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Friday, 19 September 2014

7 Spiritual Thoughts to Make your Day Better

Embarking on the path to spirituality may not be the easiest but is certainly is the most fulfilling. People have difficulties embracing their inner spirituality because the everyday stressors get the best of them and finding peace and happiness in the little joys of life can seem like a lot of work, and results don’t seem all that gratifying. The thing that people fail to understand is that spirituality doesn’t simply happen overnight. It’s a step-by-step process; there are ways through which you can get more spiritual everyday.

1. “A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” ― Paul Klee

We should make the most of the days that pass by, because every day you sit around being sad or blue, is a day wasted. Take it upon yourself to do something different everyday, something that makes you feel happy and blessed for the life that you have, and one of these days you will find your calling.

The Alchemy of Happiness (Part 3)

A person may follow a religion and yet not come to the realization of truth. But of what use is his religion to him if he is not happy? Religion does not mean depression and sadness. The spirit of religion should give happiness. God is happy. He is the perfection of love, harmony, and beauty. A religious person should be happier than one who is not religious. If a person who professes religion is always melancholy his religion is disgraced. The form has been kept, but the spirit lost. If the study of religion and mysticism does not lead to real joy and happiness, it may just as well not exist, for then it does not help to fulfill the purpose of life. The world today is sad and suffering as the result of terrible wars. The religion which answers the demand of life today is one which invigorates and gives life to souls, which illuminates the heart of man with the divine light which is already there. Not necessarily by any outer form, though for some a form may be helpful, but by showing that happiness which is the desire of every soul.

The Alchemy Of Happiness (Part 1)

SOUL means happiness or bliss itself. It is not that happiness belongs to the soul; it is that the soul itself is happiness. Today we often confuse happiness with pleasure; but pleasure is only an illusion, a shadow of happiness; and in this delusion man may pass his whole life, seeking after pleasure and never finding satisfaction. There is a saying that man looks for pleasure and finds pain. Every pleasure seems happiness in outward appearance; it promises happiness, for it is the shadow of happiness, but just as the shadow of a person is not the person though representing his form, so pleasure represents happiness but is not happiness in reality.

Human Soul: The Path to God

Soul is in all objects, both things and beings, but when it is recognized as soul, then it becomes a soul. Soul is an entity which differs totally from the physical body. It is a subtle, ecclesiastical, enlightened living and moving body which penetrates into the depths of the organs and flows into them like the water in the rose or the oil in the olive or the fire in the coal. As long as these organs remain able to accept the impressions of this subtle body, the soul remains attached to these organs and provides them with feeling and movement. But when these organs are spoiled because of the dominance of diseased elements upon it, and they are no longer able to accept the impressions of the soul, it leaves the body and heads towards the world of the souls.

The soul is not contained within us like water in a cup, or like knowledge which enters our memory or mind. It is more like sunlight reflected on a window at sunset, or an image reflected in a mirror. But if the mirror is dirty, nothing will show in it.

Thursday, 18 September 2014

Be Still, My Soul, Be Still

THE SOUL WITH MIND AND BODY

The body is the vehicle of the mind, formed by the mind. As the mind, which is the vehicle for the soul, is formed by the soul. The body, in other words, may be called a vehicle of the vehicle. The soul is the life and personality in both. The mind seems alive, not by its own life, but by the life of the soul. So it is with the body, which appears alive by the contract of the mind and the soul. When both are separated from it, it becomes a corpse.

The question of whether the mind works upon the body or the body works upon the mind may be answered thus: it is natural that the mind should work upon the body, but usually the body works upon the mind. This happens when a person is drunk or when he is delirious with fever. In the same way the relation of the soul and the mind may be understood. It is natural that the soul must work on the mind, but usually the mind works upon the soul.

Who Am “I”?: The Guide to One’s Ego

When we think of that sense, that feeling, or that inclination that makes us affirm the word, “I,” we realize that it is difficult to point out what this “I” is, what its character is, for it is something that is beyond human comprehension. That is why a person who wishes to explain, even to himself, what it is, points to what is nearest to him, declaring, “This is the one whom I have called, ‘I’.”

Therefore, every soul who has, so to speak, identified itself with anything has identified itself with the body, its own body, because that is the thing that one feels and realizes to be immediately next to one and that is intelligible as one’s being.