You Are A Citizen, Not A Subject
“We have told the young men of our country, ‘Build up your own industries, build up your own schools and colleges, settle your own disputes. You are always told that you are not fit for self-government. Show by example that you are. Show it by developing self-government through self-help and not by depending on others.’” […]
Do Not Add to Misery
“Never is misery undeserved… there has never been any evil for which I did not pave the way with my own hands… Every blow you have received came to you because you prepared yourselves for it. You did half and the external world did the other half.” — Swami Vivekananda When we’re stuck in a […]
Will You Die As a Statistic?
“Saying ‘I can’ won’t do. Show me through action what you can do. . . Get up, and put your shoulders to the wheel–how long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones?” — Swami Vivekananda […]
How To End the Struggle Within You
“In moments of great creativity, in moments of great beauty, there is utter tranquility; in these moments there is absence of self with all its conflicts; it is this negation, the highest form of thinking, that is essential for creative being.” — J. Krishnamurti At age 18, Narendranath Datta approached Ramakrishna Paramhansa and said, “Can […]
The Biggest Sins in Life
“To place before himself a great object and then shrink in the name of expediency from the expenditure and sacrifice called for its pursuit is not prudence but ineptitude.” — Sri Aurobindo We all have dreams. Learning to code, creating content on our passions, exploring the world, becoming entrepreneurs… but most of us will spend […]
Don’t Be a Dead Tree Stump
“If we can approach our problem without judging, without identifying, then the causes that lie beneath it are revealed. If we would understand a problem, we must set aside our desires, accumulated experience, pattern of thought. The difficulty is not in the problem itself but in our approach to it. The scars of yesterday prevent […]
How to Live The Good Life
“I have read that a deer has to run on the average sixty to seventy miles every day, because it is frightened. . . We are in a worse plight than the deer. If the deer gets enough grass it is satisfied. But we are always multiplying our wants. . . We have become so […]
Conflict Makes Us Delusional
“In the midst of conflict there is no understanding at all, only a blind struggle. Conflict leads to apathy, to delusion. We must go outside the pattern of duality for creative, revolutionary understanding.” — J. Krishnamurti When an argument between partners goes out of control, an outsider is needed to resolve it—a therapist, a common […]
Love Makes the World Go Round
“Let your love go to all, whatever they do to you. A blind man cannot see color, so how can we see evil unless it is in us?” — Swami Vivekananda The most beautiful emotion we can experience is love. It can inspire us to do incredible things. In fact, medieval theology believed that love […]
You Are Not The Mind or Body
“Just as the all-pervading ether, being subtle, is not affected, (tainted or contaminated by anything), even so, the Self pervading the whole body is not tainted.”
— Bhagavad Gita