Celebrating success
The point of celebrating is not escaping from work, but it is escaping to a more fulfilling kind of work. Whenever we celebrate success, we [...]
How to encourage others
Encouraging others is not about enticing them with a better future. It is about enabling them to realize and release the potential that is entrapped [...]
Being patient and persistent
Just because a good thing does not happen now, does not mean that it will never happen. It just means that we need to be [...]
The only person who can improve our life
The only person who can make our life better is we ourselves. Kind-hearted people can provide us opportunities to make our life better. God can [...]
When to burn bridges right away
Some bridges should never be burned and some bridges need to be immediately burned. Burning bridges is an idiom which implies that we are going [...]
Our mysterious relationship with ourselves
Humility means to acknowledge that we are not as mysterious as we think; and curiosity means to acknowledge that we are more mysterious than we [...]
Stop transmitting your pain
Just because we have had a difficult life does not give us the right to make others' life difficult. When we are going through difficulties [...]
Why some people love to be gossiped about
Some people love to be the topic of gossip and that reveals more about their own mentality than about the gossiper's mentality. Generally speaking, we [...]
When losing peace of mind is good
Lessons that disturbed our peace of mind may well take us toward peace of the heart. Sometimes, we may value peace to such an extent [...]
Unnecessary inner baggage
What some people considered to be essential luggage, others considered to be dispensable baggage. When we are traveling, we often pack a lot of things [...]
Two problems with forced compliance
Maintaining discipline is not about crushing people who have opposite opinions, it is about communicating how we all have a shared interest that subordinates our [...]
Why we fail in improving ourselves
Why we often fail in our attempts at self-improvement is because we are tricked by our mind into aiming for instant improvement and then we [...]
Resisting the mind’s myopia
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 [...]
Why change is challenging
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 [...]
Seeing encouragement amid discouragement
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 [...]
How much we improve
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 [...]
How to get the will to say no
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 [...]
What are we saying no to
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 [...]
Protecting ourselves from a bad attitude
Just as we wouldn't choose to live with someone with a bad attitude, why should we tolerate our own bad attitude? Imagine living with a [...]
Graduating in the university of adversity
Graduating in the University of Adversity. The universe is a university, and in this, the subject that we learn is adversity. The Bhagavad Gita states [...]
Standard of longing, not standard of living
Happiness comes not by improving our standard of living but by improving our standard of longing. The whole world is centered on economic development, and [...]