Radicalization still matters
What differentiates activism from radical activism is that activism may be constructive, but radical activism is almost always destructive. The word radical is becoming increasingly [...]
What differentiates activism from radical activism is that activism may be constructive, but radical activism is almost always destructive. The word radical is becoming increasingly [...]
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 [...]
Spirituality may seem to be like the losing side, but it is the ultimately winning side. When we start practicing spirituality, and especially when we [...]
Even if the world is materialistic and increasingly so, reality remains spiritual and eternally so. Sometimes when we see how materialistic the world is becoming, [...]
If we make everything negotiable, then we ourselves end up becoming negotiable. Life often requires negotiations, but if we don't have anything that is non-negotiable, [...]
If we can take a hard line on one thing, then we can take a hard line on other things too. We all sometimes feel [...]
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. [...]
The intelligence that entertains indiscriminate indulgence is bad. The intelligence that endorses such indulgence is worse. And the intelligence that espouses such indulgence is the [...]
The absence of ability is excusable. The absence of will isn't. Whenever something important is to be done, if someone is not able to do [...]
The difference between lack of ability and lack of will is found in situations of necessity, even emergency. When someone says that they can't do [...]
The point of celebrating is not escaping from work, but it is escaping to a more fulfilling kind of work. Whenever we celebrate success, we [...]
To be naive is bad but so is to be cynical, better to be intelligent. When we are interacting with people, we can be naive [...]
What some people offer as a compliment, others take as an insult. Generally speaking, when we compliment someone, we expect that person to be happy [...]
What is sensible and what feels desirable are frequently not the same thing – and intelligence means to value the desirable more than the desirable. [...]
We are happy to see some people go and we are happy to see that some people never go. In our lives, we often have [...]
What people find surprising tells us not just about the surprise but also about the people. When we interact with people, we often want to [...]
There are two kinds of people: people who never disappoint and people who never fail to disappoint. There are some people who always stay true [...]
When we are attached to worldly things, we can never have enough of them. No matter how much we crave and how much we slave, [...]
Patriotism is not meant to make us into cannon fodder at the summons of the power hungry. It is meant to inspire us to dedicate [...]
How we respond to bad news reflects not just how bad the news is but also how bad our view of the world is. Whenever [...]
Whenever we don't get something that our mind is infatuated with, we often find ourselves in a foul mood, where we devalue or even detest [...]