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As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.

But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through.

So you see these astonishing demonstrations: Voodoo acolytes in a state of trance handling burning embers with impunity, a rather astonishing demonstration of the ability of the mind to affect the body that bears it when catalyzed in the state of extreme excitation.

To this day, they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary.

If you've ever seen the Yanomami blowing that snuff up their noses, that substance they make from a different set of species also contains methoxydimethyltryptamine. To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

Well, the truth is the 20th century, 300 years from now, is not going to be remembered for its wars or its technological innovations, but rather as the era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.

Now in India, the big inequities are within the state, rather than between the states.

He doesn't quite know what to do, so he starts going around the crowd and starts talking to people and he says to people in this rather unique way, "How does it feel to be free?"

Nonetheless, it's given rise to the notion that maybe it's not just these prima donnas that have these supermassive black holes, but rather all galaxies might harbor these supermassive black holes at their centers.

So, that's the form of the puzzle coming out of the content, rather than the other way around.

It's rather like that line in the film "As Good As it Gets."

And over there I experienced other people's suffering, up close and personal, immersed myself in some rather intense and emotional stories, and at times I experienced great fear for my own life.

And I decided that I had compromised, just like my friends in those discussions, where we told stories in contexts we made excuses for, rather than taking responsibility for.

Paradoxically, when I let go of these objectives, and worked from a place of compassion and purpose, looking for excellence, rather than the results of it, everything arrived on its own, including fulfillment.

The second story I'm going to tell you about is about a group of very special fighting women with rather unique peace-keeping skills.

Some of the firemen told me that they were also inspired to do better because they were so pleased to get thank-yous rather than brick bats.

It's a rather mediocre looking dragonfly.

But if you take that attitude, you're actually missing something rather special.

Because this dragonfly has a rather amazing story to tell.

But slowly it began to dawn on me that something rather special was happening.

And I only stumbled on this because I was living in Malé, in Maldives for long enough for it to percolate into my brain that something rather special was going on.

This is a rather special bird.

And this guy, the roller, a rather beautiful bird.

Even though it pricked my conscience then, I could not, or rather I did not tend to her or assist her, because I was busy building my real estate company.

Not to conquer the planet or space, not anymore, it has been done, but rather to improve the quality of life.

In this case a rather strange and inexplicable activity happened over the last breeding season, wherein a large male king cobra actually grabbed a female king cobra, didn't mate with it, actually killed it and swallowed it.

I feel like I'm living my life rather than actually just racing through it.

Rather than designing my own collection, I knew if I was really going to make a difference, I had to go mainstream.

So I thought today I'd do something a little different, and talk about what we're looking for, rather than saying, you know, rather than giving you tried-and-true examples.

So I rather like this picture here.

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