The Nature of True Happiness—How To Get It and Why The urge that drives people to seek a spiritual teaching has always been the simple yearning to experience more happiness. The drive for happiness is one of our most far-reaching and fundamental needs. We all want to be happy and to avoid suffering. A lot of the day-to-day things that we do, why we work, why we want [...]
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Healing from Within—Using The Power Of Choice
When I talk about inner healing, I’m not talking about the soul. Your soul doesn’t need healing. It is eternally perfect. Rather it needs releasing from the layers of impediments that obscure it. These impediments are largely of the mind and the heart—things like pride, or lack of confidence, or negativity. These negative thoughts and false desires lead us to make [...]
Why Do We Lose Our Inner Peace?
We all want inner peace. We imagine how it would feel to be free from the worries, cares and stress that seems to fill our lives. This is a false notion! We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. The Dalai Lama The good news is that inner peace can be cultivated and developed. But like anything worth-while, it does take [...]
5 Simple Ways To Gain Inner Peace No Matter How Busy You Are
Far too often as women, we place ourselves and our own self-care at the bottom of the pile, and it seems there is simply no space or time for us to develop even the simplest of routines that can help to bring us inner calm and contentment. In our fast-paced, hectic world, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed out. We have a never-ending to-do list, bills to [...]
Are You Suffering From The Disease Called “Busyness”?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past forty years, it’s pretty evident that technology runs our lives. We’ve willingly submitted to our new master. Once you’ve put that into perspective, it won’t be hard to understand why we’re so busy all the time. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David [...]