How to be practical and have faith on the spiritual path is depicted in this painting of yogananda
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

Living by Faith

Faith is much more practical than most people realize. There is an infinite reservoir of divine love and support, and if you open yourself to that flow it will sustain you.

Clarity Magazine, Coping with Loss, Overcoming Challenging Karma, Parenting and Education

The Death of a Son

The secret gift of the loss of a loved one is that you get catapulted into a world of expansive love. Along with feelings of deep human loss, I have experienced the gift of that boundless love.

Clarity Magazine, Daily Life

How To Bring Harmony to the Earth

Whatever our role, we must see ourselves as a part of the great divine whole and have compassion for our brothers and sisters who are acting in ignorance. This is often the missing element in the ecology and environmental movements.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

What Makes Something Wrong?

Are moral values truly arbitrary and subjective? Can we really say people can just do what they like, and that there are no personal consequences they will have to suffer, outside of the need to maintain social order?

Clarity Magazine, Happiness

Learn to Live Without Fear

We tend to think, “Gosh, there’s so much in life that’s unpredictable.” But we know of many devotees who have been in life-threatening situations and have felt only calmness.

Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth

Buddha and the Courtesan

One day, when the great Buddha and his disciples were resting in the cool shade of a tree, a courtesan approached him, attracted by the glowing body and face of the Master.

Clarity Magazine, Divine Love, Yoga Philosophy

Prayer-Demand for Removing the Cork of Ignorance

No more will I remain moving through the sea of cosmic consciousness—night and day, years, decades, and how many incarnations!—so close, yet never able to contact Thy sea.

Clarity Magazine, Daily Life, Yoga Postures

Why Is Yoga Important?

Yoga makes us more aware of ourselves as bodies of energy, not merely of material substance. The more aware we become that we are energy, the greater control we have in our lives.