LEARNING IS LIFE

SKETCH NOTE HAIKU Religions talk of Rituals, rites, rules and dogmas - That's conditioning *** Spirituality - Talks of inward jouney To explore true self *** Inward journey is - unconditional - an aim - for its own worth *** For being spiritual tread the path of soul-searching - First, be self-aware *** Unconditioning- from transient worldly desires is warm-up for search *** Detach from outer Let go all got from the world To start fresh with zest

  HAIKU   Spirituality – That’s true essence of psyche, Not an appendage *** Spirituality – The non-physical within - Our self-awareness! *** Spirituality – That is self-discovery – Finding one’s true self *** Spirituality – That’s evolutionary Self-on-self action *** Let go all acquired From   transient deluding world To begin anew *** Keep discovering And rediscovering truth - Moment to moment   QUOTES   J Krishnamurti on spirituality as discovery of existential truth  ·          Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissec...

  The winners of Findel-CASTME Awards-2024 and Alexander Award will be announced in January 2025 at UK's Association of Science Education  conference hosted by the University of Nottingham early January 2025. The awardee for Findel-CASTME Education Award  will receive a £300 voucher to spend on Philip Harris science equipment or resources as well as an international membership of the UK's Association of Science Education (ASE) for one year. The names of the Findel-CASTME Awardees in three categories and  the winner of the Alexander Award to an outstanding women science educator will be announced during the Presidential Address of the conference. There are a few Indian STEM educators in the award race including this blogger, Dr Lalit Kishore, who had sent two entries: first, on a project with pre-schoolers done at Vidya Bharati School, Senior Secondary Adarsh Vidya Mandir, Jaipur-18 (Rajasthan State) and another as syndicate entry for the project done at Som Gurukul, ...

  Science and spirituality are complementary natural gifts:  Haiku and Quotes    ~Lalit Kishore   HAIKU At your own level Add science-n- spirituality For grand cognition *** Keep science pure, pious Imbibe spirituality – Make science serve humans *** Science is secular Science is a spiritual act It ‘s dynamic act *** Make not science a tool To divide, dictate control- Maul not soul of science *** Scientific spirit That’s part of human spirit - No cocktails required! *** Do must humans science With spiritual reflection - To discover’s aim!   Albert Einstein Quotes on Spirituality   Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe   -   a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.   The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational min...

  Undertake spiritual life journey: Sketch note and haiku ~Lalit Kishore  SKETCH NOTE HAIKU In corporeal world Spiritual beings advent In human body *** Know, first and foremost - We are embodied spirits To realise ourselves *** Strive to 'know thyself' Your true essence beyond mind - Deep learn to transcend! *** Human evolution - Springs forth from self-reflection - Persevere, hone gift! *** Hone meditation Hone contemplation to forge Soul-and-God union

 Crass materialistic climate crisis ridden world: Quotes and sketch note ~Lalit Kishore Quotes Extreme materialism contributes to climate change because the more money people spend on consumer goods, the more energy is used to produce, use, and dispose of them. ~AI Overview The less you need, the more you live ~ Benny Bellamacina It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ~ Bertrand Russell Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests. ~ Bernardo Kastrup Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. `Matthieu Ricard ...

  Understanding the spirit of a child: Quotes and sketch note ~Lalit Kishore QUOTES We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ~ Stacia Tauscher Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. ~ Jim Henson Love is the supreme form of communication.
 In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing 
agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love 
should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum
 with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.
~ Ashley Montagu Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.  ~ O. Fred Donaldson The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~ Mark Van Doren The soul is healed by being with children. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky Every child you encounter is a divine appointment. ~ Wess Stafford, president emeritus of Compassion International Children are great imitators. So...