We don’t have to outweigh our urges; we just have to out-wait them
We don’t have to outweigh our urges; we just have to out-wait them Suppose a thief is trying to barge into our house by breaking [...]
To keep fighting battles that are already lost is to be lost
To keep fighting battles that are already lost is to be lost Suppose in a cricket match a batsman had a great opportunity to score [...]
Learn to be comfortable with feeling uncomfortable
Learn to be comfortable with feeling uncomfortable Life often makes us uncomfortable, through stress, boredom, overwork, loneliness, sickness and so forth. On facing such discomfort, [...]
Even when our eyes are full of tears we can still choose to be all ears
Even when our eyes are full of tears we can still choose to be all ears Sometimes, life afflicts us so grievously that we feel [...]
When life hurts don’t let the mind increase the hurt
When life hurts don’t let the mind increase the hurt Suppose we fall on our arm and hurt it. If someone starts hitting the hurt [...]
Even if we have to live with pain we don’t have to live in pain
To live with pain means that pain is present within our consciousness; to live in pain means that pain dominates our consciousness, infecting our whole [...]