Monthly Archives: December 2023

Ocean metaphors for liberation are used by both impersonalists and personalists, but in significantly different ways. Impersonalists hold that our consciousness is like a drop, [...]

An ocean metaphor for meaningful life and successful death is given in the Bhagavad Gita 11.28 and 29, where it states that the death of [...]

Bad situations can explain bad decisions, but they don't excuse bad decisions. Life sometimes puts even the best of us in bad situations. That means [...]

The mind has a myopia with regards to other's point of view, especially when that point of view challenges the mind's comforts and desires. Myopia [...]

The ocean is one of the most prominent realities in nature and scripture draws many lessons from nature. So let's look at what we can [...]

The mind wants us to stay in our place because often our current place is a place of subordination to the mind. There are times [...]

Slow down to let go of the things that slow us down. Sometimes when we are feeling that we are going to slow, at that [...]

That the world is changing is just life's inevitable reality. But how we are responding to it is not inevitable. It is either intentional or [...]

Now, tolerance is sometimes misunderstood to be passivity. But the Gita is not talking about tolerance in those terms. For example, the Gita tells Arjuna [...]

Attachment to happiness is often the greatest obstacle to happiness. To be happy, be ready to be unhappy. We all long for happiness, but often [...]

Fear not the promises that we think we can't keep. Focus on the promises that God makes that he can keep and that he can [...]

Even if we can't stop temptation from coming to us, we can still stop ourselves from going to temptation. We live in a temptation-filled world, [...]

The insecure mind sees discouragement even amid encouragement; The secure mind sees encouragement even amid discouragement. Life is always a mixed bag. Some things in [...]

God may be invisible to us, but we are never invisible to Him. When we are struggling with challenges in our life, we feel alone [...]

We are never good enough for God, and yet we are always good enough for God. We are never good enough for God in the [...]

While we are waiting for God's blessings, God is waiting for us to become ready for His blessings. Many times a child may want a [...]

We don't need to become good to come to God. We need to come to God to become good. Sometimes we may stay away from [...]

How much we improve depends not on how much we know but on how much we are ready to say no. Many times, to improve [...]

To get the will to say no to something, focus on the thing that we are saying yes to. Whenever we have to say no [...]

How we are saying no, even when we aren't saying no? Saying no is difficult, whether it is to some person who is asking us [...]