Proving point or improving viewpoint
Proving our point is counterproductive if we are not improving our viewpoint. Sometimes when we know that someone else is wrong and we go about [...]
See beyond harsh language
Just because we don't endorse someone's language doesn't mean that we can't empathize with their feelings. Sometimes some people express their concerns in language that [...]
Why people see the same thing differently
What some people consider as clarity of vision, others consider as lack of vision. The Bhagavad Gita talks about how our vision of the world [...]
Same metaphor opposite interpretations
Ocean metaphors for liberation are used by both impersonalists and personalists, but in significantly different ways. Impersonalists hold that our consciousness is like a drop, [...]
Think ocean think big
An ocean metaphor for meaningful life and successful death is given in the Bhagavad Gita 11.28 and 29, where it states that the death of [...]
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 [...]
Two kinds of extremism
Two kinds of extremism: Extremism can be in thought and in action. Extremism in thought is often called exclusivism, where people believe, for example, if [...]
Things work together for good
Things work together for good, even if those things individually don't feel good. When an expert cook is cooking some delicacy, often they may start [...]
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 [...]
When age brings realization and when it brings frustration
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, [...]
Fear looks backward faith looks upward
When we are overcome by fear, then we constantly replay the bad things that have happened to us in the past, and we dread that [...]
Chronic pessimism is covered atheism
When things go wrong or even when we do something wrong, we might start feeling negative emotions rising within us; that's an understandable response to [...]
Is stating that life is tough pessimistic?
Is stating that life is tough pessimistic? - Suppose a boxer is playing a boxing match where they are getting battered. Suppose they tell their [...]