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- Wisdom of Kimitake Hiraoka - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloKimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 January 14th, 1925 – November 25th, 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), was a Japanese author, playwright, actor, poet, model, Shintoist, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his ritual suicide. Below we list some words of ...
Views: 16 - Personal and Spiritual Growth: Six Easy Tips - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2025 from Paul JenkinIt can be easy to lose sight of the importance of personal and spiritual growth. Yet, this journey is one of the most fulfilling paths we can embark on. It’s a continuous process of learning, evolving, and reconnecting with our higher selves. Whether you’re just starting out or have been on this ...
Views: 17 - How to Donate? - by Submitted on May 26, 2025 from Dada BhagwanWorrying that your money will be used up cannot preoccupy you. Whatever money is spent is fine. The spending of money is encouraged because it destroys your greed and allows you to keep giving. Upyoga is awareness. When you do something auspicious or give to charity, give with the awareness ...
Views: 25 - The Spirit of the Yoga of Works - by Submitted on May 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhile we live and act from the standpoint of the individual ego-personality, we measure and respond to everything based on how it impacts us personally and directly, and judge things based on that impact. This leads us to treat as positive, those events and interactions that satisfy our desires, ...
Views: 34 - Shifting the Motive Power of Action from the External Being to the Psychic Being - by Submitted on May 01, 2025 from santosh krinskyFor most people the impulsion to action comes from a need, desire or ambition of some sort. If these are removed, the individual can become depressed and fall into a state that lacks motivation and thereby reduces their energy when it comes to doing anything. We frequently see people, (or ...
Views: 33 - Marriage’s Market of Pride - by Submitted on May 01, 2025 from Dada BhagwanMayankbhai's son's wedding was being celebrated with pomp and splendour. As Ashokbhai and his wife Kantaben got down of the taxi, they were awe-struck. Mayankbhai's farm house was lavishly decorated. A grand high entrance, colorful flower vines, royal Moroccan theme decorations and glittering ...
Views: 36 - Spiritually Effective Work Depends on the Inner Attitude - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhenever we act in the world, whether it is a job, or any kind of activity that involves the expression of energy in the external world, whether physical, vital, mental, etc. we generally do so with a particular ambition, motivation, desire or need. It could be based on physical needs for food, ...
Views: 33 - Concentration of Conscious Force Through Work Can Bring Deeper Realisations - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the Taittiriya Upanishad, Sri Aurobindo translates the term tapasya variously as ‘concentration in thought’ or ‘concentration of force’. Elsewhere he aligns the terms chit-shakti as ‘consciousness-force’, co-equal with the principles of sat, existence and ananda, bliss as the supreme ...
Views: 35 - Treating All Work As Karma Yoga - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen the spiritual aspiration awakens in an individual, he often feels like he has to leave his employment and take up some work that is more ‘spiritual’. He tends to equate the type of work with some ill-defined spiritual nature. Thus, we frequently see spiritual people, and organizations, take ...
Views: 35 - Spiritual Development Can Occur Regardless of One’s Activities in the World - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyFrom early childhood we are inculcated with the idea of achieving success, becoming foremost and occupying a position of power, prestige or wealth in the world. Parents drum this idea into the mind of their children that they need to study, attain degrees, choose suitable (lucrative) careers, ...
Views: 34 - Self-Dedication to the Divine Through Work - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe ego-personality almost always interprets external activity, work, by an arbitrary measure of value, in many cases, monetary, but in some cases, based on the benefits provided to the society. Religious and spiritual institutions frequently take up work that is considered to be charitable in ...
Views: 31 - The Yoga of Nature, Spiritual Sadhana and the Transformation of Action Into a Conscious Expression of the Divine Will - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2025 from santosh krinskyAll life, our entire existence, whether we are actively involved in a conscious spiritual discipline, or living a ‘normal’ life in the world following the demands of our needs, desires, relationships and ambitions, etc. is a field of growth, experience and develop. We respond to opportunities, ...
Views: 32 - Action According to One’s Own Svabhava and Svadharma - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople who take up spiritual life frequently believe that they should change their line of work and focus in the external world. In some cases, this is a recognition of the inner being’s guidance as the individual awakens to his true calling. In other cases, however, this is a mistaken belief ...
Views: 34 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 4 - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is only in still waters that we can see our reflection. Swami Vivekananda in his lectures on Raja Yoga, describes the mind-stuff (chitta), and how impressions, desires, observations and thoughts all disturb the stillness of the mind-stuff. He also describes methods of bringing it to a status ...
Views: 31 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 3 - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2025 from santosh krinskyToday’s world provides people with both an obstacle and an opportunity when they try to follow their chosen or cherished path in life. The obstacle is based on societal requirement that individuals take up a productive form of work in the world to earn enough money to support their needs for ...
Views: 33 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 2 - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2025 from santosh krinskyOne reason we do not have a sense of our purpose or role in the world, generally, is that we do not examine deeply our inner predilections or the trajectory of our lives. We interpret our lives based on external criteria and motives without appreciating that there is another driving force behind ...
Views: 33 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 1 - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyDannion Brinkley told the story in his book Saved By the Light. He was a mercenary, a hired killer. He was struck by lightning. He was pronounced clinically dead. He returned to life. He knew, at that moment, that he was ‘sent back’ to accomplish a task, a mission. He left behind his prior life ...
Views: 31 - Wisdom of Hesiod - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHesiod (circa 1200 BC), was an ancient Greek poet whose works are among the earliest surviving examples of Greek literature. He is best known for two major poems: Works and Days, offering practical advice on farming and morality, and Theogony, a cosmological epic detailing the origins of the ...
Views: 35 - A Simple Formula For Finding Your Life Purpose - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2025 from Paul JenkinIdentifying your life purpose is not as easy as most people think. Many of us will just have a general description or an idea such as being a good person, a good parent, friend and more. We all want to be a good parent, friend and a good person all at the same time, but in finding your life ...
Views: 51 - The Existential Crisis of Humanity and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThank you for your interest in this critical issue for the future survival of our entire human race. There is a positive way forward for humanity as we face the intense challenges before us. When we are under intense pressure we have the impetus to make needed changes. That is the lesson of ...
Views: 245 - Wise words from Francis Ford Coppola - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloFrancis Ford Coppola (April 7, 1939–) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest directors of all time, having received five Academy Awards and six Golden Globes. Patton, The Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got ...
Views: 298 - What do you think the purpose of life is? Is there a such thing as true happiness? - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2024 from Dada BhagwanIn this world, each one defines his purpose of life, depending on the station one has arrived at while on his journey of spiritual evolution; this signifies one’s spiritual development. Therefore, while for some, the purpose of life is to merely enjoy the pleasures of five senses; for few ...
Views: 335 - Wisdom of Hannah Arendt - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German-born philosopher and historian, and was one of the most prominent political theorists in the last century. She wrote extensively on the topics of totalitarianism, and the nature of power and evil. The Origins of Totalitarianism and ...
Views: 349 - is there a solution to the Israel/Palestine Problem? - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2023 from santosh krinskyis there a solution to the Israel/Palestine Problem? There is so much history and so much hatred built up. Acts of overt terrorism, including attacks on civilian targets, women, children, etc. are not justifable. The Israelis righfully point out that they have a right to defend themselves, ...
Views: 398 - Wisdom of René Descartes - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloRené Descartes (March 31, 1596– February 11,1650) was a French scientist, mathematician and philosopher. He pioneered analytic geometry, is often considered the father of modern philosophy, and contributed greatly to the Age of Reason. Below we list some words of wisdom from René ...
Views: 399 - Wise Words from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (July 1, 1646–November 14, 1716) was a German scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He developed core concepts of integral and differential calculus and was a pioneer in the realm of mechanical calculators. He is known as one of the founders of computer ...
Views: 389 - Distinguishing the Ordinary Motives of the Vital Being from Spiritual Motivation - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature has an innate drive towards fulfillment and satisfaction of desire. Since most individuals are oriented towards the outer life, the fulfillment comes through attaining desirable objects of the vital focus. This can be accumulation of wealth, it can be family, fame or achievement ...
Views: 504 - The Nature of Karma Yoga - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is a common conception, and a tempting one, to expect that by taking up a certain type of charitable work, or even service to support a particular religion or spiritual path, one is practicing a form of karma yoga. All of these things may have enormous benefit in the outer world, and may ...
Views: 551 - The Value and Rationale for the Yoga of Works — Karma Yoga - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature of man is a core existential element of our existence. In the past, those who took up serious spiritual practice frequently recognised both the power of the vital and the difficulty of bringing it under some kind of managed and focused control, and thus, they attempted to ...
Views: 536 - Dynamic Meditation - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna poses the question to Sri Krishna as to how one can know the spiritual man, how does he walk, how does he speak, how does he act… Spiritual practitioners pose similar types of questions about meditation, as to what is the right form of meditation, how does one site, ...
Views: 514 - The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Meditation - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual sits for meditation, does he come out of the meditation changed in some way? … or is meditation something like a state of ‘statis’ where time goes by, but nothing happens? Is the individual taking a ‘time out’ from life but not moving the purpose and focus of the life forward? ...
Views: 515 - Awaken to the World that Drags You Down - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2023 from Guy FinleyLong before it’s possible for us to be spiritually reborn, we must first awaken to ourselves. Awakening is the sudden realization that somehow or other what I took to be the only world isn’t the only world.. But in a true awakening, I recognize that there’s a world beneath me. And the ...
Views: 509(1 vote) - Obtaining a Clear Perception and Understanding of Life Purpose and Significance - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2022 from santosh krinskyIf we examine closely our mental state when we undertake activities with which we are familiar, experienced and educated, we see that our minds are sharp, our perceptions are detailed and our understanding is precise. We find it easiest to achieve this status with external things, although some ...
Views: 473 - Spiritual Intelligence - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2022 from William CottringerSpiritual Intelligence by Bill Cottringer “Spiritual Intelligence is seeing past what you are looking at; or better yet, it is seeing the unseeable and knowing the unknown.” The evolution of human intelligence involves using whole-brained intelligence, which is the blending all of ...
Views: 492 - Three Free Vids - Hyper Dispensation Jews Vs Gentiles Imbalanced Gospel - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2022 from James LowranceThe first video link at the end of this article, is to a free YouTube video about Bible teachers who excessively press the issue regarding divisions/differences between Jews and Gentiles. Salvation in Jesus Christ of the New Testament we now live in, was in-fact to the Jews first (Jesus "king of ...
Views: 523 - The story of co-creation of our Space of Love - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2022 from Yuri SmirnovThis may interesting to Anastasia (Ringing Cedars) readers who dream about co-creating their Kins domains: In our new article we are sharing our story, visions and reasons - why we gave up a hectare in an open field in favor of a smaller land plot in a settled village: ...
Views: 523 - Solving the Existential Crisis of Humanity Through the Evolution of Consciousness with Practical Applications - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2022 from santosh krinskySantosh Krinsky gave this talk to outline both the existential crisis we are facing in the world today, tying together numerous different symptoms into a view of the larger issues we are facing, as well as the causative factors and the direction for solving this crisis through the development of ...
Views: 555 - Wise Words of Marie Curie - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2022 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMarie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie (November 7th, 1867 – July 4th, 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who did pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win it twice, and the only person to win ...
Views: 489 - The Real Definition of Karma - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2022 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMore than 2000 years ago, the concept of karma was clearly defined in Buddhist teachings and Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata: Karma is inextricably linked to reincarnation and a person’s actions dictate the circumstances in his future lives. The concept is straightforward without much ...
Views: 555 - The Real Definition of Karma - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2022 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMore than 2000 years ago, the concept of karma was clearly defined in Buddhist teachings and Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata: Karma is inextricably linked to reincarnation and a person’s actions dictate the circumstances in his future lives. The concept is straightforward without much ...
Views: 527 - The Real Definition of Karma - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2022 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMore than 2000 years ago, the concept of karma was clearly defined in Buddhist teachings and Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata: Karma is inextricably linked to reincarnation and a person’s actions dictate the circumstances in his future lives. The concept is straightforward without much ...
Views: 505 - Free Video - Ancient Bible Targum Shows EARLY EARTH DESOLATION - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2022 from James LowranceI'm following up on my Genesis Gap teaching of only a few days ago https://youtu.be/6jEdIs-xN58 and I add in this one, a reading from an ancient Aramaic translation. This "Targum" was a translation by Ezra and other scribes, after the Babylonian conquest over Judea. This verse 2 of Genesis ...
Views: 559 - Tuning In to Your Soul's Purpose - by Submitted on May 04, 2022 from Estra Roell"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.” —Joseph Campbell When you tune into your soul’s purpose you feel fulfilled and have a clear sense of ...
Views: 619 - Free Vid: Holy Bible Says Our Lives Have MEANING AND PURPOSE - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2022 from James LowranceEven with the near mountain-moving love we have for our loved ones, being first of all our children and spouse, people can still question life's meaning and purpose. If we look at the Holy Bible, however, 1 John 4:8 says: - "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." (KJV). Even with ...
Views: 587 - Free Vid: BACKSLIDING a Dangerous Practice Christians Must Avoid - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2022 from James LowranceDoes the Holy Bible say people who become saved in Jesus Christ (born again - made new creatures in him), will never sin during their Christian lifetimes on Earth? No, in fact it tells Christians that if they say they have no sin, they are lying. But there is ongoing forgiveness-provision. 1 ...
Views: 563 - Who Is Jesus in Your Life? - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2022 from Sohag ChadDo you really know Jesus? If you really do, then why aren't you teaching others so they can come to know Him also? Do really know Jesus? I will suggest that if you do, then you know His love for you and others. If you really love Jesus, you are going to want others to know about Him the way you ...
Views: 633 - Are online crystal ball readings a good idea? - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2021 from Pearls of WisdomAre online crystal ball readings a good idea? It often depends on how seriously a person takes their life. Some can be very laid back and leave it to luck to sort out their aspirations and problems - of course, those are usually the ones whose life never improves and gets worse or stays bad and ...
Views: 594(1 vote) - Personal Adversity Famous Quotes - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2021 from Scott & Stephen PetulloAccording to conventional wisdom, any goal is achievable if you work hard. Alas, personal adversity sometimes squashes that promise. In such cases, all the benefits are through the journey, not the desired goal. Personal adversity frequently stems from things that you can’t control in ...
Views: 554 - Self-Love Affirmations and Why It is Perfectly Okay to Love Yourself - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2021 from Noah St JohnSelf-love always comes to mind whenever we talk about affirmations. It is funny to think that we always refer to affirmations to show our love for ourselves. It makes sense because we need an affirmation to assure that we love ourselves. It boosts our confidence to hear something uplifting. ...
Views: 592 - 7 Misconceptions About Life Purpose - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2021 from Estra RoellThere are many misconceptions about life purpose. Those misconceptions cause a lot of people to needlessly twist themselves into knots trying to figure out what they’re here for. Below are some common misunderstandings about purpose that I hope to clear up for you. 1. Not everyone has a ...
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