The 100 Keys ! (a list of 100 people who set my mind on fire)

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Guided by the strong spiral force to understand life, I have come across lot of wonderful minds, not in a sense of philosophical nonsense but as a journey and witness of free-flowing wisdom on different level. These thoughtful people with wisdom of the mind, body and the soul have provided me with the subtle understanding of the very question of self and the subsets brought in by the questioning, not as a reader but as a seeker, a hitchhiker in the journey of the unknown !

Firstly, I would like to list down the people I have been in communion with, i have been in a journey with, through their works, through their words and through the silence they showed me !

1. Jiddu Krishnamurti 
2. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (OSHO)
3. P.D. Ouspensky
4. Bertrand Russell 
5. Alan Watts 
6. Paramhamsa Yogananda 
7. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Shivapuri Baba 
9. Noam Chomsky
10. Don Miguel Ruiz 
11. Emmanuel Kant 
12. Schopenhauer
13. Karl Marx
14. Pythagoras 
15. Socrates 
16. Plato 
17. Edgar Ellen Poe
18. Jean Paul Sartre 
19. Buddha 
20. Rene Descartes 
21. St. Paul
22. St. Luke 
23. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
24. Jean Jacques Rousseau
25. Albert Einstein
26. Michio Kaku 
27. Brian Green 
28. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
29. Maurice Nicoll
30. Carl Gustav Jung
31. Adam Smith 
32. Raman Maharshi 
33. Mooji 
34. Sadhguru Jaggu Vasudev
35. Rumi 
36. Sigmund Freud 
37. Abraham Maslow
38. Diogenes 
39. Jesus Christ 
40. Sri Krishna 
41. Heraclitus
42. William Wordsworth 
43. Euclid
44. Isaac Newton 
45. Stephen Hawking  
46. Epicurus 
47. St. Augustine
48. Leo Tolstoy 
49. Anton Chekhov  
50. Charles Dickens
51. William Shakespeare
52. Oscar Wilde
53. Mark Twain
54. H.G Wells
55. Ernest Hemingway
56. Pablo Picasso
57. Papaji 
56. Anandamayi Ma
57. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
58. Sri Aurobindo
59. Swami Vivekananda
60. Adi Sankara
61. Rabindranath Tagore
62. Patanjali
63. Lahiri Mahasaya
64. Lao Tzu 
65. Kabir
66. Mahavira
67. Manly P Hall
68. Nikola Tesla
69. Leonardo da Vinci
70. Ram Dass
71. Confucius
72. Milerepa 
73. Bodhidharma
74. Sun Tzu 
75. Mao Zedong
76. Che Guevara
77. Hitler 
78. Richard Dawkins 
79. Jane Roberts 
80. Albert Pike
81. James Anderson
82. Charles Darwin
83. Thomas Huxley
84. Herbert Spencer
85. John Locke
86. Khaptad Baba
87. Aristotle
88. Alfred Jules Ayer
89. George Berkeley
90. Voltaire
91. Alan Turing
92. Anne Conway
93. Karl E Pooper
94. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 
95. Maimonides
96. Anne Frank
97. Issac Asimov
98/ Khalil Gibran
99. Rudyard Kipling
100. A.P.J Abdul Kalam 



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