Stop resenting your struggles start habituating yourselves to them – and they will start hurting less Suppose we have to do something difficult, be it [...]
Death is meant to point to enlightenment not be a plot point in entertainment Death is one of life’s most sobering realities, being the irreversible [...]
Even if we can’t understand Krishna we can still stand under Krishna Life sometimes assaults us with devastating adversities that cripple us materially and spiritually. [...]
Our urges aren’t like endlessly rising lines they are like endlessly recurring waves – surf them patiently Whenever some self-destructive urge attacks, we tend to [...]
Turning away is not running away if we are turning toward something better Suppose we see a person who constantly agitates us. Not wanting to [...]
What we know doesn’t define us as much as what we want to know Suppose someone who is in a disaster-hit area knows the path [...]
Problems may get stuck inside us but we don't have to get stuck inside them Suppose someone writes abusive graffiti on our house wall. We [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 15.9 śrotraṁ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṁ [...]
We can never start in our life unless we start with our life Suppose we wanted to walk somewhere, but somehow took several wrong turns [...]
We don’t have to outweigh our urges; we just have to out-wait them Suppose a thief is trying to barge into our house by breaking [...]
Thinking that thinking is troublesome is troublesome Some people avoid thinking about life’s big questions such as: “What is life meant for? What happens after [...]
When we resist our urges they may become scarier but they don’t become stronger Suppose an animal trainer is domesticating a wild tiger by starving [...]
To be caught unawares occasionally is condonable to be caught unawares repeatedly is condemnable Suppose a person who runs a ferryboat gets caught in a [...]
We may be circumstantially distanced from Krishna but we don’t have to be devotionally deprived of Krishna Life sometimes puts us in situations where we [...]
The mind’s complaining about a problem is often a bigger problem than the problem itself When the weather is bad, say, too cold, we all [...]
Insight comes by catching sight of the link between things already in sight Whenever we encounter some especially insightful people, we may wonder, “How do [...]
To see our own stupidity unvarnished and unjustified is infuriating and invigorating When someone we care for does something stupid, they often try to hide [...]
Opening the mouth without opening the mind helps neither the mouth nor the mind We all have had to sometimes bite our words. On seeing [...]
If conscience doesn’t create a barrier between impulse and indulgence intelligence must Suppose a river tends to overflow unpredictably, flooding the nearby areas. To protect [...]
When the sensual deludes the eye the spiritual eludes the I The world around us is filled with innumerable sensual stimuli. And most such stimuli [...]
When we are attached to someone we don’t care much for them; we care much more for what they think about us Suppose a doctor [...]
