Don’t Fear, Don’t Hesitate, Don’t Worry
“The release [from sin and evil] does not come by a sudden miracle, it comes by a process of purification and these things are a part of the process. They are like the dust that rises in the clouds when a room long uncleaned is at last swept. Though the dust seems to choke you, yet persevere, mā śucah.” — Sri Aurobindo
Why We Fail To Detach
“Put yourself with all your heart and strength in God’s hands… To those who demand from him, God gives what they demand, but to those who give themselves and demand nothing, he gives everything that they might otherwise have asked or needed and in addition he gives himself and the spontaneous boons of his love.” — Sri Aurobindo
How To Turn Adversity Into Opportunity?
“It is sufficient at first to have full force of the faith, for we cannot from the beginning of the Yoga have full illumination. Then, however, we err & stumble, our force of faith will sustain us. When we cannot see, we shall know that God withholds the light, imposing on us error as a […]
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
You Are Killing Your Creativity
“Organized society takes away individual responsibility; it makes him conform. And society, the state, becomes more important than the individual; through bureaucracy, the boredom of office and routine, the individual creative responsibility is destroyed.” — J. Krishnamurti
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 […]
Take One Step
“There are many things to be done, but means are wanting. . .. We have brains, but no hands.” — Swami Vivekananda Learning new skills, reading books, becoming fitter, achieving financial independence, traveling the world – there are countless goals we want to pursue. But days turn into months, then years, and we’re no closer […]
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 courage and endurance.” — Sri […]
How To Walk Away From Bad Decisions
“The greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something and put our whole energy on it—perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that it is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still we cannot tear ourselves away from […]
Why Are You Afraid of Death?
“For to him who is born death is indeed certain, and to him who dies birth is certain. Therefore you should not grieve for the inevitable.”
— Bhagavad Gita