The Essential Role of Dispassion for Our Spiritual Growth

The Essential Role of Dispassion for Our Spiritual Growth

Let’s say that you realise that you need to get fit and decide to start exercising regularly. You buy a membership at a gym close by and you are looking forward to using their saltwater swimming pool and attending some of their classes such as yoga, Pilates and...
5 Qualities to Cultivate Your Heart

5 Qualities to Cultivate Your Heart

When you cultivate your heart, you grow in inner maturity and blossom as a better person. Merely being smart or having a lot of knowledge often grows the ego. But when you strive to cultivate your heart alongside your head, you grow in a balanced way. There are five...
3 Obstacles in Meditation and How to Overcome Them

3 Obstacles in Meditation and How to Overcome Them

The mind itself presents the biggest obstacles in meditation. Outer things such as the proper posture, place, time and seat can be easily rectified to facilitate your practice. But once you sit down and try to meditate, you realise that your own mind poses the...
Humility—an Essential Quality for Your Spiritual Path

Humility—an Essential Quality for Your Spiritual Path

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you have got it, you have lost it. —Swami Chinmayananda Isn’t it strange that someone can be proud of being humble? True humility is a subtle inner quality that is expressed sincerely and spontaneously with total...
The Way to Forgive and Be Free

The Way to Forgive and Be Free

No one is perfect, without flaws or weaknesses. Everyone makes mistakes. Holding resentment, grudges and unforgiveness in your heart because of what others have said and done only backfires on you. It damages your relationships, health and peace of mind. It’s far more...

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