Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice
“The knowing one must not despise the condition of those who are ignorant, nor should the knowing one destroy their faith in their own particular method, but by proper action lead them to show them the path to come to where he stands.” — Bhagavad Gita
9 Personal Reflections on Self-Improvement
Well, here they are. 1. Use entertainment as a reward, not an escape. You have plenty of control over what you do and how you use your time. It’s when you give that control to others, when you only do what they want, that boredom sets in. Work becomes meaningless, self-improvement plans take a backseat, […]
Don’t Think of Yourself Like This
“Put yourself to work and you will find tremendous power coming to you that you will find it hard to bear. Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instils into the heart the strength of a lion.” — Swami Vivekananda
Arguing Will Not Make the World a Better Place
“Thinking has not solved our problems. The clever ones, the philosophers, the scholars, the political leaders, have not solved any of our human problems—which are the relationship between you and another, between you and myself.” — J. Krishnamurti Kunal Kamra’s tweet about OLA Electric’s poor customer service caused the company’s market valuation to tank. Almost […]
The Key to Personal Growth: Die Every Night, Be Reborn Every Morning
For most of my life, I’ve been angry. Because I knew I was capable of doing more, but I couldn’t prove it. To myself more than to others. What was slowing my personal growth? Among other things, the baggage of the past. It contains a few items, the dominant ones of which are memories. I’ve […]
How to Fuel Self-Growth? Remove The 3 Obstacles To Learning
“Life is something that you listen to, that you understand from moment to moment without accumulating experience… Like the river, life is running, swift, volatile, never still; and when you meet life with the heavy burden of memory, naturally you are never in contact with life.” — J. Krishnamurti
7 Indian Philosophy Books Recommended For Beginners
At some juncture, we have asked ourselves, “What is the meaning of life? Why does anything matter if I’m going to die in the end? What is the point of all this struggle?” The point of life, according to Indian (Indic) sages, is to give our struggle meaning. We can do this either by leaving […]
How To Build Self-Confidence? Get Better at What You Do
“We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. . . If there is no pedestal on which you’ve put yourself, how can there be any fall?” — J. Krishnamurti
Don’t Dream of Winning It, Train For It
“How can a person who is desirous of ease and comfort acquire knowledge? How can a student desirous of learning be comfortable? A person who desires only comfort has to give us learning and a student desirous of learning must give up comfort.” — Vidur Niti
How to Stop Doomscrolling
“We are not only conditioned by environment, but we are the environment—we are not something apart from it. Our thoughts and responses are conditioned by the values which society, of which we are a part, has imposed upon us.” — J. Krishnamurti