Living Wisely Living Well | With Asha Nayaswami

Be happy in yourself. If, in a plea for happiness, you hold out a begging bowl to life, the bowl will remain always empty.

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Be “solution-oriented,” not “problem-oriented.” Problem-consciousness only draws to itself more problems, as flypaper draws flies. But solution-consciousness, like a magnet, attracts answers and shines a bright light onto every difficulty.

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Be more concerned with understanding others than with being understood by them. They too, then, will usually give you their support.

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Tune into others’ inner realities. Though the words you speak be similar, your realities may be as different as unrelated languages.

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Let nothing tempt you ever to compromise an ideal. Morality is not a question of convention. The Ten Commandments are engraved in human nature on tablets of light. The true reason why theft, violence, murder, and other crimes are wrong is that they hurt first of all the perpetrator himself, condemning him to ever-deeper dungeon levels in the rock fortress of his egoism. If you arm yourself, however, with truthfulness, honesty, and integrity, you will emerge someday into perfect soul-freedom.

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Purity, innocence, and an absence of selfish motive: these, together, form a diadem more brilliant than that displayed on any emperor’s brow.

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Welcome any suggestion for improving your ideas. At the same time, protect them from others’ meddling. Be clear in your mind as to your true intentions.

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Make it a point this day to single out someone whose worth many have failed to appreciate. Take the time to show him or her your appreciation. (That person must, after all, have some admirable quality! Emphasize it.)

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Make it a point today to tell someone whom you love, “I deeply appreciate you for what you are, for what you have done for others, and for what you have given me.” Never take anyone close to you for granted.

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To achieve inner freedom, make a mental bonfire every night, before you go to sleep, of all your attachments, self-definitions, desires, and aversions. Nothing that can be measured, weighed, timed, or hoarded can ever truly belong to you. Toss into the flames, piece by piece, every obstacle to your inner peace. Feel your joy soaring skyward, as your limitations, one by one, go up in smoke.

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