Aashish Bajpai

“Our natural state of being is joy, love, and peace. Therefore, any thinking that we do will only take us away from those natural states of being, which is why whenever we feel extremely stressed, we are having a LOT of thinking going on. The strength of the negative emotion we feel is in direct proportion to how much thinking we are doing in the moment.”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think

“when a landlord, a weaver or a shoemaker has greater profits than he needs to maintain his own family, he uses the surplus to employ more assistants, in order to further increase his profits. The more profits he has, the more assistants he can employ. It follows that an increase in the profits of private entrepreneurs is the basis for the increase in collective wealth and prosperity.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The oddity is that early modern Europeans caught a fever that drove them to sail to distant and completely unknown lands full of alien cultures, take one step on to their beaches, and immediately declare, ‘I claim all these territories for my king!”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“We cannot change what we are not aware of,
and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think