A piece of wisdom from
December 27, 2025 · Saturday
The quote
“Whoever offers me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water — that, the offering of the pure-hearted, I accept.”
— Krishna · The Bhagavad Gita
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
Try this once today: the lesson of Relationships. The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.56
दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः। वीतरागभयक्रोधः स्थितधीर्मुनिरुच्यते॥
“He whose mind is undisturbed in sorrow, who craves no pleasure, and from whom attachment, fear, and anger have departed — he is called a sage of steady wisdom.”
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