Impatience is an obstacle on the spiritual path. It creates leaks in one’s flow of energy, leaving too little power at the end of the wire for constructive use.
Does Everyone Have a Special Life Purpose?
The truest way to discover your own life purpose is to attune yourself in meditation to the silent promptings of your inner soul. By this practice you will be subtly guided in the direction that you should take.
How to Grow Closer to God in a Busy Life
Much of our daily life is spent in work or in other outward activities, and our minds often become engrossed in what we are doing at the expense of the thought of God. Some sort of exercise is needed to help us form the habit of feeling His presence in everything we do.
Letters of Encouragement: How to Share Truth
That is what teaching should mean—not telling people what they should do or know, but offering the fruits of one’s own living in the humble hope that what one says will in some way prove useful in their lives.
What Kind of Victory Do You Want?
Victory is always desirable, but to define victory in terms of egoic fulfillments, and to claim personal credit every inch of the way, is almost an insult to spiritual truth. In a deeper sense it is even a kind of defeat.
Cling Inwardly to Love
Remember, when your love for God becomes a constant, silent yearning of your heart, all other things will melt away like morning mist before the rising sun.
How to Overcome the Tendency to Worry
Worry-consciousness not only creates problems where none really exist, but actually interferes with one’s efforts to resolve problems where they do exist.
Yoga Techniques vs Grace
Yoga techniques are a means of self-improvement, that we might make ourselves a more fit instrument to receive and express God’s love.
Change Your Mental Picture, Change Your Health
Remember, your body changes constantly. If you will change your mental “picture,” the incoming cells will fit themselves to the new pattern.
Hallucinogenic Drugs: Are They Spiritually Harmful?
Drugs seem to inspire a sort of spiritual self-centeredness, an attachment to experiences, that is the very opposite of self-giving. In the long run, they actually reduce one’s sensitivity to reality as a whole.