What Decides Who You Become?
“Education . . . may be described as a development of faculty, not accumulation of words, or as a training of individuals to will rightly and efficiently.” — Swami Vivekananda
When Is Bending Justified?
“Trees bend low with the burden of ripening fruit; it is the barren tree that often lifts its head high in an empty boast.” — Paramahansa Yogananada
The Best Way To Criticize Something
“The knowing one must not despise the condition of those who are ignorant, nor should the knowing one destroy the faith of the ignorant in their own particular method, but by proper action, lead them and show them the path to come to where he stands.” — Bhagavad Gita
Persistent or Stubborn?
“Where there is a want there cannot be discernment. You crave happiness; you look for means to get it. Someone offers you the means. Now your mind-heart is so blinded by the intense desire for blindness that it is incapable of discernment. Though you may think you’re analyzing and examining the means offered to you, yet this deep craving for satisfaction, happiness, security prevents clarity of comprehension. So where there is a want there cannot be true discernment.” — J. Krishnamurti
A Tool Is Only As Good as Its User
“For a haughty person, education, wealth and family reputation are tools of arrogance. The same education, wealth, and family reputation serve as tools of self-restraint for a person of wisdom.” — Vidur Niti The son of a celebrity gets arrested for possession of drugs, while the son of another celebrity wins a gold medal at […]
Nature Has to Relent
“The smaller and more selfish I make myself, the more my fear. If a man thinks he is a little nothing, fear will surely come upon him. And the less you think of yourself an insignificant person, the less fear there will be for you.” — Swami Vivekananda
Why You Must Discover Your Individuality
“Nationalist thinkers have always urged the necessity of realizing our separateness from other nations and living to ourselves for the present, not in order to shut out humanity, but that we may get that individual strength, unity and wholeness which will help us to live as a nation for humanity. A man must be strong […]
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 […]
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 universe – whose support do […]