Spiritual affirmations are one of our most powerful tools for healing our body, mind, heart, and spirit. You can use these 31 inspiring affirmations to spiritualize every aspect of your daily life. Daily Affirmations This day shall be the best day of my life. Today I shall start with a new determination to dedicate my devotion forever at the feet of [...]
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Cultivating Happiness
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 [...]
How to Create a Meditation Garden to Reduce Stress and Increase Peace
Creating a meditation garden can be a delightful addition to your spiritual practice, both in the gardening itself and by just being in a garden. And it doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming. I live in the suburbs in a very small apartment. But I’m fortunate to have a fenced patio and a small amount of earth. I grow herbs and a rose in pots on the patio, [...]
Cultivating Compassion Will Make You Happier
Compassion means to have sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others and yourself. Being Compassionate Means ... We recognize that we’re all human beings with the same challenges and suffering. We don’t judge or criticize others because we can never know the whole story or what they’re really going through. We extend the same [...]
Friday Reflection—I Choose To Be Happy
Remember, no one can affect your happiness unless you, yourself, choose to be unhappy. If you have made up your mind to be happy, to keep your own inner happiness under all conditions, then no one can make you unhappy.Paramhansa Yogananda, East-West, January, 1934 I choose to be happy. I delight in the simple things in life. I take everything in stride and am thankful for [...]
