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Attitude leads to altitude.’
To improve our attitudes, we require: 1) Knowledge of the sentiments, emotions and feelings that help or harm us. 2) The ability to react positively to the circumstances in our life, the people we interact with and the work we do. 3) To make the desirable attitudes a second nature to us, so they arise subconsciously, without effort.
mindsets are mental habits we establish internally, by practising particular attitudes repeatedly, until they come naturally to us.
The beauty of the power of mindset is that it is an internal resource we all possess.
‘Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.’
uncontrolled mind as the primary reason for failure.
‘With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.’
We push hard to reach our goals and when progress is not visible, we push even harder, without realising that we have our emotional brakes on. These brakes are emotions like greed, discontentment, fear, anxiety, stress and resentment.
The secret, then, is not to try harder but smarter, by disengaging the emotional brakes of harmful attitudes that reside within.
‘Both bondage and liberation depend upon the state of our mind.’
‘Bondage and liberation are determined by the mind. Attachment of the mind in the realm of the three guṇas results in bondage, while detachment from material objects leads to release from maya
‘The mind is responsible for both bondage of maya and liberation from it. Hence, whatever form of devotion you practise, do not forget to remember God alongside.’
