What a human being needs is clarity, not confidence.

If you want to walk through a crowd of people, if your vision is clear and you can see where everybody is, you can just walk through the whole crowd without touching anyone. If your vision is not clear but you have confidence, you will walk over everybody.

Because there is no clarity, people think that confidence is a good substitute. It just cannot be.

To handle different kinds of situations in our lives, we need different kinds of identities.

If you are fluid about it, if you can change from one to another gracefully, then you can play your role to the hilt and still have no problem with it.

But for most people, their personality is like a rock.

If you have to break that, you have to do something in reverse. This is a simple thing you can do: team up with somebody that you do not like. Spend time with that person, very lovingly, joyfully.

There is no need to aspire to greatness. If you make the focus and ambit of your life well beyond the concerns of who you are, you will anyway be a great human being.

Both the neurological and energy systems branch out in a big way between the shoulder blades and above.

So, keeping the neck region in a good condition is very important. Within 3-4 minutes of doing these neck practices, you will distinctly see that you are much more alert.

There is a higher level of neuronal regeneration, and memory and intellectual sharpness also improve.

To be successful in the world, what you fundamentally need is prowess of the mind and the body.

• Equanimity gives you access to different dimensions of the mind. If there is no equanimity, your ability to use the mind is greatly reduced.
• Another important quality is on the level of your energy – you need exuberance, both physiologically and internally.

If equanimity and exuberance are brought into your mind and body, success will come to you much more easily.

Insight means you pay attention to life around you in such a way that you are able to see things that most people cannot see. If there is no insight, there is nothing to follow and toil for.

Mediocrity can be transformed into extraordinary activity, only when there is a deep insight into something.

Another important dimension is to constantly be inspired. Look at the reason why you are doing what you are doing and see the larger dimension of it, the contribution you make through every little thing you do in your life. Every action that human beings perform is a contribution to some dimension of this world.

Whatever you may be doing, someone could be benefitted by it. Being conscious of your contribution will keep you inspired.

Integrity is important because when you want to function in the world, how much trust you generate with the people you interact with determines how easy or hard your daily efforts will be.

If there is an atmosphere of trust, your ability to work will be greatly enhanced – simply because everyone will pave the way for you rather than setting up impediments.