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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How to Stop Overthinking
“You cannot discard [your memories]. But what you can do is meet your next experience wholly; then you will see those past memories come to action, and then is the time to meet and dissolve them.” — J. Krishnamurti Sadhguru asks the question: “Are you working from memory or from
Always Study Philosophy
“‘Fools alone say that work and philosophy are different, not the learned.’ The learned know that, though apparently different from each other, they at last lead to the same goal of human perfection.” — Swami Vivekananda Rajat Gupta was the first foreign-born Managing Director of McKinsey & Company. He was
Train Your Mind To Become Steady
“What is practice? The attempt to restrain the mind in the Chitta form, to prevent it from going out into waves.” — Swami Vivekananda When you started learning how to drive or how to use Excel, you probably felt incompetent. But the more you practiced, the better you got. Until
Give This Moment Your All
“The secret to work is this: Let the end and the means be joined into one. When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.” — Swami Vivekananda
How To Gain Experience as a Fresher
“The University cannot and does not pretend to complete a man’s education; it merely gives some materials to his hand or points out certain paths he may tread, and it says to him,—“Here are the materials I have given into your hands, it is for you to make of them
How To Do Your Duty
“Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; it is continuous friction otherwise.” — Swami Vivekananda Can you do your duty as a parent if you don’t love your child? Can you do your duty as an author if you don’t love
The Underrated Trait That Makes Life Enjoyable
“How do we know that the mind has become concentrated? Because the idea of time will vanish. The more time passes unnoticed, the more concentrated we are.” – Swami Vivekananda Open Instagram and before you know it, an hour has gone by. Watch one episode on Netflix and before you
Resistance Weakens Willpower, Acceptance Strengthens It
“Will is not strengthened by change. It is weakened and enslaved by it. But we must always be absorbing. Will grows stronger by absorption.” — Swami Vivekananda Your team gets a new manager. Your best friend since childhood moves to a different state. The weather turns unexpectedly hot or cold.
Understand Fully How Things Work
“There are three elements necessary to correct reasoning, first, the correctness of facts or conclusions that I start from, secondly, the completeness as well as accuracy of the data I start from, thirdly, the elimination of other possible or impossible conclusions from the same facts.” — Sri Aurobindo In our
Embrace Change Through Tiny Actions
“When you realize there is no such thing as comfort, no such thing as security, either in possession of things or of ideas, then you will face life as it is, not with the background of intense longing for comfort.” — J. Krishnamurti “A ship is always safe at shore,