Here's an excerpt from Dilip Mukerjea's new book, BrainTales: Imagination to Imprint:

Write from Your Soul, not from Ego

Never let the ego deceive you… for too long. Focus on substance, not ego. We all start working from egotism and exhibitionism, but much of what emerges is nauseous. Write from your soul. It will give you a greater, more exuberant motive. You will get to know yourself better, and be who you are...not who you think you should be, for other people. We cannot know ourselves until we have done a self-portrait...as a drawing, and, as a story! And we cannot know anyone else either, until...we have done the same to them. For them. For you. 

The creative power is expressed in all domains of life: home, business, society at large. If we fail to express it, we become emotionally arthritic and spiritually calcified. Creative expression is granted to us for the enlargement of the soul. Release it, and detonate that silent bomb of revelation within you...you will witness your Divinity! 

Writing from the soul is about bursting out of the dot, reaching for, and filling, the sky, the cosmos, the vastness of all that is…beyond infinity, beyond eternity. It is a loss of control, where thinking stays out, and wildness takes over. 

Is that what falling in love is? 

All this stuff that’s inside you, it’s not there to...stay in. It needs to burst out and pour itself into some form. This is what writing will help you do. In this world of supertech abundance, nothing we have ever produced can match the outpourings of our imagination. Technology is not everything...despite all its benefits. I think it is wonderful to be a language major. It might look like a dumb topic, to major in English (for example). People might think it leads nowhere. But it’s great to tread a path to nowhere...sometimes...often...never...always. It leaves us space, and time, to love. Is that not the best kind of love? If you love to write, you will write...to love. 

If you write to love, you will love to write. Your flow of words will grow freer and better, truer and more abundant. Like love. From the soul. Away from the ego. 

LET GO THE EGO!

There will never be another now - I’ll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I’ll make the most of myself. 

Helen Keller