Education

If education doesn't teach you to resist injustice, 

IT HAS FAILED.

- John DeWey

Super 5 to care for

Thoughts 

Words

Actions

Habits

Character 

Above trigger destiny.

"Be watchful of all these,

For thoughts shape words,

Words forge actions,

Actions form habits,

Habits build character,

Character carves destiny".

- Lao Tzu 

This resonates with a Brihadaranyak Upanishad verse:

"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny."

From Roots

All things must come to the soul from its roots, where it is planted.

- St. Teresa of Avila, Spain 

सत्यमेव जयते

सत्यमेव जयते


"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gai :
The one brings pain for moment,
The other for all time.

- Chilon of Sparta

सत्यमेव जयते from Mundaka Upanishad meaning Truth alone triumphs.

your best speech

Speak when you are angry,

And you will make

The best speech 

You will ever regret.

- Ambrose Bierce

Power of PATIENCE

There is no evil like hatred,

And no fortitude like PATIENCE.

Thus I should strive in various ways 

To Meditate on PATIENCE.

- verse two

Book 📚 by Shanthi Deva titled,

'A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life.'.

Dalai Lama 's favourite reference is to the verses in above book.

deadly anger

Whatever wholesome deeds,

Such as venerating the buddhas 

and (practising) generosity,

That have been amassed 

Over a thousand aeons,

Will all be destroyed 

In one moment of 

ANGER.

- first verse

A Guide to Bodhisattva Way of Life.