What Does Your Life Stand For?
LISTENING to Gheorghe Zamfir’s Lonely Shepherd, I know God is going to take my mind’s heart off to some distant galaxy that has its best view of my life as I live it right now. Isn’t it peculiar how far we need to go from our inner lives in order to see the inner life for what it is?
Honour Your True SelfWhen you get an opportunity to have time to yourself, do you struggle with a seemingly endless list of things you think you should be doing? What is there about caring for, and spending time with, ourselves that sends our self-guilt into overdrive? Has our family and social conditioning been so effective that we believe that our first priority always has to be something or someone else? Or, are we avoiding the most important relationship in our lives – the one with ourselves?
WHAT are the advantages and dispensations for faith? What, in this life, can we cling to in order that our faith may prove worthy of its own regard in this life? Here are seven ways faith, overall, helps us to live the overcoming life.
Why, From Heaven, We May Wish to Have Suffered MoreNobody sits through a life of pain and enjoys it. Everyone wants a life of joy, of hope, of success, and of the best comfort they can afford. But we might imagine heaven as an upside down reality. Heaven may well reward those most who have suffered most. This would be consistent with our Lord’s observations. It would fit with the justice of all things. Those who deserve most peace in heaven are those who had least peace here.
The Battle Is Not YoursYou can’t be worried about what other people are doing even if it’s affecting you directly or indirectly. The world is an evil place and so are the people in it. If you think you got haters you probably do but everything that you become aware of does not need to be addressed. The battle is not yours it’s the Lord’s.
The Miracle And The Mind: FragmentsIn this fourth article in the series on the “miracle” and the “mind,” we are going to discuss how the unkindness of specialness is translated by the ego into making the Sonship appear fragmented. While nothing is actually fragmented or separate in reality, the mind (because everything is in the mind) has the appearance of being fragmented because of the projected forms which are nothing more than ego judgments of specialness, uniqueness and individuality. These are used to make us stand out as special in a crowd of sameness and thus they divide the Sonship. This speaks to the very heart the one problem: The separation. These judgments maintain it. No one is different. Everyone is the same regardless.
Shri Yantra or Shri Chakra is commonly seen sacred geometry in Indian households. People often do not know the religious and spiritual aspect of Shri Yantra. This article tends to answer basic questions about Shri Yantra such as what is Shri Yantra? and whats is its place in Hinduism?
Three Stages of Faith Toward Spiritual MasteryFaith, or having complete and unshakable confidence things will turn out okay, is a powerful spiritual practice. Along with gratitude, faith helps you make the most of your fate. Typically, those on the path to self-actualization experience three stages of faith.
Past Lives – Are They Still Affecting You Now?Have you ever observed two siblings who have completely different personalities? You wonder how it can be possible that they react so differently to things, when they grew up in the same environment with the same parents, right? Let’s take a bigger picture spiritual view of whom these children are.
Spiritual Progress – The Antidote to GravityIf we face the escalator of life that is forever moving us downward, then we must have a means to continually overcome its movement. More importantly, if we are to make progress despite its movement, we will need an increasingly progressive path.
Angels, Spiritual Warfare, and Eternity in Your Real LifeAs a spiritual director, de Sales would necessarily plumb the depths of spiritual experience of those he was helping; using techniques of spiritual enquiry that made people focus on their experience of the divine. A lot of such material is unearthed in how the Word of God mediates within the experience of the real life of a disciple ardent on spiritual intimacy with their Lord.
A Bevy Full of Blessings Over You and YoursGRANTED the special bond there is given to care for oneself, others, and for each other, there is blessing that may be prayed over us, others, and for each other. This is, as we say, the privilege of care that we have been given, to love, to live, to be, to enjoy, to sow, and to reap. Blessing is a very special accord. It is a solidarity with God that we might only enjoy – either in the giving or in the receiving. Blessing is oneness, a unity, a sprinkling of unanimity; that has the purposes of unequivocal love.



