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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Inspiration Is Like Romance
“This process of covering up the arid loneliness is called inspiration. Inspiration then becomes a mere stimulation, and as with all stimulation, it soon brings its own boredom and insensitivity. So we go from one inspiration, simulation, to another, each bringing its own disappointment and weariness; thus the mind-heart loses
If You Have More, You Can Do More
“Give to the weak, for there all the gift is needed. If the Brahmin is born clever, he can educate himself without help. If the others are not born clever, let them have all the teaching and teachers they want. This is justice and reason as I understand it.” —
The Underrated Superpower of Saying No
“Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in well or woe and never adjust them to others’ ‘fads’ through the greed of getting supporters. You’re Ātman is the support of the
How To Strengthen Your Willpower
Many of us have desires: to have a startup or a YouTube channel, to get rich by investing money, or to go on a vacation. We think about the desire a lot, but never get around to working on it. Or we start, but stop in almost no time. The
Live by an Inner Scorecard
“The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. Instead, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use is polishing up the outside when there is no inside?” — Swami Vivekananda Truth. Justice. Kindness. Virtue. Education builds these traits in us. Sadly, we ignore them
The Key to Inner Transformation
“If you who have created this struggle and suffering do not change fundamentally, will systems, conferences, blueprints bring about order and goodwill? Is it not imperative that you transform yourself, for what you are the world is?” — J. Krishnamurti Social media should be regulated to protect our mental health
The Root Cause of All Our Problems
“Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to another. Let the mind be cheerful, but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.” — Swami Vivekananda “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit
When Should You Trust Your Gut?
“Who is there to tell you what to do? We have this mentality that I must have someone to tell me what to do. Psychologically, why should I accept what somebody else says, when I realize that I am the rest of mankind? That mankind is me. The ‘me’ is
Why Do You Do What You Do?
When Valmiki heard that Hanuman had written a version of the Ramayana, he went to the forest in search of it. There, beside Hanuman on a banana leaf, the sage found the most beautiful rendition of the epic. “Who will read my Ramayana now?”, he wept. Hearing this, Hanuman popped
The Real Purpose of Education
“We want education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s feet.” — Swami Vivekananda The conventional educational system, while having its benefits, is not man-making, but based on negation, Swamiji says. The first thing a