29 Aug A Decent Regret – August 30 2020
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The literal, absolute definition of the word 'sin' is 'error'...
Author: Jeff Kober
28 Aug Under the Streetlamp – August 29 2020
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Tomorrow's bills are not the problem. The dissolution of the physical body is not a problem. Loss of Now is the problem, or rather: the core delusion that turns a mere situation, event, or emotion into a personal problem and into suffering. Loss of Now...
27 Aug Dark Night of the Soul – August 28 2020
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Paradoxically, the dark night of the soul is often a sign of significant spiritual progress for it is not really the soul (higher Self) but the ego that is in the dark. Some comfort can be obtained by recalling the spiritual dictum that one can...
26 Aug Come to Your Senses II – August 27 2020
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Mindfulness is a "coming to your senses" that moves closer and closer to the fore, quite spontaneously, when you regularly set aside the time to practice. It allows you to experience the world--calmly and nonjudgmentally--directly through your senses. It gives you a tremendous sense of...
25 Aug The Spiritual Life – August 26 2020
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"How am I to start upon this process of true self-knowledge?"...
24 Aug Fullness Within – August 25 2020
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In this circus of life that we go through, the peace, happiness, completeness and the stillness we seek lie within us. That ‘inner essence’, which is purna (fullness), is in every one of us. Sri M Happiness never can be found outside the self. It only can...
23 Aug No Negative Thoughts – August 24 2020
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Make it a point in your life: Let there be no negative thought in the mind. If you really want peace of mind, don't ever harbor any negative thought even if it be true. It does not matter whether it is true or not, t The Yoga...
22 Aug 2 – August 23 2020
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2 by Lao Tzu (604-531 BCE) Beauty and ugliness have one origin. Name beauty, and ugliness is. Recognizing virtue recognizes evil. Is and is not produce one another. The difficult is born in the easy, long is defined by short, the high by the low. Instrument and voice achieve one harmony. Before and after have...
21 Aug Samskaras – August 22 2020
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Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character: a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character. Swami Vivekananda The ancient teachings of Vedanta say the goal of...
20 Aug The Real You – August 21 2020
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You are the consciousness which is the witness of all the drama, watching in amusement as the ego plays its games and dons different masks at different times. The real you is that ever-blissful, unchanging, blessed consciousness. Sri M There is the real me. And there is...