A piece of wisdom from
May 23, 2025 · Friday
The quote
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
— Swami Vivekananda · Dharma
The concept
Relationships
The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.
The longest study of human happiness ever conducted, the Harvard Adult Development Study, started in 1938 and still running, has one finding so clear it is almost embarrassing: the people who are happiest, healthiest, and live longest are t…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Relationships. The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 16.21
त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः। कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत्॥
“Three are the gates of this hell, destructive of the self — lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, abandon these three.”
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