Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind Quotes

“Great wonders, great relationships, great experiences, great realisations, and great achievements all occur in the present. When we intensify our experience of the present,”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“The most important time is now. The most important person is the person you are with right now. The most important work is to help someone in need now.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons It is not enough to have faith; one also needs to have intelligence. Intelligence gives you the ability to discriminate between the choices you make. Choices made without discrimination are usually unreliable. While the role of faith is more feeling-based, the role of intelligence is more logic-based. When it comes to important choices in life, involve both logic and feeling. First, use intelligence to discriminate well, and when the choice is made, use your feelings to experience your choice deeply. Unfortunately, people do the exact opposite. They use faith first and enter into something and then begin to use their intelligence to create doubts about their choice. When choice is based on intelligence, doubts are eliminated first, and faith follows.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons The most important element in having lifelong connections is like-mindedness. When people of similar and equal disposition connect with one another, an amalgam is formed that is inseparable under any kind of pressure, time frame, or circumstance. To have strong relationships, like-mindedness is mandatory. When there is a cultural similarity in upbringing, a lot of equations are already in sync without even putting in effort. Culture influences food habits, language, thought process, priorities, choice of clothes, and hygiene, to name a few. If, in addition to a cultural match, there is like-mindedness, the likelihood of the relationship lasting the test of time is much higher. In relationships, wealth is probably the lamest and weakest link. Special skills, work experience, and talents are also flimsy reasons. Mystical powers and predictive abilities never guarantee magical relationships either. Nothing else can substitute like-mindedness in an enduring relationship.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons Complaining is easy, appreciating is difficult. When an immature mind focusses on an immediate problem, it complains. Life is vast, but when the mind focusses on only one disturbing aspect of life, life narrows down to that perspective. When you focus on life holistically, there are several things to be grateful about. Gratitude brings peace and complaints bring disturbance. Even God won’t be able to help those who complain a lot. The mind has a tendency to complain about anything that is labeled bad. The trick is to help the mind discover the rare gems of goodness in life’s garbage dump of negativity. When the mind is trained to focus on things to be grateful for, its complaining nature slowly fizzles out.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons Everything begins with an intention. Our destiny is shaped by our earnest intentions. Our intentions are shaped by our deepest desires. Every building was initially only an intention in the mind of the architect. That is why it is said that we build our destiny using the bricks of our intentions. To change one’s destiny, one should begin by inspecting the seed of one’s intentions. After all, intentions are more important than actions. When you sow the seed of your intention in the field of possibilities, you can grow the crop of your destiny. Many people lament a bad crop of destiny. This is because they have never spent time curating their intentions. When you plant bad seeds, you harvest a bad crop. We often set out to do something but get distracted from our goals over cheap thrills. Good intentions come from focussing on the goal, not on cheap thrills. Distractions destroy true intentions.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons Not all answers can be found in books and not all learned men have presence of mind. Knowledge is all about theory but wisdom is the practical application of theories. To succeed in academics, you need to be knowledgeable, but to succeed in life, you need to be practical. While most people try to be theoretically right, successful people try to be practically right. While school gives you information, the school of life gives you wisdom. Solutions to life’s problems do not lie in some corner of the box of knowledge. Usually, it floats around in the expansive skies of wisdom. That is why these solutions are called out-of-the-box thinking. Seek not to just cultivate knowledge but to cultivate wisdom. In wisdom lies the secret of growth, success, and creativity.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons Laziness is the mother of all excuses. Every excuse you make, however genuine it may seem, is most probably born out of laziness. If excuses were a currency, a lazy person would be very rich. Rather than spending time and accumulating the currency of excuses, one should learn to utilize time and grow in responsibility. Laziness is pleasurable at present but painful later. Responsibility is painful at present but pleasurable later. Sometimes, people end up becoming lazy and unproductive simply because they have an intense fear of failure. Instead of admitting to themselves and others that they tried and failed, they prefer to live under the illusion that they have not failed because they just did not try. The one thing that a lazy mind fails to grasp is that not everything that is painful is bad and not everything that seems pleasurable is good. Laziness is simply a way to hide from reality.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind

“Life Lessons Fear is nothing but paralysis of the mind. It is like a termite that attacks a healthy tree and soon leaves it hollow, weak, and broken. It is not problems that cause fear but fear that causes problems. The full form of fear is ‘False Evidence Accepted [as] Real’. Most problems in life exist only in the mind. In reality, they are not problems at all; the mind can make every trivial issue seem like the end of the world. In reality, we are much stronger than we think. Half the battle is won by physical strength but the other half is won only by mental strength. Getting halfway is getting nowhere. The mind can carry you much farther than your body can. The mind is unstoppable when filled with courage but inconsolable when filled with fear. While a strong positive mind is your best friend, a fear-filled negative mind is your worst enemy.”
― Shubha Vilas, Timeless Tales to Ignite Your Mind