When you receive a gift, you feel happy. But you are happy only for a while. Soon you look for more gifts and more sources of happiness. Thus, the happiness that comes from receiving is temporary―because it is the happiness...
Chanting aids in uplifting and expanding our consciousness, allowing us to be receptive to the flow of Divine love, joy, peace, wisdom and blessings. Thus, our life becomes a song itself and we become the instrument through which God plays...
The writer talks about working on your will power to strengthen your conscience Leo Tolstoy back in 1887 held that the only power capable of resisting the evil associated with materialism and the drive for social power of religious institutions,...
As a kid, I remember I had a small diary with a blue cover. I often wrote in that diary about things that I read or some event that made an impact on the way of my thinking. One such statement...
A spiritual perspective is capable of providing adequate support, thoughtful guidance and filling the grief-stricken people with new hope. When the bereaved persons probe their assumptions around life and death, falsehood and truth, and loneliness, there is a widening of...
We can either be butchers and cut up Earth’s resources mercilessly or protect it from further damage, so that it can heal itself There once lived a venerable sage at the ghats of the river Ganga. When he preached, crowds...
The author, an Ayurveda teacher pursued spirituality for several years, only to discover that real spirituality lay elsewhere The day you stop racing is the day you win the race – Bob Marley Sometimes, I feel suffocated by ‘spiritual’ and...
What use are Natural Laws to us? If everything is meant to be as is, then we are mere spectators and we don’t have to do anything but just live our own life. If our destiny is already written, are...
We seem to live on a mental diet of worries, tensions and anxiety. The writers teach us the benefits of calm, regular breathing and how this simple technique always relaxes the mind Years ago, when we were first starting our...
For some of the migrants, their bicycles have proved their saviour. They used it to cycle all the way home hundreds of kilometres away. The author recalls her own carefree cycling days back in the ‘70s in the context of...
Living consciously with Zen in your life is very much about living moment-to-moment in awareness and simply being true to your own nature. This way of Zen enriches your life and helps you discover your full potential: and as you...
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball – Frederic Ogden Nash, American writer and poet...
There is a well-known saying attributed to Jesus Christ: “Love your enemy.” (Matthew) This saying holds highest importance for fostering love. Love includes compassion, as both love and compassion are synonymous with each other. ‘Love your enemy’ means love everyone...
“The COVID crisis has made mankind acutely aware of the value of a single breath. Blessed if that breath is a lungful of clean air, or then doomed to a horrific end if the breath is contaminated with the coronavirus,”...
“Covid-19 eventually will peak and then dissipate. By God’s grace that will happen sooner rather than later. I am neither an epidemiologist nor clairvoyant, but I do know that eventually we will be, mostly, Covid free. While the coronavirus and...
The most dangerous type of ego is spiritual ego. Every person on a spiritual path has to be very careful about developing it. After many years of spiritual practice or reading many spiritual books, or sometimes even after reading one...
Who would have thought that life would change so dramatically? It has been over two months that we have been locked up in our homes, cooking, cleaning, working from home, cut off from our friends and in some cases, even...
Have you ever heard of the term, Spiritual Bypassing? It is also known as Spiritual Sublimation. They are relatively new terms in the field of psychology. They are one and the same thing and in brief, they refer to using...
