Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17
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- On the value of judgments and the judgment of values
- We are shaped not just by our ideological faith but also by our functional faith
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- The God of terrorists is not the God of transcendentalists
- We make our faith and then our faith makes us
- Our existence and our faith are related causally, constitutionally and consequentially
- The choices you make make you
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- Are we courting suffering with the tongue?
- Those who let the culture fill their brain with junk beliefs, fill their belly with junk food
- Eat food made of plants, not food made in plants
- Delusion makes eating a life-threatening activity
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- Careless words can cause cureless wounds
- Memorizing scripture doesn’t burden the head – it unburdens the heart
- Let our words be like windows, not walls
- When self-righteousness obscures rightness…
- Speak not “to reveal the truth about others,” but to realize the truth about yourself
- Choose words that make the heart soar, not sore
- Don’t just talk about the other – talk with the other
- Don’t just tell it like it is – tell it like it can be
- To use the truth for beating people on the head is to abuse the truth
- To learn to speak well, learn when not to speak
- Speak because you have something to say, not because you have to say something
- Focus not on the harsh truth, but on the gentle healing
- Speak to give people peace of mind, not a piece of your mind
- Watch what you talk when you talk to yourself
- Anesthesia is meant to help heal sickness, not hide it
- Unthinking words reflect an uncaring heart
- To speak effectively, speak not just correctly, but also appropriately
- Words are not just vehicles of thought, but also engines of thought
- Opening the mouth without opening the mind helps neither the mouth nor the mind
- Don't forget to compliment those who complement you
- Our tongue is like a loaded gun that we always carry within us
- To speak effectively, learn to let go of what you think you are speaking and hear what others are hearing
- Speak in a way that educates and engages, not enrages and estranges
- We don’t owe our friends a positive response, but we do owe them a sensitive response
- Light is usually seen before warmth is felt, but spiritual warmth frequently needs to be felt before spiritual light is seen
- Wrong to say others are wrong?
- Have we earned the right to criticize?
- How to resolve arguments with our loved ones?
- What are we seeking when we are speaking?
- Are we committing violence with our mouth?
- How to help others choose wisely?
- On words of wisdom: wisdom matters and so do words
- How to speak an unpalatable truth?
- Two ways to make our speech more effective
- How our speech becomes ineffective - 1
- How our speech becomes ineffective - 2
- When political correctness helps and when it harms
- Why speaking effectively is as difficult as loving authentically
- Why we may underestimate the power of words
- How we may overestimate the power of speech
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- How long will we hide ourselves from ourselves?
- Satisfaction is not just a condition but also a choice
- Don’t crave the feast in others’ plates – savor the feast in yours
- To gain satisfaction, replace expectation with appreciation
- Just as food adds to our physical weight, thoughts add to our mental weight
- Mental silence is more defining than verbal silence
- Purity reverses our mental gravity
- Cultivation of satisfaction requires not the rejection of desire, but the selection of desire
- No matter how bad things are, we can always make them worse – we are never powerless
- To be happy is possible, to be happier than others is impossible
- The mind overvalues things it doesn’t have and undervalues things it does have
- The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions
- Even if we are feeling miserable, that doesn't give us the right to make others miserable Gita 17.16
- When the mind complains about the shortage of enjoyable sense objects, contemplate the shortage of enjoyment in the supposedly enjoyable sense objects
- Two ways to deal with dissatisfaction
- How to deal with feelings of inferiority
- Grateful even when we don’t feel full?
- Why is it so difficult to feel grateful?
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