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2010: Ten Ways to Nurture Your Spiritual Life

‘by Deepak Chopra

Intention is the starting point of any spiritual path. Intention includes will and purpose, aspiration and highest vision. If you set your intention toward material existence, that will grow instead. Once you plant the seed of an intention, your souls journey will unfold automatically. Here are several basic intentions that mark a spiritual life.’, ‘I want to feel gods presence. This intention is rooted in the discomfort of being isolated and separate. You can mask it by developing friendships and family ties.

Enlightenment

2003: Enlightenment and the Body of Light

by John White

When our research took us into the mind-stretching realms of the highest yogic attainment, we were happy to be able to rely on our dear friend and fellow dharma naut John White for guidance. White, intrepid explorer and tireless documenter of the highest in human potential, has written extensively about an evolutionary shift in consciousness that he sees transforming humanity.

Mother Earth

The Tree Calendar & the Wheel of the Year

‘This article has been borrowed from Anna Fraser”s writing for the series of Mother Nature”s Celtic Tree Remedies, which Anna created. the celtic connection

There is a healing tradition, once practiced widely in the Northern hemisphere, both by native Americans, as well as by the Celts and other people of Northern Europe.

The core of this therapeutic tradition was simply to stay in tune with the whole of our extended body, mind and spirit, in other words: Nature.

Spiritual Ceremonies

Going to a Heavenly Ceremony

‘We are traveling very fast. It is very peaceful. The clouds drift by far below us. The oceans seem very blue. He says, “Come on, let”s go back to the heavens you have visited before.” It does not seem far. We seem to descend. I can see the vast plain in the distance as we approach it.’, ‘The great plain is very bare compared with the gardens I have seen in other places. A procession is coming. It stretches for a long way in the distance. There seems to be no hurry.

Awakening

2000: Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening

by Annarita

1 Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet, waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day. There is something called the Triad Sleep Pattern that occurs for many: you sleep for about 2-3 hours, wake up, go back to sleep for another couple of hours, wake again, and go back to sleep again. For others, the sleep requirements have changed. You can get by on less sleep. Lately I have been experiencing huge waves of energy running into my body from the crown.

Spiritual Paths

1936: Continue to develop your Spiritual imagination

As the cultivation of your spiritual imagination will deepen your consciousness and attune your mind to the illumination and inspiration of your soul, it would be well for you to continue to devote some time daily to this means of soul expression. By this time no doubt you have gained the ability to imagine the flowers, the children and their pets, and your loved ones as self-luminous forms. Each time you sit down for a quiet meditation withdraw your mind from your immediate surroundings, or from the thoughts you want to escape for a while, by beginning to imagine the

Spiritual Principles & Laws

The 15 Laws of Life

By Swami Vivekananda

1. Love is the Law of Life

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love”s sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

2. It is Your Outlook That Matters

It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds.

Spiritual Paths

2000: VEDANTA IN AMERICA: Where We’ve Been and Where We Are

Pravrajika Vrajaprana is a nun of Sarada Convent, Santa Barbara at the Vedanta Society of Southern California; she is the author of Vedanta: A Simple Introduction.

This article originally appeared in the February, 2000 issue of Prabuddha Bharata.

“In order to promote the kingdom,” writes Paul Knitter – former Divine Word missionary and current professor of theology at an American Catholic university – ”Christians must witness to Christ.

Spiritual Paths

2000: The Book of Truth

I feel the downward pull of counter-clockwise energies. Thus I change my consciousness by inner command, and the Spiritual Forces from a Higher Source change my personal energies to now rotate clockwise and so the upward arising vortexian transportation begins. I am looking and moving upward, my right fist clenched raised above me in determination. I soon reach a Tower of Crystal Purity, all its walls composed of Circular, Radiant, Iridescent Stained Glass Windows, each one a living scene of some great Mystical Truth.