Gita Daily

The wild mind will make us homeless at home Gita 06.34

The choices you make make you Gita 17 03

The images of prosperous people that make us burn with envy are just our mind’s illusions Gita 17 16

To be nice is not to be naive it is to be free from the control of vice Gita 16 02

The notion that love can exist outside of sacrifice is a dangerous lie Gita 09 14

We are like birds on a branch — our wings need to grow before the branch breaks

Watch the mind, or the mind will catch you Gita 06 34

Let your practices make you a spiritual fruit, not a religious nut Gita 18 66

Choose the good when… Gita 02.49

Mindless feeds don’t feed our mind, they feed our mindlessness Gita 16 16

No one has a right to mistreat you, not even you Gita 06 05

Materialism reduces you to a number and glamorizes things that make you number Gita 16 09

Problems are like burdens whose weight increases with the attention we give them Gita 18 58

To forget that the world is a hurtful place is to place ourselves on a path full of hurts Gita 08 15

The mind makes us spin like dirty laundry and leaves us dirtier Gita 06 34

Our future is shaped not just by how many options we have Gita 09.06

How to foster intrinsic self worth, not extrinsic self worth? Gita 18 14

Be childlike, not childish Gita 12 13

Those who relapse aren’t always witless or will less, they are often weapon less Gita 02 60

To live life fully, leave life regularly take breaks before life breaks you Gita 06 17

Some people get many insights… Gita 16.06

To savor what is most sweet, we often need to shed the most sweat Gita 18 37

More damaging than the lies we tell others are the lies we tell ourselves Gita 03 06

We have to risk going too far to know how far we can go Gita 18 37

Those who don’t respect themselves are most agitated when others don’t respect them Gita 16 04

Fanatics use God’s name to give God a bad name Gita 16 17

The night after a quake, the stars still shine in the sky… the beauty of life Gita 18.35

Seek God’s help for doing his will or else Gita 18 58

Reason can’t reach beyond reason, but it can give us reason to reach beyond reason Gita 07 07

Opinions are like onions know when they need to be sealed and when peeled Gita 02 06

The Mind Overpowers Us By Making Us Believe That We Are Powerless Gita 15 07

Just as bigotry can blind emotionally, ideology can blind intellectually Gita 18 22

If we are robbed repeatedly by the same suspect, it is our intelligence that is suspect Gita 03 43

Obscenity is objectionable not because… Gita 05.22

Pointless pleasures strip life of meaning more than do pointless problems Gita 03.16

Even if we are feeling miserable, that doesn’t give us the right to make others miserable Gita 17 16

Even if we fare well in life, we still have to say farewell to life Gita 08 16

Don’t justify your weaknesses, rectify them Gita 03.21

As long as we don’t mine under the mind, the mind will undermine us Gita 06.07

For inner change, momentum matters more than movement Gita 06.25

Those who underestimate their mind undermine their intelligence Gita 02.63

The media is mostly the mind multiplied, magnified & magnetized Gita 06.05

The mind often recasts antipathy as inability… Gita 18.37

Speak in a way that educates and engages, not enrages and estranges Gita 17.15

Imposed equality is often the most insidious inequality Gita 04.13

Ask not why bad things happen to good people… Gita 04.15

The Mind Is Like Ice To Truth And Fire To Lies Gita 03.43

Self pity makes feel bad seem feel good Gita 18.35

To be responsible means to stop blaming the outer trigger for the inner trouble Gita 18.42

Seeking to understand our nature… Gita 03.35

Don’t use others to feel better about yourself, learn from others how to become better Gita 03.21

Mind your mind to know when it is in order, when on the border and when out of order Gita 06 05

To be compassionate, be both caring and careful Gita 17.20

If we put gravity to test, gravity will put us to rest Gita 16.23

To get out of the mind, go above it to the soul or go below it to the body Gita 06.13

Even if we cover the tracks we make externally… Gita 16.12

If we are tormented by strong conscience and weak willpower… Gita 10.10

What the mind makes us do would be comic if its consequences were not so tragic Gita 06.34

Impurity needs to be feared before it can found… Gita 03.37

The mind wastes our energy in fighting wars that aren’t winnable… Gita 06.06

Everything expensive is not valuable, everything valuable is not expensive Gita 09.26

Before a prescription can inspire action, the diagnosis must inspire conviction Gita 18.72

More dangerous than the enemies that threaten are the enemies that tempt Gita 03.37

Passing blame is easy but disempowering, accepting responsibility is tough but empowering Gita 16.02

A Rigid Structure May Not Work For Us But Without A Structure We May Not Work Gita 06.36

God keeps the door to him unlocked from his side till every soul… Gita 04.36

We Cant Change Our Past But We Can Change How We See And Explain Our Past Gita 13.23

The causes of anger rarely hurt us as much as the consequences of anger Gita 16.21

What we achieve depends on not just how we strive but also on what we believe Gita 11.33

Attachment makes us psychologically stiff, detachment makes us psychologically flexible Gita 13.10

Those who don’t find the reprehensible reprehensible, are reprehensible Gita 16.14

Don’t reduce scripture to your conceptions of what scripture should be teaching… Gita 07.21

We aren’t merely physical beings seeking sustenance, safety and sex… Gita 02.13

We Have Snakes Inside Us But We Are Not One Of Them Gita 04 36

We don’t owe our friends a positive response, but we do owe them a sensitive response Gita 17.15

Doubt is a disease that makes the patient believe that the doctor is sick Gita 04.40

If we eat waste, it shows in our waist Gita 06.16

What’s wrong with moral relativism? Gita 16.08

To understand what is wrong in the world, look first in the mirror, not the newspaper Gita 16.22

The size of our problems is inversely proportional to the size of our purpose… Gita 18.58

We can’t immigrate to the spiritual world – we have to be invited there – Gita 8.15

Don’t see through others; see others through – Gita 16.4

Things that are worth doing, are worth doing well — and worth doing badly too Gita 06.26

The more we watch the mind’s movie the more the mind makes our life a horror movie Gita 06.06

Even if we can’t flatten the pandemic curve we can flatten the panic curve Gita 18.35

Even though we have more enemies than we realize we also have more friends than we realize BG 10.10

The more we consider others’ need the more we can free ourselves from our greed Gita 05.21

Even if our consciousness can’t be elevated it can still be expanded Gita 02.13

As long as we lack purity we live in poverty no matter how much money we have Gita 14.12

Appreciating our spiritual identity can anchor us amid the turbulence of contemporary society 02.16

Respond to moral failure not by mental punishment but by spiritual reinstatement Gita 09.30

By overemphasizing identity identity politics ends up obscuring identity Gita 02.13

Without spiritual direction religious regulation seems to be like pointless restriction or even pai

We can’t foresee every consequence of our actions but we can foresee their probable consequences

Transform depressing loneliness into nourishing solitude by seeking spiritual purpose Gita 13.11

Faith is seen through both firmness in intention and flexibility in execution Gita 09.14

Might Nature Be Teaching Us To Stop Believing That We Humans Alone Matter On The Earth Gita 14.04

Contextualizing absolute-sounding scriptural statements doesn’t minimize those statements not conte

Prayer is meant to act as a complement to prudent action not as a replacement Gita 11.40

Social isolation can be an opportunity to realize how we all are spiritually connected Gita 06.10