Some Lessons for Saner Living

·      With just a smile appearing on your face you are changing the face of the entire Universe!

·      Be adventurous—i.e., be willing, ever eager, to step out of your confined, and confining, comfort zone.

·      If you don’t dare to dream, you likely can’t expect to lead more than a very mediocre life.

·      Do you think we’d be able to live well if we knew beforehand when, where and how we would die? Not quite likely! It is a blessing that these things have been kept as a secret from us.

·      If there’s work that you need to do and that you’re capable of doing, do it, instead of expecting or asking someone else to.

·      Effort is a necessary ingredient of success.

·      When what was at best a means comes to be regarded as an end in itself it is bound to produce negative outcomes.

·      Much of the conflict in the world is a result of taking means to be ends.

·      If you habitually complain about things, you make yourself unhappy, and others, too.

·      If you habitually complain about things, don’t be surprised if no one wants to be your friend or if only some fellow habitual complainers might.

·      No person is perfect, neither ‘perfectly good’, nor ‘perfectly bad’. Each person—by which is meant their mind—is a mix of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.  It is the mind that is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and that, too, in a particular moment, for the contents of the mind are continuously changing, with one thought giving way to the next. And actually, it is not the mind as such that is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but particular thoughts that pass through the mind, from moment to moment.

·      Prolonged idleness of mind is a near sure recipe for depression and can even lead to lunacy.

·      If you don’t respect yourself, the person you know best and are closest to, how will you respect others?

·      If you get entangled in petty personal and inter-personal issues, you may not be able to work for higher purposes.

·      You love reading books? Have you tried writing one yourself? You love watching movies? Have you tried making one (even just a Youtube video) yourself? Why only consume when you can also produce?

·      Consumption can consume you if you don’t consume with proper awareness.

·      No cause is worth it if it is premised on the continual suppression of freedom and joy, for freedom and joy are ends in themselves, not just a means.

·      If you cheerfully put in effort to do small things, you are paving the way for you to do big things.

·      An education that focuses on the Mind and neglects the Body and the Soul is extremely lopsided and also harmful.

·      Thank everyone who is of benefit to you, even if you have paid them for their service.

·      Be your unique self, as God made you to be, not an imitation of someone else.

·      If you identify as a member of a particular group that is based on some or the other marker of exclusivist identity, you automatically set yourself apart from all the rest, who do not identify themselves as members of ‘your’ group. This by itself produces and reinforces division.

·      You can’t move forward if your gaze is fixed backward.

·      If you are enthusiastic about living, you’ll likely not habitually oversleep.

·      Beautify your ‘inner home’, rather than just the house in which you live.

·      If you regard work as simply a means to make money, you will likely soon grow tired of it and will not excel in it.

·      See work as a means for you to express your being, to develop and manifest your potential, to become the best version of yourself that you possibly can.

·      When you talk unnecessarily, think of the precious energy that you waste thereby!

·      Preparing for one’s eventual departure from Earth is a fine art, one that one must strive to learn.

·      The purpose of life is to live, to live well.

·      One small act of kindness can make a big difference.

·      Each person’s life-story is worth writing, worth reading, worth hearing.

·      Vegetate, imitate, or innovate and create.

·      Our inner joy is inseparably linked to the benefit we can be of to the wider Creation.

·      The people who come your way are those who have to come your way for you to play the roles that you have to play.