Wisdom
Here are all the articles — quotes from the wise along with short commentary on topics like building character, discovering purpose and happiness, love, making conscious choices, and more.
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Every Mistake Is a Chance To Grow
“Do not be miserable. Do not repent! What is done is done. If you burn yourself, [take the consequences] . . . We make mistakes; what of that?” — Swami Vivekananda Someone you trusted hurt you. Overconfidence in a situation led to a terrible loss for you. Or you did
The Antidote to Self-Destructive Behavior
“We deny that the individual life is as sacred as national life; the smaller cannot be so sacred as the greater, self cannot be so sacred as others, and to say that it sacred quite for its own purposes is to deify selfishness. Our lives are useful only in proportion
How To Become Truly Rich
“What is the use of such [intrinsic] knowledge? In the first place, knowledge itself is the highest reward, and secondly, there is also utility in it. It will take away all our misery. When, by analyzing his own mind, man comes face to face with something which is never destroyed,
Are You a Talker or a Doer?
“’This is said, and that is said…’‘What do you say, my friend?’‘I say nothing.’ [He quotes] everybody else’s thought; but he thinks nothing. If this is education, what is lunacy? Look at all the men who wrote! … Those modern writers, not two sentences their own. All quotations…” — Swami
Don’t Take “No” for an Answer
“It seems to be nothing but calamity and defeat and it is only afterwards that the light of reason looking backwards is able by the illumination of subsequent events to understand His doings. Therefore we must have an invincible faith or else the calamities will be too great for our
How to Achieve Sattva
“Brightness in the face, undaunted enthusiasm in the heart, and tremendous activity – these result from Sattva; whereas idleness, inordinate attachment, and sleep are signs of Tamas.” — Swami Vivekananda When you work, when you love, when you do your duty, do it for the sake of it. Give it
You Don’t Need Permission or Instructions
“An association is not a thing which cannot exist unless we have a Chairman and a Vice Chairman and a Secretary. An association is not a thing which cannot meet unless it has a fixed meeting place. Association. . . depends upon the feeling and the force within us. Association
Without Uncertainty There Can Be No Growth
People get diagnosed with clinical conditions like PTSD and ADHD. But lately, a trend has begun where people start applying such terms to themselves without medical proof. We’re anxious about the future because we didn’t do well in our exams, but we call it PTSD. Staring at our phones and
The Easiest Thing To Do
When the government introduced GST, it was criticized for its slipshod implementing. When a food-delivery app wanted to introduce a new delivery system, it was torn to shreds. When a person wants to try something new, her friends give her one hundred reasons why it won’t work. As soon as
The Will Is Everything
“Who can make us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. Take the hand away and there is light; the light exists always for us.” — Swami Vivekananda In the movie Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne tries to justify why his father