In a word, do you want to know how they do not “live long”? See how eager they are to live long! Decrepit old men beg in their prayers for the addition of a few more years; they pretend that they are younger than they...
There are no good emotions or bad emotions; there is nothingwrongwith anger or jealousy or envy. Even if you are feeling hate, it comes fromyour integrity. Even if it’s sadness or depression that you are suffering, if you feel it, thereisalwaysareason for feeling it. I discovered something...
A great sage sent his chief disciple to the court of King Janak to learn something which was missing in the young man. The young man said, “If you can’t teach me, how can this man, this Janak, teach it to me? You are a great...
There is a story in the life of Mulla Nasruddin...
People are rendered sociable by their ability to endure solitude, that is to say, their own society. They become sick of themselves. It is this vacuity of soul which drives them to intercourse with others,--to travels in foreign countries. Their mind is wanting in elasticity;...
Abraham Lincoln said that "most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be." Like gratefulness and positivity, contentment is not usually handed to us as a gift, although it is always ours for the asking. We need only to align...
Humans believe so many lies. Some of these lies are so subtle and convincing that we base our entire virtual reality on themwithout even noticing that they arelies. Thelies we believe about ourselves can be difficult to see because we are so used to themthat they...
"Dear Participants of the 77th UN General Assembly You have an awesome duty to remain guardians of the future and we have a solemn obligation to stand with you. Our first goal is to convince you to bring back classical philosophy! Your success will be...
Winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have done or what they didn’t do. If we don’t like our performances, then we must first...
The first effect of existentialism is that it puts every man in possession of himself as he is, and places the entire responsibility for his existence squarely upon his own shoulders. And, when we say that man is responsible for himself, we do not mean...
