Steady amid success-failure
Success goes to the head of those people for whom failure goes to their heart. Some people take success and become so bloated that they [...]
Success goes to the head of those people for whom failure goes to their heart. Some people take success and become so bloated that they [...]
We may be helpless, but we don't have to be hopeless. Sometimes life puts us in situations where there is absolutely nothing we can do [...]
Traditions are experiments that have been successful. To deny or decry their success just makes us a fool. When we look at traditions, especially traditions [...]
Purification leads not to the inhibition of our desires, but to the integration of our desires within a higher purpose of service. When we try [...]
Intelligence means to know when our views reflect our values and when our views deflect from our values. We all have certain values, things which [...]
Discipline is not about driving away the things about us that make us who we are; it is about driving away the things about us [...]
The most important faith required to help others is faith in the reformability of the human spirit enhanced by the grace of God. Whenever we [...]
If we trust everyone, we will be headless. If we trust no one, we will be heartless. During the course of our interactions with others, [...]
Today the world is on fire with dozens and dozens of problems including literal fires caused by prolonged wars. When we want to help a [...]
Even if we cannot get rid of fear, we don't have to take a ride on fear. Fear is just a natural and often unavoidable [...]
Authenticity means to value in practice what we value in principle. When we try to be authentic, some people think that it means that they [...]
Success is not just about beating the odds individually, but also about changing the odds collectively. When we hear the story of someone who rose [...]
Blaming others for their success is far easier than blaming ourselves for our failures. But it only makes our life worse and our world worse. [...]
Let us not be guilty bystanders by standing on as people destroy themselves through their misled desires. Suppose we were standing on a road and [...]
Spiritual life is not meant to provide us only an evacuation plan from the world. It is also meant to provide us a transformation plan [...]
What people consider as progress may well be a sign of regress if the progress takes them away from the things of value. Progress is [...]
The purpose of prayer is not just to get someone out there to listen, but also to get someone in here to listen. Whenever we [...]
Krishna's revelation of the Bhagavad Gita in its conclusion is private, not secret. When Krishna at the end of the Gita states that this knowledge [...]
Patient resolve is far more transformational than impotent rage. Whenever we see that something is wrong, in outside us or even inside us, we may [...]
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 [...]