Overcoming Rejection

August 3, 2024

The pain of rejection is a deeply held emotional disturbance. It is the profound sorrow that comes from feeling excluded, pushed out, sidelined, and not accepted. So, what is the best way to cope with those emotions invoked by rejection? What tools can we use? Most people have experienced some...

Context is King

July 13, 2024

There is a reason why we are where we are, and there is a reason why we have certain people in our lives. Believe it not, we have attracted these souls, to where we are and into our life. These souls are part of our life to help us learn...

Being Carefree

April 6, 2024

When I am truthful… then I am powerful… then I am happy… and then I am carefree. There is a strong correlation between truth and being happy and carefree. The one who has nothing to hide is free to express any emotion. The one who has a guilty conscience is...

Become a Candle and Light up the World

February 24, 2024

Our world today needs so much light. In the midst of all the darkness there seems to be in the world, all of us are trying to hold on to the light we have inside. That does not seem a very easy thing to do. If you think of taking...

Happiness is home-made

February 3, 2024

Most of us never take the time to find out what real happiness is. Happiness is home-made; It is not like fast food that you can go and buy on the spur of the moment. You can, of course, but that does not mean it will be healthy, or nutritious....

Freedom from the bondage of our roles

January 20, 2024

The sages and saints of India recognise how complicated and binding relationships are. This is why they renounce all of them, even those renunciates who have wives and children, because the only relationship they adhere to is the one with God, the Supreme. The more relationships we have the more...

The millionaire mindset

November 18, 2023

Contrary to popular opinion, millionaires (these days, only those who have accumulated $25-30 million are considered rich) have not inherited their wealth, they are self-made, often come from ordinary families, many dropped out of school, and they work very hard, up to 60 hours a week, even when they have...

The secret art of not wanting

September 30, 2023

If everything I want is right here inside of me, then why are we always looking for something more? We spend time wanting one thing or another, one person or another, one achievement or another, when in fact everything ‘out there’ will never complete us or fulfil us. We think...

Criticism stops spiritual progress

June 17, 2023

There is always a little voice inside us that will get in the way of our progress; attempting to slow us down or sabotage our good efforts. This is still part of the same self, but the side that ‘I the soul’ would rather not choose to see or hear....

Do not let the fallout land in the heart

June 9, 2023

Self-respect is not a matter of what you are doing in your life, but rather of how you are doing it. This requires that you bring quality and virtue into each action, whatever that action maybe.” -- Dadi Janki When negative things happen to us, we often get so consumed...