Empower Yourself

Krishna's revelation of the Bhagavad Gita in its conclusion is private, not secret. When Krishna at the end of the Gita states that this knowledge [...]

Patient resolve is far more transformational than impotent rage. Whenever we see that something is wrong, in outside us or even inside us, we may [...]

Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that if we want to achieve [...]

How to make discipline easier Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that [...]

What differentiates activism from radical activism is that activism may be constructive, but radical activism is almost always destructive. The word radical is becoming increasingly [...]

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 [...]

Even if the world is materialistic and increasingly so, reality remains spiritual and eternally so. Sometimes when we see how materialistic the world is becoming, [...]

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 [...]

The price of self-transformation is the readiness to be hard on ourselves. We all have traits about us that we know are harmful for us. [...]

The intelligence that entertains indiscriminate indulgence is bad. The intelligence that endorses such indulgence is worse. And the intelligence that espouses such indulgence is the [...]

The absence of ability is excusable. The absence of will isn't. Whenever something important is to be done, if someone is not able to do [...]

The difference between lack of ability and lack of will is found in situations of necessity, even emergency. When someone says that they can't do [...]

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 [...]

To be naive is bad but so is to be cynical, better to be intelligent. When we are interacting with people, we can be naive [...]

What some people offer as a compliment, others take as an insult. Generally speaking, when we compliment someone, we expect that person to be happy [...]

What is sensible and what feels desirable are frequently not the same thing – and intelligence means to value the desirable more than the desirable. [...]

We are happy to see some people go and we are happy to see that some people never go. In our lives, we often have [...]

What people find surprising tells us not just about the surprise but also about the people. When we interact with people, we often want to [...]

There are two kinds of people: people who never disappoint and people who never fail to disappoint. There are some people who always stay true [...]