Who Is Steering Your Ship?

control your emotions

“When a bubble is rising from the bottom of the lake, we do not see it… it’s only when it bursts and makes a ripple that we know it is there. We shall only be successful in grappling with the waves when we can get a hold of them in their fine causes… To control […]

Change How You View Yourself

how you view yourself

“External things furnish us with suggestions, over which we project our own ideals and make our objects. The wicked see this world as a perfect hell, and the good as a perfect heaven. Lovers see this world as full of love, and haters as full of hatred; fighters see nothing but strife, and the peaceful […]

The Model To Calm Your Mind

how to calm your mind

“Each time we suppress hatred, or a feeling of anger, it is so much good energy stored up in our favour; that piece of energy will be converted into the higher powers.” — Swami Vivekananda How many times were you consumed by a nasty thing that someone said or did to you? On the outside, […]

Be a Lion, Not a Dog

a lion and a dog

“Fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that breeds misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.” — Swami Vivekananda Spiritual guru Dada J P Vaswani always held that peace is our true nature, and when we drift from it, […]

First Control the Mind, Then Liberate It

how to strengthen your mind

“The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire… After the desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think of […]

Why You Should Focus Less on Others

how to focus less on others

“Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavor to accomplish it. That’s a surer way than taking up others’ ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish… All the men and women, in any society, are not of the same mind, capacity, or of the same power to do things; they must have […]

When You Want To Go Far In Life…

how to go far in life

“You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior.” – Swami Vivekananda On the cricket field, MS Dhoni was always calm, even if the opposition seemed in control. No outbursts of emotion, no rush, no […]

Strengthen Your Mind

how to strengthen your mind

“A word is uttered, and we do not wait to consider its meaning; we jump to a conclusion immediately… the weaker the man, the less restraint he has… When you’re angry, reason out how some news is throwing your mind into Vritti.” — Swami Vivekananda Your mother-in-law says a few mean words. A colleague blames […]

There Is No Textbook on Life

how to be open minded

“You cling to your own limitations and these little worldly ideas may be your highest ideal. . . But there are others who have seen the truth and cannot rest in these limitations, who have done with these things and want to get beyond . . . Why do you want to bind them down […]

First Commit to the Process

commit to the process

“If you want to become an astronomer and sit down and cry ‘Astronomy! Astronomy!’, it will not come… You must go to an observatory, take a telescope, study the stars and planets… Every science must have its own methods… The sages of all countries, ages, pure and unselfish men, declare they’ve found some truth higher […]