03 Chapter Three

03.20 – Devotion encompasses both reconnection of the world and its renunciation

03.32 – Confusion in attribution obscures illumination – end confusion with devotion

03.36 – The greatest threat to individual freedom is the individual

03.39 – When a wildfire appears to be the cure for a burn, a wildfire is burning our head

05.23 – As long as we mistake the irresistible to be essential, we deprive ourselves of the essential

03.30 – Be a warrior, not a worrier

03.37 – Lust is worse than our worst enemy

03.06 – Spiritual advancement comes not just by change of activity but by change of mentality

03.30 – Fight for all that you have with all that you have

07.03 – Accepting that we are ordinary is extraordinary

03.37 – Red carpet or red light?

03.07 – Is nothing the place where something is hiding?

03.26 – Might we be burning the very bridge that we want others to cross?

03.41 – Pause is not inaction but action

03.39 – Are we mistaking torture to be pleasure?

03.43 – Keeping our skeptical antenna on high alert

03.16 – When comforts become ends, life becomes a dead end

03.21 – Why not model the desired example instead of desiring the model example?

03.41 – The mental avatar of AIDS

03.41 – Where is the glory in a backdoor victory over attachments?

03.30 – Better to be exhausted than rusted

03.36 – Spiritual culture is the bridge from hypocrisy and perversity to purity

03.41 – Are we pinching a sleeping tiger?

03.39 – Sex is extraordinarily ordinary

02.22 – We are dressed by and for our desires

03.30 – Expecting the default to change by default is a dangerous fault

03.26 – Do not make a virtue out of alienating people

03.32: Spiritual advancement comes not by defining, but by refining

03.39: When the heat hits…

03.41: It is never too late – and it is already too late

03.16: Take exception to the hope for an exception

03.43:The mind traps us materially and trips us spiritually

03.43: Why do our resolutions crash between takeoff and landing?

03.41: Are we watching what we watch?

03.39: Oblivious – LI = Obvious

03.39: Slick about sin or sick about sin?

03.21: The Gita lives through those who live the Gita

03.36: When our impulses hold our values hostage…

03.36: A game that we can’t win and can’t quit

03.41: Response to Temptation: Welcome Tune or Alarm Bell?

03.32: Krishna is attained not by playing with the intellect but by striving with the will

03.43: Dwell, Desire, Decide, Degrade – No! Discriminate

03.37: The Black Hole of Lust

03.06: Spend Quality Time with God

03.34: We are products, but not prisoners of our past