You need to get out of your comfort zone to make connections with new ideas. If you don't have that grit and resilience to embrace a growth mindset, you might never get a taste of what it feels like to be successful.

Mindfulness gives freedom from negative and fixed mindset to positive and growth mindset.

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

Having a fine relationship is good, but its absence doesn't nullify your success in life. You shouldn't be in it as a result of societal pressure, neither should you be ridiculed because you're not in it. It's an act of idiocy to place so much value on marital status when there are other better things to catch up with.

I wonder if a typical African man can wash her woman's feet without feeling the strain of a burgeoning shame.

Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world.