to how fast an insight would come, there is no guarantee. It could take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even years. But the point is that it comes at its own pace. We cannot force it to come but we can certainly provide those conditions which could facilitate those insights to develop. Hence, developing an insight or the emergence of an insight can be compared to the work of a farmer. A farmer can till the soil, plant the seed and so on. But, by and ...

THINKING Vs EATING Cl. Mario D’Couto SDB The ability to think has taken humankind to great heights and yet, we often take it for granted. Thinking is power! For a person to do something a choice has to be made and this choice comes with thinking. With thinking there is a weighing of the pros and cons especially when it comes to making or taking a decision. However, thinking is not just about making decisions only. Thinking has many other facets as well as for instance, mathematical thinking or thinking about finding a solution towards a particular problem and so on. The title of this article, as it is seen, is “Thinking and eating” and perhaps, you may be wandering as to what is the connection between thinking and eating. Well to respond or to understand it more clearly, let us try to understand these two aspects of reality separately.             How does thinking take place? Do we think abstractly or is it possible...