Bitter Experiences: Choose Wisdom over Wound
If bitter experiences happen in your life, the Choice is this – you can either become wise or wounded. #SadhguruQuotes https://t.co/vejPAUgCfl
Devotion Means Emptying Mind, Not Fearful Worship
Devotion is not about fear of god. It means an absence of your rubbish. When you understand the limitations of the intellect, that it is too miniscule to grasp the boundlessness of existence, you will naturally bow down. #SadhguruWisdom https://t.co/Bt1SDyNyzp
Self‑Love Burns Like Hot Iron, Others Offer Escape
I get blown away every time I read this paragraph by Carl Jung: To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron:...
Shift From Work‑life Balance to Work‑life Integration
Work-life balance sounds reasonable. It isn't. The moment you talk about balancing work against your life, you've already conceded something: That your work isn't part of your life. That it's a cost you pay to get to the time that actually...
Brodsky's Remedy: Poetry Beats Existential Boredom
Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky on the cure for existential boredom (which may be the most pernicious and invisible modern epidemic beneath everything from loneliness to war) https://t.co/12A49eeD5x
Baby Hare Awakens Workaholic, Rekindles Her Wild Soul
The moving story of how a helpless baby hare helped a workaholic woman wake up from the trance of near-living and rewild her soul https://t.co/yBn8omsEpm
Monthly Reflection: 6 Questions to Sharpen Focus
The end of the month isn't just a date on the calendar. It's a chance to reflect and reset. Six questions worth asking yourself today: 1. What did I learn this month? 2. What am I proud of accomplishing? 3. How did I step...
Gibran’s Guide to Humanity’s Spiritual Perfection
How to be human – Kahlil Gibran's recipe for our spiritual perfection as a species https://t.co/S1aNieKGbX
Lovingkindness: Heart Quality, Not Action Checklist
Lovingkindness is a quality of the hear, not a prescription for a certain kind of action.
Embrace Transience: Live Impactfully Beyond Material Ash
Ash Before my Body and My Bones Turn into nascent Ash let the Power and Beauty of My Being touch this World. Let my Breath bring the fragrance of my Being to you and The glory of my Lord of No-thing. The profoundness of Nothing, cannot be missed for...
Finding Life’s Meaning in Street Library Relics
Street library divinations – searching for the meaning of life in discarded books and found objects https://t.co/gfJpexPKmJ
Your Inner Experience Is Your Own Choice
As a human being, the stars and planets need not decide your experience of life. You alone should decide your Inner Experience. #SadhguruQuotes https://t.co/D4TcrGA0wv
Choose Work that Aligns with Meaning or Money
Do you need your work to feel meaningful, or just to financially support your life? Why's that the right fit for you? SinceYouAsked
Church Isn't Optional—Consistent Community Strengthens Faith
A lot of men treat church like it’s optional. If I feel like it, we’ll go. That’s a weak standard and it trickles down to your whole family. The Bible is clear: do not give up meeting together. Your faith was never...
Nature’s Quiet Reveals What Modern Life Obscures
Kate and I spent the weekend forest bathing. A cabin in deep woods, a river feeding the ocean, tides marking the day. We hiked, watched, listened, and smelled. We let the quiet settle. By Sunday morning, my resting heart rate dropped...
Meditation: No Goal, Just Deep Relaxation of Self
#Meditation is not meant to be a strain. Straining for a goal is tension. A successful meditation is not achieving something new. Meditation is not something to achieve. You are already that which you seek... Just learn to relax so...
Faith and AI Converge: Guiding Moral Future
My dear friend and partner in the Faith-AI Covenant Project, Dana Humaid Al Marzouqi, and I come from different cultures, different professional backgrounds, and different faiths. But we share a deep conviction that humanity is approaching a turning point with...
Being Authentic Makes Life Simpler
“When I decided on the right to be who I truly was, instead of the person I had always agreed and striven to be—i.e., highly successful, endlessly charming—life got a lot more simple.” — @ANNELAMOTT Listen to the latest episode of...
Surrendering Ego: Let the Machine Reveal Hidden Truths
Wall Street worships at the altar of ego I found salvation in surrender Let The Machine see what my pride wouldn't let me admit https://t.co/gnKc5yJGKL
Aging Brings Humility and Quiet, Revealing Past Nonsense
“The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve wasted time on.”
Embrace Openness, Release Grasping, Start Fresh
Because I know you live for my guided meditations, here is a recent one: "Letting Go of All Contraction." "So if it's available to you, maintaining this openhearted love towards all that's arising, just come into openness to the experience...
Embrace Imperfections: Honest Self‑Acceptance Beats Denial
In this week's episode of Office Hours, I explore why we avoid uncomfortable truths when feeling down, and why the better path towards fulfillment is honest self-acceptance—embracing your imperfections, and taking on the challenge to improve. https://t.co/TLFQve9coy
True Presence: The Privilege of Living in the Moment
Presence is a privilege. “If your mind is always elsewhere, you’re not really experiencing anything. Nothing is ever real.”
Teach Kids to Cherish Ordinary Joys, Not Greatness
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them...
Letting Go: The Overlooked Superpower Inspired by Buddha
Letting go is the superpower people ignore. We are so busy holding on. This is why I love the Buddha.
One Neuron, One Voice in the Global Brain
How does it feel to be a just a single neuron in a global brain?
Orcas Reveal Love, Loss, and Consciousness Lessons
Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from Earth's most successful and creative predator https://t.co/WbJDWa6Jez
Daily Bird Divination: A Prayer for Presence
A #birddivination for every day, a kind of prayer for presence. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at https://t.co/xpo04XE701 https://t.co/j4IzPXycAT
Broaden Interests, Diminish Ego, Embrace Universal Life
"Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life." Bertrand Russell on how to grow old and what makes a fulfilling life...
Eternal Treasure Beats Money: Faith Over Wealth
Money can buy many things, but it can never buy salvation. 💰✨ "Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death." -Proverbs 11:4 At the end of our lives, our bank accounts, titles, and possessions will mean nothing....
Find Inner Calm Amid Life’s Constant Rush
“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.” — Margaret Bourke-White
Find Courage to Hear Your Soul, Says Woolf
The courage to be yourself – Virginia Woolf on how to hear your soul https://t.co/q6EA818Aha
Follow Your Soul: Question Authority, Embrace Nature
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…” Whitman's timeless advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life: https://t.co/KhXWFrt5QR
Growth Requires Change: Perception Mirrors Self
Two thoughts from Anaïs Nin "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect...
Purpose Is a Journey, Not a Destination
"Deciding upon a certain purpose in life is not a destination. Rather, uncovering your purpose in various stages of life is a journey. Exploring meaning in life and working toward goals that align with your purpose help you to pave...
Reject Mormon Rules, Achieve Your Dreamed Life
What would I say to my younger self growing up in Mormonism? You are going to achieve the life you’ve always dreamed of by not following any of their rules.
Master Inner Silence in Meditation, Control Your Mind Anywhere
If inner silence can be mastered in #meditation, you'll be amazed at how you can more easily control your mind at other times. https://t.co/eM5qaDobDj
Mechanization Turned God Into Engineer, Then Erased Him
“the mechanization of the world-picture led with irresistible consistency to the conception of God as a retired engineer, and from this to His complete elimination was only a step. for scientists who nevertheless wanted to preserve their faith there was...
Live as if Everything Is a Miracle
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein (Lake Wanaka, New Zealand) https://t.co/45nYWylK98
Embrace Every Pivot: Purpose Found in Closed Doors
Two days until I share Check the Thread. Pontiac will always be special to me. It is the city where my corporate career began, and it became the place where I stood years later to tell a story about purpose, reinvention,...
Holding On Weighs You Down; Let Go
The longer you hold on to things, the heavier they become. Learn to let go. https://t.co/sm1iSMuj3A
Cultivate Community and Place to Preserve Virtue Amid Technology
“The challenge is how to live with virtue and technology when technology tends to erode virtue and place and human texture. Our response must be to cultivate habits, community and a revivification of place.” https://t.co/6TIFWcz4Ji
Seeking Diverse Voices Fuels My Personal Growth
As I reflect on this past week, I realized that I'm passed the phase of wanting to be in rooms of people who think like me. I am finally capable and emotionally regulated enough to be in rooms where I'm...
Brain's Uniqueness Defies Purely Computational Consciousness Models
"If the brain is not just a computer, then there’s little reason to believe that everything it does – including consciousness – can be abstracted away into the lifeless circuits of a digital computer." @anilkseth https://t.co/rqLMAYdAQR
Healing Needs Practical Steps, Not Just Self‑Awareness
If you ask people what self-healing actually takes, they won’t be able tell you what to do beyond “be more self aware” or “increase your self-love”. Yeah, but no. Unlearning, detangling, deconstructing, leaning in and phasing out are things that...
Sam Altman's “Why?” Sparks Deep Existential Doubt
.@sama himself asks me "Why?" I am now questioning my tweet, my reasoning, my worldview, and possibly my entire existence. help pls. https://t.co/tpfo7Gylz3
Identity Shifts, Core Truths Remain Unchanged
Three days until my TEDxPontiac talk goes live. This stage held more than a speech. It held obedience. It held healing. It held the courage to tell the truth about transition, identity, and the quiet strength required to begin again. One of...
First Evidence of Traditional Psilocybin Use Beyond Americas
(5) Psilocybin changes people’s brains after their first trip; Anthropologists share first evidence of traditional psilocybin use outside of the Americas https://t.co/t4DakDMVvJ
Savoring: A Conscious Rebellion Against Our Negativity Bias
Savoring is rebelling against yourself. We’re wired to notice what’s wrong before we notice what’s good. That helped our ancestors survive, but it also means we move through life without fully experiencing the moments worth savoring. Savoring doesn’t come naturally. It’s...
True Happiness Lies Beyond Wealth and Palace Walls
The story of the Buddha starts with a prince who had everything — wealth, comfort, and even palace walls built to keep suffering out of his awareness. But the suffering found its way in anyway. That realization is what sent him...