Suppose we go to a hotel to eat a full meal and find that the delicacy we wanted is provided only in limited quantity. Our [...]
Suppose we try something creative for the first time and are unsure about the quality of the product: “Is it good? Is it great? Is [...]
Suppose a doctor is asked to travel to an epidemic zone to treat patients. To take up such an assignment, they would need to have [...]
Suppose we have some knowledge that will be helpful or valuable for others. When we speak to share it with them, we sometimes find that [...]
When something goes wrong in our lives, we may feel hurt, irritated, dejected. If we give in to bouts of self-pity and start repeating our [...]
Suppose we see someone driving a Porsche and looking prosperous. That sight may make us burn with envy and resentment: “Why do they get to [...]
During our life, we constantly make choices. Even when we know that our choices are consequential, we may not realize how consequential they are. Why? [...]
While communicating with others, we are often surprised, even shocked by how they misunderstand us: “I spoke something so obvious; why are they outraged? What [...]
Suppose we are selling something to buy something in exchange. If we undervalued what we had and overvalued what we didn’t have, we would end [...]
Suppose we have a powerful, loaded gun. We would be extremely careful that it doesn’t get fired accidentally. Scarily, we all have a powerful, loaded [...]
We all have painful inadequacies that make us dependent on others who complement us. Indeed, almost all of life’s important responsibilities require us to work [...]
We all want to be happy, but we often tie our happiness to certain conceptions. One such common conception is that we will become happy [...]
We all have had to sometimes bite our words. On seeing or hearing something, we made a snap judgment and spoke words that we later [...]
Sometimes, life puts us in so many difficulties that we feel utterly powerless. That feeling can drown us in despair, self-pity, resentment and even suicidal [...]
We often think of words as tools for expressing our thoughts. When we expand our vocabulary by memorizing new words, we usually desire to express [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 17.2 śrī-bhagavān uvāca tri-vidhā [...]
When a doctor prescribes a medicine to a patient, they consider not just the patient’s malady, but also the patient’s case history. Sometimes, if a [...]
We often think of ourselves as our body or at least think of the body as ours. When we get spiritual knowledge, we understand that [...]
Nonbelievers sometimes demonize believers, highlighting religious violence. What such demonization overlooks is that the label believers is unhelpfully huge. It encompasses people who brainwash children [...]
Some people say how we live is all that matters, what we believe doesn’t matter. Actually however, the relationship between our life and our faith [...]
Our words are like a mirror that give others peeks into our hearts. If the mirror is unclean, it distorts whatever it reflects. Similarly, if [...]
