We all know that honesty is the best policy. But, sometimes, telling the truth can get us or others into trouble. There is an old Indian tale about a group of forest bandits who used to steal money and valuables from passing travellers. One night, while they all...
The mind is the filter through which we gain experiences of the world. Sense perceptions, joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure, success and failure, gain and loss, are all experienced in our mind. It is a fact that without the mind, there cannot be any experience. In...
The ego is commonly thought of as having an overly high opinion of yourself. From the standpoint of spirituality, however, the ego has a different meaning. Vedanta, the spiritual science of life, explains that the ego is your sense of separateness and individuality....
Are you experiencing a situation in your life that is causing you stress and pain? Others around you appear to have escaped or don’t have it as bad as you. You are perplexed because there are no obvious reasons for your suffering. You feel as though you have been left...
Life is a series of unbroken experiences. Experiences are the building blocks of our lives. Each experience is registered is our consciousness as thoughts. It is said that the average person has over 50 thoughts per minute. That’s nearly one thought per second. We are...
The word ‘intuition’ comes from the Latin roots tuit and tut which mean ‘to teach’. The prefix, ‘in’ means ‘not’. So, intuition is knowing something not from any teaching or instruction. You just know something without reasoning, logic or evidence. Where does this...
