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A Word On Faith – Sayings About Life
Faith is light in the darkness of your lonely moments, it is your anchor of peace and strength.
The Silent Witness
When you learn to observe yourself and your thoughts, you become like incense. The more life burns you the more scent you emit.
Why do Your Plans Fail?
No matter how fascinating your dream, how great your plan, you must be in touch with reality if you want to succeed.
Seeing Past Yourself
The green mountains, the blue sky, a beautiful sunrise, it's all there. You will only see the beauty though when you learn to see past yourself.
What is Your Opinion About Yourself?
A mind that's turned inward leads to contentment and virtues bloom in a contented heart like flowers do in spring.
Compassion is Unreasonable
Here's a beautiful short story from the life of Jesus Christ with an important lesson on compassion.
The Only Thing You Ever Need to Know
What I'm sharing with you today could be your mental and emotional anchor in most difficult situations in life.
How Do You Know What You Know?
Rocks of opinion sit there gathering the moss of emotion and distort your view of reality. They hinder your growth.
The Confusion of a Teenager
Making the right choices at the right time sometimes makes all the difference between being a pearl or simply a drop in the ocean.
Is Suffering Really Necessary?
The lamp of faith diffuses the darkness of suffering. You begin to see what's beneath, what's around.
Nine States of Awareness
In this post I elucidate the nine states of awareness as propounded by Patanjali and other great yogis like Vyasa.
What Type of Meditator are You?
The rewards of meditation are directly proportional to the intensity and quality of your practice. Here's something to think about.
The Most Difficult Emotion
A beautiful story from the life of Buddha gives a profound message of mastering the most difficult emotion.
Why are We Unhappy?
Why is happiness fleeting and elusive like the summer clouds whereas our sorrows and miseries feel like giant rocks and boulders?
Raising a Child with Special Needs
Rather than being in a warm and sunny place, sometimes we end up in a cold and dark place. It has its own beauty. Such is life.
