How to make discipline easier
Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that if we want to achieve [...]
Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that if we want to achieve [...]
How to make discipline easier Just because discipline involves enduring poison, that doesn't mean we can't make the poison lesser. The Bhagavad Gita states that [...]
The mind often makes us feed the very people who are feeding us poison. Suppose in real life, we were offering abundant and expensive and [...]
The price of self-transformation is the readiness to be hard on ourselves. We all have traits about us that we know are harmful for us. [...]
Doing something because it is difficult is a healthy way of ensuring that we grow, provided that the difficult thing helps us grow. Generally we [...]
Attachment to happiness is often the greatest obstacle to happiness. To be happy, be ready to be unhappy. We all long for happiness, but often [...]
Things work together for good, even if those things individually don't feel good. When an expert cook is cooking some delicacy, often they may start [...]
Not everything wholesome is awesome, and not everything awesome is wholesome. We are often attracted to things that feel good, even if they're not actually [...]
Suppose we are working on an important project, and we have a clear vision of how that project will be executed most efficiently and effectively. [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 18.37 yat tad agre [...]
Suppose someone is trapped in a dark maze-like dungeon. After wandering for a long time, they finally find an opening. But as they near the [...]
When we face a huge problem, we may feel overwhelmed: “How can I ever tackle this?” What makes a problem seem overwhelming? Frequently, our perception [...]
We don’t like trouble. To try to avoid problems reflects not only a sound survival instinct, but also an alert intelligence. For example, if we [...]
Suppose a person is suffering from a disease and is feeling gloomy. Suppose they assure themselves, “I am alright.” Such words may trigger some positive [...]
Suppose a disease weakens us and kills our appetite. If we are provided a healing and energizing medicine, we don’t have to feel hungry to [...]
Suppose we are working in customer support and a disgruntled customer is speaking with us rudely, even obnoxiously. Still, we may have to plaster a [...]
When we try to follow moral standards to live purely, we sometimes feel harassed by temptations that keep coming upon us. And if we compare [...]
The future can be better than the present and we can play a part in bringing about that future — this hope empowers us to [...]
When someone complains too much about how hard things are, they are sometimes told to grow up. What does that mean? It means to understand [...]
The word ‘interests’ can refer either to the things that we find interesting or to the things that are beneficial and rewarding for us, as [...]
When people face sudden disaster or death, they often realize that they have wasted so much of their life on unimportant things while neglecting important [...]