Exploring your deeper self brings understanding. You begin to create the life you want.
Discovering Spirituality is a guide to knowing who you really are. Use it as a map to discover your inner light, to find peace and restore balance and as a chart to change the course of your life and to have the courage to achieve your goals.
Give it to those you love to help them find their own path and keep it close at hand to remind yourself of your true potential.
Read, meditate upon and undertake its lessons. Renew your spiritual journey through its pages to arrive at a better way of living.
Giving
Spirituality in everyday life
The quality of thought creates the quality of life
Learning
Patience
The power of faith
Honesty
Humility is not subservience
A return to the roots
Raja Yoga meditation
The wonder of silence
Knowing God
Purity and happiness
Truth
Blame
The power of forgiveness
The spirit of generosity
Love and knowledge
Balance
Freedom, justice and love
With habits, never give in or you lose your dignity. With the self, never give up or you lose your destiny. With others, never give your worst or you will never develop your best. A saying: ‘What you give is what you receive.’ The lesson: Just to give.
Spirituality is about knowing how to live. Through this knowledge comes happiness. True spirituality is not a system of worship or ritual. It is a positive attitude towards yourself and others, which makes life a joy rather than a struggle. All you need for a happy life can be a fulfilling relationship and a sense of purpose. Your happiness is not caused by external things but comes from inside. Material wealth will not bring you happiness or unhappiness.
There is no point looking only to the external world as a means of achieving happiness, without examining your personal values and attitudes first. Happiness cannot be found by simply hoping for the best. There are no short cuts. No one else and nothing outside yourself can create a permanent state of wellbeing for you. Creating this is your own responsibility. The material world can contribute to your happiness, guide and inspire you, but ultimately life is what you make it.
Exploring your deeper self brings understanding. With this understanding you begin to create the life you want. Without this understanding you cannot find release from crisis.
In the world today there seems to be a crisis, a dead-end or a disappointment at every turn. But life is more than just surviving and overcoming obstacles. It is a joyful experience of love and meaning.
Think of a seed. It is like a point; tiny and compact, it holds all potential. A thought is a seed, a seed that can be either positive or negative, depending on our mood, attitude and character. Our thoughts create our feelings and attitudes, our consciousness. Human consciousness is the capacity to think, to reason, to feel and to express. All of this begins with just one thought.
Do you ever stop to observe your thoughts? Do you ever think of putting on the brakes, putting a stop to your thoughts? Most of us allow our thoughts to scatter and wander. Uncontrolled, scattered thoughts move like a speeding car and, unless you brake, you’ll crash. An uncontrolled mind is tense, worried and stressed.
You need to put on the brake, if your mind is to work naturally. A natural mind is peaceful and a peaceful mind brings clarity. When you see things clearly, you do not have wasteful thoughts. Your mind becomes more economical, when it is not burdened with unnecessary thoughts. Thinking too much about others — what they did, what they should have done, what they said, what you wish they had said and why they spoke at all — robs the mind of its inherent serenity.
Thinking too much is like eating too much. The heaviness makes it impossible to remain light and flexible. You and I get stuck on little things and gradually they become huge things we can’t shake off. Often, when we think too much, we fantasise and overreact, creating negative feelings.