How to Stop Overthinking
“You cannot discard [your memories]. But what you can do is meet your next experience wholly; then you will see those past memories come to action, and then is the time to meet and dissolve them.” — J. Krishnamurti Sadhguru asks the question: “Are you working from memory or from awareness?” Memory is important, else […]
Embrace Change Through Tiny Actions
“When you realize there is no such thing as comfort, no such thing as security, either in possession of things or of ideas, then you will face life as it is, not with the background of intense longing for comfort.” — J. Krishnamurti “A ship is always safe at shore, but that’s not what it’s […]
Think Using First Principles
“To most people, thinking is but a reaction. . . Then it is no longer thinking, for then it is uncreative. Most people say that they think but are blindly following their reactions; they have certain standards, certain ideas, according to which they act.” — J. Krishnamurti Often, our lives are just imitations of others. […]
The Real Meaning of Criticism
“If your attitude is one of [passive] acceptance, you live in fear of criticism, and when doubt arises, as it must arise, you carefully and sedulously destroy it. Yet it is only through doubt, through criticism, that you can fulfill; and the purpose of life is to fulfill, not to accumulate, not to achieve.” — […]
The Goal-Free Method of Learning
When we face a problem, most of us resort to the means-end analysis. We compare the current state to the goal state and do what will move us closer to the goal. The challenge with this strategy is that you could get stuck in a loop where, if you find that a tool works, you […]
We Don’t Need More Tolerance
“Because our minds are so acutely developed in cunningness, in subtlety, in selfishness, we are forcing ourselves to be tolerant or love one another, or help another, serve another, all intellectual things. Whereas, if you really love with your mind as well as your heart, with your whole being. . . you are, therefore you […]