Chapter 02

Spirituality may seem to be like the losing side, but it is the ultimately winning side. When we start practicing spirituality, and especially when we [...]

If we make everything negotiable, then we ourselves end up becoming negotiable. Life often requires negotiations, but if we don't have anything that is non-negotiable, [...]

If we can take a hard line on one thing, then we can take a hard line on other things too. We all sometimes feel [...]

We are often taught that freedom is the right to pursue what we want. But is that definition of freedom complete? What if the things [...]

Discouragement comes not because we fail at something, but because we let the failure redefine us as a failure. When we attempt something and it [...]

The way to overcome grieving is not by leaving the past, but by living in the present and tapping the doors that the present opens. [...]

Some people see warnings as a sign to stop what they are doing and others see the same warnings as signs that they should keep [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Resist the temptation to quit on ourselves by recalling the Lord who never quits on us. When striving for self-improvement and facing repeated lapses and [...]

To think that we are indispensable is an illusion. But to think that we are dispensable is also an illusion. Whenever we have some significant [...]

When we strive to practice spirituality and gain the higher taste of spiritual happiness, we sometimes feel that this happiness is much smaller than the [...]

We may often think that as we grow older, we will also grow in wisdom, that we will understand the futility of our lower, material, [...]

The easiest way to deal with temptation is to not deal with temptation. Whenever we are faced with temptation, especially temptations that we tend to [...]

Even if we can't get back lost time, we can make up for lost time. Sometimes we may miss some opportunities in the past, or [...]