When you develop a regular habit of going to a temple, library or a gymnasium, you start liking these activities as your thoughts are transformed. You would also undergo similar changes, if you start visiting brothels regularly.

We need to help others in order to make ourselves happy and create a better world. When we are only taking from the world and not giving anything in return, we are creating an imbalance in our spiritual energies. If we develop the habit of giving back to the world as much as we are taking from it, we feed our souls and lead a more vibrant life.

You can’t shed ignorance unless you develop the habit to learn by observation and self-analysis.

The habit of comparing leads to the habit of criticism, which soon leads to self-condemnation, and fills your life with pain and misery.

Once you develop awareness of the world and develop the habit of learning from your own successes and failures, each experience of yours will automatically teach you the rules of the game called life.

When we develop the habit of appreciating others, they too appreciate us. This creates a virtuous cycle of appreciation in which there is mutual respect and admiration.

Once you develop the habit of forgiving, you would soon find that you do not feel hurt anymore because the same understanding which helps you forgive, helps you in not getting hurt in the first place.

Criticising and condemning others can’t give anyone lasting happiness. Once people fall into the habit of criticising others, they become susceptible to even criticising their own selves as they too are not perfect. The habit of comparing leads to the habit of criticism, which soon leads to self-condemnation, and fills your life with pain and misery.