The Simplest Formula for Success
“The real difficulty is always in ourselves, not in our surroundings. There are three things necessary in order to make men invincible, Will, Disinterestedness, and Faith.” — Sri Aurobindo Do you remember the last time a passion project of yours failed? Maybe you wanted to make art, learn a new subject, or start a business. […]
Let Go of Fear and Doubt
“Everything in this life is fraught with fear. It is renunciation alone that makes one fearless.” — Swāmi Vivekānanda At age 16, Ghanshyam Das (GD) Birla set up his jute trading company in India. Come the First World War, the demand for jute soared, and GD and his family members made a handsome fortune. After […]
How to Change The World
“We feel, if only there were a good leader, the world would be perfectly right. So we are looking to leaders and not to the true function of individuality. When you are trying to understand true individuality you are bound to cooperate, because that is part of it.” — J. Krishnamurti The Butterfly Effect states […]
What A Hostile Herd Means
“The poor world, how often it has been cheated! The more the sansār, that is, the worldly aspect of life, looks at any growing movement with the eyes of suspicion, or, even better still, presents it to a semi-hostile front, so much the better it is for the movement. If there is any truth this […]
Resistance Weakens Willpower, Acceptance Strengthens It
“Will is not strengthened by change. It is weakened and enslaved by it. But we must always be absorbing. Will grows stronger by absorption.” — Swami Vivekananda Your team gets a new manager. Your best friend since childhood moves to a different state. The weather turns unexpectedly hot or cold. Such events are enough to […]
The Shortcut Is Often the Longer Route
“Labour, however vast, ought not to have any terrors for a scholar, still less for a Hindu scholar; yet before one engages in it, one requires to be assured that the game is worth the candle.” — Sri Aurobindo A group of scholars intended to study an epic of the Bhāratas written by Krishna of […]
Work Can Set You Free
“All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.” – Swami Vivekananda Svādhyāya means two things: studying […]