In pursuing self-discipline is our imagination working for us or against us?
Whenever we decide to discipline ourselves, we are often jolted into action by external situations. For instance, we may notice how much weight we have [...]
Do we have an inner deception detection mechanism?
As we go through life, we learn that we can't always take things and people at face value. Part of growing up involves realizing that [...]
Might we be wrong about being strong?
If our ego makes us incapable of even considering that we might be wrong, then we are not being strong. Rather, we are being too [...]
Focus on our availability for God, not God’s availability for us
Stop worrying whether God is there for us; start working on whether we are there for God. When facing difficulties, we may sometimes expect support [...]
Emotional intelligence: Knowing when to respond with equanimity and when with empathy
When someone experiences emotional turbulence, especially during difficult or potentially traumatic times, our response can significantly influence not only their emotional state but also their [...]
Don’t be difficult while going through difficulties
Our life may be difficult, but that doesn't give us the right to be difficult When we face tough situations, they naturally affect our behavior. [...]
The under-explored relationship between morality and meaning
Morality often carries associations with religious moralizing, conjuring stereotypical images of outdated codes of conduct dictated long ago. These are frequently dismissed as being regressive [...]
How purposefulness helps us move through complexity to clarity
Purposefulness helps us move through complexity to clarity Life is often characterized—and sometimes confounded—by complexity. Externally, the world around us offers an overwhelming array of [...]
How to avoid acting thoughtlessly
When we are thoughtless, it's not that we have less thoughts; it's that we give less thought to the thoughts that drive us. We all [...]
A Diwali Deep Dive – Significance of the Six Festivals
A Diwali Deep Dive – Significance of the Six Festivals Diwali is not just a festival of lights; it’s a festival of insights. Each day [...]
How to protect attention
How to protect attention If we don’t have anything to focus on, we will focus on anything. Attention is a complex and ongoing phenomenon. It [...]
Why we need to listen to our intelligence, not our mind
Why we need to listen to our intelligence not our mind Listening to our intelligence insulates us from illusion, whereas listening to our mind insulates [...]
When we feel tormented by desire, what can we do?
When we feel tormented by desire, what can we do? Indulgence in a desire may provide immediate relief from its torment, but it takes us [...]
Break up with our mind or a break from our mind?
Break up with our mind or a break from our mind? We can't break up from our mind, yet we need to have breaks from [...]
How spirituality, meditation and bhakti are related
How spirituality, meditation and bhakti are related When we take a life of deeper meaning or higher purpose, we may encounter many terms that seem [...]
Senseless shameless soulless
Actions that start as senseless can lead us down a slippery slope, where we may end up not just shameless but even soulless. One of [...]
18.35 Three ways to see failure positively
Everyone faces failure in life. However, on failing, some people become shattered and give up. Others bounce back and rise. What differentiates them? It's primarily [...]
18.42 Why Success Is Better Than the Best Revenge
When someone hurts us knowingly, we may naturally want to get even— to show them our power, to hurt them as they hurt us. But [...]
18.58 Stop being unfair to yourself
Life is often unfair. In projects, relationships, communities, we often get less than what we give— sometimes heartbreakingly less. But what ruins us is not [...]
3.37 Self-discipline: the war within you, not the war with you
Discipline often feels like a fight with ourselves, like we are being robbed of pleasures that seem rightfully ours. But the Bhagavad Gita (3.37) flips [...]
18.66 When loyalty becomes self-destructive…
Loyalty is a glorious virtue— unless it is disastrously weaponized by the vicious. A tragic example of this is the Mahabharata character Karna. He was [...]