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You forget that everyone you meet, everyone in the world, is a human being stuck in the same predicament, trying with their imperfect intellect to make sense of this immensely complicated firmament.
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Srikumar S. Rao (Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What)
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The most important thing that our business schools need to teach us is that your work is not about your work. Rather, your work is nothing more than the ultimate vehicle for your personal growth.
If your business fails, it doesn't matter. The question is, how did you grow? If your business becomes a billion dollars, it doesn't matter. The question is, how did you grow? - Srikumar Rao
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Vishen Lakhiani (The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work)
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A man will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
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Srikumar S. Rao (Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What)
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When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.1
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Srikumar S. Rao (Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success)
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Prestige is a distorting force that makes you want to like something that you really do not.
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Srikumar S. Rao (Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success)
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I’ve said it before: We spend way too much time railing about the two or three things that we think are “wrong” in our lives and we ignore the fifty to five hundred things that are pretty darn good.
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Srikumar S. Rao (Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success)
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Life is a passing show, so do not let temporary disturbances affect your equanimity.
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Srikumar S. Rao (Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers' Guide to Unstoppable Success)
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invective to be used against someone you loathed. I laughed and am still laughing. Such things only happen when we live in a me-centered world. We’re so sure that the way in which we view the world is the only right and proper one that we see those who deviate from it as misguided and those who completely diverge from it as aliens from Mars. Such thinking inevitably leads to the sharp polarization that occurs in many facets of life today, especially in politics and religion. Kornfield, because of his training and intellect, recognized what was happening, and this incident played a role in launching him on his path of explaining Buddhism to a Western lay audience. We don’t know what changes, if any,
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Srikumar S. Rao (Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What)