Even if we are feeling miserable, that doesn’t give us the right to make others miserable Gita 17.16
When something goes wrong in our lives, we may feel hurt, irritated, dejected. If we give in to bouts of self-pity and start…
The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions
Suppose we see someone driving a Porsche and looking prosperous. That sight may make us burn with envy and resentment: “Why…
The mind overvalues things it doesn’t have and undervalues things it does have
Suppose we are selling something to buy something in exchange. If we undervalued what we had and overvalued what we didn’t…
To be happy is possible, to be happier than others is impossible
We all want to be happy, but we often tie our happiness to certain conceptions. One such common conception is that we will …
No matter how bad things are, we can always make them worse – we are never powerless
Sometimes, life puts us in so many difficulties that we feel utterly powerless. That feeling can drown us in despair, self-pity,…
Cultivation of satisfaction requires not the rejection of desire, but the selection of desire
Some people feel, “Dissatisfaction is the spur for performance. If we simply become satisfied and give up the desire to …
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