Yearly Archives: 2020

We often want to get fresh insights so that we can be wiser, smarter, happier. If, however, we think of insight primarily as coming up [...]

Spoon-feeding someone means giving them so much information so pre-digested that it neither requires nor allows any further thinking or effort. Usually, the word spoon-feeding [...]

  When we succumb to some wrongdoings, if they are minor, we may downplay them by considering them mere indiscretions. And we may do those [...]

Atheism often parasitically draws on the prestige of science to take unsuspecting masses away from theism. How? By equating science with scientism.  Science investigates the [...]

Suppose we have been giving into an unhealthy craving of our mind for a long time. Then,  the mind feels entitled to our obedience. If [...]

Suppose police remain silent while a rioting mob lynches hapless victims. For such an alarming dereliction of duty, the police need to be held accountable. [...]

Morality essentially centers on discerning which activities are acceptable and which aren't. If we can’t or don’t make moral evaluations, we may become worse than [...]

Suppose a country has a hostile neighbor, who is constantly trying to infiltrate into its territory. If the boundary between the two countries is not [...]

Suppose we want to talk with someone who has closed body language. We hesitate in opening up to them because we don't know what will [...]

When we start practicing bhakti yoga, we may expect to relish great joy because we are connecting with the one who is the source of [...]

Whenever we face situations wherein our future seems dark and dangerous, our mind starts becoming paranoid. The Bhagavad-gita (18.35) cautions that fearfulness characterizes a mind [...]

When we see some things we don’t have — a bigger house, a faster car, a newer phone — we often feel dissatisfied. And we [...]

As life’s uncertainties make us anxious, we often long to be anxiety-free. Curiously however, when we are relatively free from anxiety, as when we are [...]

If someone devalued our life, treating it as if it were worthless, we would oppose, and oppose fiercely. Yet we often unwittingly undervalue the resource [...]

Our desires  sometimes get us into big  trouble, as when we get lured into an addictive indulgence or a toxic relationship. On being thus misled, [...]

We live in a world where people have varying viewpoints, some that seem acceptable to us and some that seem utterly unacceptable or even unconscionable [...]

Suppose an army fought determinedly against an enemy and won the war — yet lost the disputed territory. How might that happen? Maybe another regiment [...]

We all stumble and fall at times. And sometimes our mistakes have serious, even grievous, consequences. On committing such mistakes, it's natural and necessary that [...]

Recent human history has been characterized by an ideological war between capitalism and communism (or its milder cousin socialism).  Despite their history of confrontation, both [...]