The truth is, critics are a fact of life, and criticism is something all of us must face. In fact, the only way to avoid criticism is to live an isolated life where people aren’t exposed to your work, personality, or behavior. Sometimes the criticism we receive is valuable, even helpful. If you think about […]
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Be Spiritual, Not Religious : Spiritual notes from ISKCON
“Be spiritual not religious”, it is a spiritual quote and the notes from ISKCON for all the devotees of God. Spirit is undying (eternal), internal and God’s fingerprint. Religion is temporary, external and man’s concoction. The Vedas teach “Sanatan Dharma” which eclipses religion and can restore the eternal soul to its pure original condition. The […]
Your Attempt may fail but never fail to make an Attempt, Quote of Hare Krishna Movement
“Your Attempt may fail but never fail to make an Attempt” – a super quote from Hare Krishna Movement. They have related a good story for the above personality development quote. Failure is nothing but a bad experience and you will never get succeed without making an attempt. As I was passing by the elephants, […]
Do not live in imagined future
If you want to be a happier, less-stressed person, there is no better place to start than with becoming aware of “anticipatory thinking,” or an imagined future. Essentially, this type of thinking involves imagining how much better your life will be when certain conditions are met – or how stressful, or difficult something is going […]
Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Wonders of our Life
A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present “Seven Wonders of the world.” Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes: Egypt’s Great Pyramids Taj Mahal Grand Canyon Panama Canal Empire State Building St. Peter’s Basilica China’s Great Wall While gathering the votes, the teacher noticed […]
Listen to the criticism and get the details, How to be a Perfect Human being
When someone criticizes you, instead of attacking the other person(s) for their words and building a hostile atmosphere try to calm it down. Try to remain level-headed, open and figure out how this can help you. Even when someone blurts out something not too constructive like “Your work/blog/product stinks!” you might want to ask a […]
Today before you complain about…
Today before you think of saying an unkind word – Think of someone who can’t speak. Today before you complain about the taste of your food – Think of someone who has nothing to eat. Today before you complain about life – Think of someone who went too early to heaven. Today before you argue […]
Work with transcendental results
The learned sages inform us that one takes his birth in India, the holy land of Bharata-varsa, after the gradual process of evolution through 8,400,000 species of life, including 900,000 aquatic species, 2,000,000 nonmoving species such as vegetables and hills, 1,100,000 germ and insect species, 1,000,000 bird species, 3,000,000 lower-animal species, and 400,000 human species. […]
The Superintendence of God
We should always know that God is ever kind to us. Despite our gross disobedience to the laws of God’s nature, the Lord is kind enough to look after our maintenance. Water is one of the most important items for our maintenance, because without water we can neither produce food grains nor quench our thirst. […]
The Champion’s Edge
The champion’s edge is not in a gifted birth; a high Intelligent Quotient (IQ) or in talent. The champion’s edge is all in the ATTITUDE (how you do what you do); not aptitude. How you do what you do determines the quality of the results you get in your life. It is what you do […]
Your Future Lies with God
Your future is not determined by who YOU know and who YOU don’t know, who likes YOU and who doesn’t like YOU? The power to fulfill YOUR destiny is within YOU! Almighty GOD put it in there… YOU should make every effort to discover it… harness it… master it and exhibit it to HIS glory. […]
Life From Your Own View
Life, as we have heard, is how we make it. If we took time reflecting on this statement we might discover it is actually true. People often say life is not fair, actually that’s true. Life doesn’t choose who will be rich or poor, who will be successful or not. Who does then? Actually it’s […]
Be a Reasonable Person to avoid conflicts in Life
Be a reasonable person to avoid conflicts in life – yes it’s true that those who are reasonable will lead their life with minimum conflicts in life. “Reasonable” suggests the ability to see things fairly, without the self-serving justification that so often clouds our vision. It’s the ability to see your own contribution to a […]
Relationships are hard to handle & might even seem impossible at times
Relationships are hard to handle and might even seem impossible at times. There will be many fights and many quarrels, many disagreements and many tears….. The easiest thing would be to give up. But if we instead spend half the energy we use in fighting with each other, to keep the relationship strong, then that […]
Superintendence of the Lord
We should always know that God is ever kind to us. Despite our gross disobedience to the laws of God’s nature, the Lord is kind enough to look after our maintenance. Water is one of the most important items for our maintenance, because without water we can neither produce food grains nor quench our thirst. […]
Nothing Comes Easy
It’s funny to keep watching people who want things to come easy to them in life. Many other people know of this tendency among human beings, so they keep selling them diet pills that let them eat whatever they want, job information that will make them rich with no effort, college “degrees” that require no […]
Being Optimistic…
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you expect the best or the worst to happen? • Being an optimist does not mean that you are out of touch with reality, ignoring difficulties and obstacles and behaving in a naive way. • Being an optimist means that you hope and expect events and plans […]
The Supreme Intelligence
It is natural that a philosophical mind wants to know about the origin of the creation. At night he sees the stars in the sky, and he naturally speculates about their inhabitants. Such inquiries are natural for man because man has a developed consciousness which is higher than that of the animals. The author of […]
Pause To Thank
There was a king who was deeply chagrined by the behavior of his ministers and courtiers. Whenever there was a banquet at the palace, he noticed that none of the nobles and aristocrats gathered together on the occasion, ever paused to offer a prayer to the Lord before eating their meals. Laughing and chatting, they […]
Clear the dust of your Mind
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. This transcendental sound vibration will help us to cleanse the dust from the mirror of the mind. At the present moment we have accumulated so much material dust on the mirror of the mind, just as on the road […]