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Our mind often acts as our enemy (Bhagavad-gita 06.06). One way it acts inimically is by discouraging us whenever we attempt anything worthwhile: “You are [...]

Suppose someone is walking on a road with their eyes blindfolded and ears plugged. If they struggled only to remove the ear plugs that blocked [...]

Suppose someone is living in a pandemic area. If they have developed immunity to that disease, they may think they are safe. However, if they [...]

We often value our work based on the paycheck it provides — the bigger the paycheck, the better the work. Such assessment is understandable because [...]

Our ego often acts like a trident that pierces us with three prongs: grandiosity, blame and shame.  Grandiosity: When we set out to achieve something, [...]

Some people feel, “Devotion involves pursuing God beyond this world, whereas ambition involves pursuing worldly gain. The two are therefore incompatible.”  Not necessarily.  It’s true [...]

  Modern history is often a compilation of facts and figures, wars and conquests, births and deaths. Traditionally however, especially in spiritual cultures, history was [...]

Suppose we know certain people who talk too much and waste our time. When we meet them, we will politely but firmly restrict our meeting [...]

                                  We may try to share our beliefs with [...]

Suppose a crazy psychopath has taken a child hostage and is using that child as a shield against the police seeking to rescue. At such [...]

Many people want to or claim to stand for God. That means they want to represent God and to challenge those who malign [...]

We sometimes succumb to such improper actions and succumb so frequently and so grievously that we may feel that there is an unscalable distance between [...]

If unseasonal rain ruins a celebrity’s makeup, then how they actually look becomes exposed.  Makeup can generically refer to the carefully crafted appearance that people [...]

Some people say, “I am rational; I don’t accept irrational ideas such as faith.”  While rationality is a vital tool in the human search for [...]

Some people think that jumping over the world, with all its problems and complications, is the way to reach God. Yes, spiritualists don't want to [...]

We sometimes feel, “Good things rarely happen to me, but bad things happen repeatedly. Things happen to me, never for me. If only [...]

Suppose a person is so sick as to not have the strength to lift even small objects. We won’t condemn them for being weak; we [...]

Why we do something determines how we do it and how long we do it.  Suppose we study a subject such as philosophy to impress [...]

If we are to study any subject, we feel more motivated if we understand the purpose of that study. For example, if we are told [...]

We often dread death because we feel that it destroys everything that gives meaning to our life. When we see death as the destroyer of [...]