According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world – and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative…
Tag: Spiritual Development
PEACE IN MY SOUL
Oh my soul, find peace in the stillness. In the dark silhouette of tree on sky, mountain on the fire in the clouds, find the calm you are choking for. Listen now, slow the beat and listen, all things will find their way to you, all things will settle and the lacks will flood over…
Oneness With All Life – Prayer
Sweet Spirit: We have used Your gifts of intelligence to create interesting, sometimes wonderful and occasionally frightening technologies. Gadgets and inventions that can help, heal or destroy depending on how they are used. Now, we seek to harness the power of Love in order to guide our use of what we have created. Each day, we are more aware…
THE WORLD
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~ John Muir ~ Such a beautiful world God gave to us,…
PAIN IS INEVITABLE
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~ Dalai Lama ~ Unfortunately, pain is only one of many experiences that allows us to repeat our sufferings. Rather than interpreting it as a punishment, we can choose to see pain as just another bodily sensation. We certainly do not have to enjoy it, but we can strive to…
ANGER
Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. When it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems. Anger can be a good thing. It can give you a way to express negative feelings, or motivate you to find solutions. But in the heat of the moment, it’s easy to…
MISTAKES ARE A TEACHING TOOL
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off…
SELF IMPROVEMENT
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. ~ Aldous Huxley “Solitude makes us tougher toward ourselves and tenderer toward others; in both ways it improves our character,” noted philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Spend some time away from the crowd and the noise of life….
This is a New Day
This is the beginning of a new day. I can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it. I want…
ACCEPT REASON
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in…
THE NATURAL SYSTEM
The physical body is at work every moment, an array of mechanisms with a brilliance of design and efficiency our human efforts have never begun to match. Our hearts beat, our lungs breathe, our ears hear, our hair grows. And we don’t have to make them work – they just do. Planets revolve around the…
MIRACLES IN OUR LIFE
Walk in peace. Be undisturbed and unperturbed: all is in God’s plan. Never doubt this. Bring God into your life, and you will see miracles. ~ White Eagle (The Quiet Mind) Miracles are there for the asking. Instead of trying harder to reach God, he tells us how we can begin a relationship with him right now….
THE SEED OF FREEDOM
The seed of freedom must be planted in the innermost being of man, but like the Prodigal Son, man must make the great discovery for himself. ~ The Science of Mind, Page 25 ~ Freedom comes not from what is gained, but from what is let go. Real freedom is freedom from fear, where you’re…
HAMMERING
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow ~ If we only have a hammer, we narrow our choices of what will help the hammer solve the problem. We tend to notice things that are similar, even if they’re not exactly the same. That is…
GIVING BACK
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~ Albert Einstein ~ Giving back is one of the easiest and most rewarding things you can do to better the world. Recycling, for example, is one of the easiest ways to…
YOUR SPIRITUAL GARDEN
All that is required now is that you continue to till the soil of your soul. Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming. ~ Jean Houston (A Passion for the Possible) …
DEEPAK CHOPRA on SUCCESS (Video)
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. ~ Deepak Chopra ~ “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;…
CHANGE AND GROWTH
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. ~ Ralph Ellison ~ If you feel you need change in your life, start by focusing on one task at a time. Focusing on just one goal will help you to grow and to achieve. While it might seem very difficult, focusing…
LOVE YOURSELF INTO WELL-BEING
You can’t punish yourself into change. You can’t whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being. ~ Susan Skye ~ Thinking well of ourselves may protect both the heart and immune system. High self-esteem makes us feel safer when faced with threats, which tends to be related to social status rather than…
INNERMOST SELF
Sweet Spirit: Thank you for the opportunities each day brings to me for adventure, change and growth. As I begin to quiet myself, I reflect on the hidden truth that dwells within my innermost self. There I find cause for celebration; for there, I can find out more and more of who I am at…
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth. ~ Rachel Carson Those of…
LIFE IS GOOD
The universe is sending you the right everything. You won’t realize this until you fully show up in the situation the way it is. In other words, whatever the circumstance, if you assume that the circumstance is perfect, then you live fully within that circumstance. How can I be the best I can be within the circumstance that is…
GROWTH – MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make everything rosy. The truth is, it means inviting everything into our lives that will force us to grow – and growth can be messy. The purpose of life is to grow into our perfection. ~ Marianne Williamson ~…
UNDERSTANDING WHO YOU ARE!
Being familiar with yourself is a form of knowledge, and it, too, doesn’t require understanding. You may get to know the images that crowd your dreams and see how they change from one period to the next, but all the while you may not have a clue as to what they mean. I took it…