- Chapter 17, Text 01
- Chapter 17, Text 02
- Gita 17.02 explained
- We are shaped not just by our ideological faith but also by our functional faith
- On the value of judgments and the judgment of values
- Chapter 17, Text 03
- Gita 17.03 explained
- How Krishna offers a nuanced understanding of faith
- The choices you make make you
- Our existence and our faith are related causally, constitutionally and consequentially
- We make our faith and then our faith makes us
- The God of terrorists is not the God of transcendentalists
- Chapter 17, Text 04
- Gita 17.04 explained
- How people are equal — and how they aren’t
- The modes are not monochrome, but are multi-level
- Chapter 17, Text 05
- Why Krishna gives an additional description of the demonic in the seventeenth chapter
- Our body is not ours to abuse by arbitrary austerity
- Chapter 17, Text 05-06
- Chapter 17, Text 06
- Chapter 17, Text 07
- Chapter 17, Text 08
- Chapter 17, Text 09
- Gita 17.09 explained
- Delusion makes eating a life-threatening activity
- Eat food made of plants, not food made in plants
- Those who let the culture fill their brain with junk beliefs, fill their belly with junk food
- Are we courting suffering with the tongue?
- Chapter 17, Text 10
- Chapter 17, Text 11
- Chapter 17, Text 12
- Chapter 17, Text 13
- Chapter 17, Text 14
- Chapter 17, Text 15
- How to ensure that the right answer has the right effect
- How our speech can enhance our relationships?
- How Our Words Can Make Us Strangers To Others And Even To Ourselves
- Choose silence in these 3 situations
- Surprise gifts: Delighted or disoriented?
- Does urgency steal our manners?
- Verbal restraint and verbal candour
- Playing it safe with silence
- Why people think we are disrespectful
- See beyond harsh language
- Why words hurt
- Two kinds of extremism
- Courage in the absence of danger?
- Fight today’s battles not yesterday’s battles
- The difference between cleverness and wisdom
- Taking responsibility for the effects of our speech
- Why sensitivity in speech is especially needed in the internet age
- Sensitivity in communicating superiority
- How to speak more effectively: Cross or Across?
- Gita 17.15 explained
- The power of words: be aware and beware
- Two aspects of compassion as seen through our speech
- When being truthful is helpful and when it isn’t
- Why all insensitivity is not equal
- How sensitivity differs from sentimentality
- How to become more sensitive
- When calling a spade a spade doesn’t help …
- How Krishna’s words demonstrate the discipline of speech that he recommends
- How we may overestimate the power of speech
- Why we may underestimate the power of words
- Why speaking effectively is as difficult as loving authentically
- When political correctness helps and when it harms
- How our speech becomes ineffective - 2
- How our speech becomes ineffective - 1
- Two ways to make our speech more effective
- How to speak an unpalatable truth?
- On words of wisdom: wisdom matters and so do words
- How to help others choose wisely?
- Are we committing violence with our mouth?
- What are we seeking when we are speaking?
- How to resolve arguments with our loved ones?
- Have we earned the right to criticize?
- Wrong to say others are wrong?
- Light is usually seen before warmth is felt but spiritual warmth frequently needs to be felt before spiritual light is seen
- We don’t owe our friends a positive response, but we do owe them a sensitive response
- Speak in a way that educates and engages not enrages and estranges
- To speak effectively learn to let go of what you think you are speaking and hear what others are hearing
- Our tongue is like a loaded gun that we always carry within us
- Don't forget to compliment those who complement you
- Opening the mouth without opening the mind helps neither the mouth nor the mind
- Words are not just vehicles of thought but also engines of thought
- To speak effectively, speak not just correctly, but also appropriately
- Unthinking words reflect an uncaring heart
- Anesthesia is meant to help heal sickness, not hide it
- Watch what you talk when you talk to yourself
- Speak to give people peace of mind, not a piece of your mind
- Focus not on the harsh truth, but on the gentle healing
- Speak because you have something to say, not because you have to say something
- To learn to speak well, learn when not to speak
- To use the truth for beating people on the head is to abuse the truth
- Don’t just tell it like it is – tell it like it can be
- Don’t just talk about the other – talk with the other
- Choose words that make the heart soar, not sore
- Speak not “to reveal the truth about others,” but to realize the truth about yourself
- When self-righteousness obscures rightness…
- Let our words be like windows, not walls
- Memorizing scripture doesn’t burden the head – it unburdens the heart
- Careless words can cause cureless wounds
- Chapter 17, Text 16
- Speaking our mind or speaking with our mind?
- The discipline of mind that leads to happiness
- The capacity to appreciate our blessings
- How gratitude brings happiness
- Two kinds of contentment — and how they are opposite
- Forcing ourselves to be grateful?
- Grateful for our weaknesses?
- Gratitude for the past
- Revising what we feel grateful for
- Greedy to be grateful
- Grab opportunities to express gratitude
- How to be grateful when things don’t go our way?
- Gratitude demanded is gratitude diminished
- Outer thanks inner greed — how gratitude may be subverted
- The pillow of gratitude
- Gratefully ambitious
- The healing power of gratitude
- Learning the language of gratitude
- Two obstacles to gratitude
- Two connections between gratitude and mental health
- Gratitude for the ordinary
- Gita 17.16 explained
- Facing losses but not feeling lost — the reorienting power of gratitude
- Is gratitude a state or a trait?
- What we do with our blessings
- Does gratitude decrease our motivation to make things better?
- How to feel grateful when we don’t feel grateful
- How not to cultivate gratitude
- Why counting our blessings is so transformational
- Why is it so difficult to feel grateful?
- Grateful even when we don’t feel full?
- How to deal with feelings of inferiority
- Two ways to deal with dissatisfaction
- When the mind complains about the shortage of enjoyable sense objects contemplate the shortage of enjoyment in the supposedly enjoyable sense objects
- Even if we are feeling miserable, that doesn't give us the right to make others miserable Gita 17.16
- The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions
- The mind overvalues things it doesn’t have and undervalues things it does have
- To be happy is possible to be happier than others is impossible
- No matter how bad things are we can always make them worse – we are never powerless
- Cultivation of satisfaction requires not the rejection of desire, but the selection of desire
- Purity reverses our mental gravity
- Mental silence is more defining than verbal silence
- Just as food adds to our physical weight, thoughts add to our mental weight
- To gain satisfaction, replace expectation with appreciation
- Don’t crave the feast in others’ plates – savor the feast in yours
- Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice
- How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?
- Chapter 17, Text 17
- Chapter 17, Text 18
- Chapter 17, Text 19
- Chapter 17, Text 20
- Chapter 17, Text 21
- Gita 17.21 explained
- Charity that expresses vanity ends in vanity
- Complete charity makes the receiver feel valued , not pitied
- Chapter 17, Text 22
- Chapter 17, Text 23
- Chapter 17, Text 24
- Chapter 17, Text 25
- Chapter 17, Text 26-27
- Chapter 17, Text 28
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