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  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 90 ) - In the New Testament it is taught, "Our Father who art in heaven"-- god living in the heavens separated from men. We are living on earth and He is living in heaven. Further on we find the teaching that He is a God immanent in nature; He is not only God in heaven, but on earth too.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 82 ) - So the only way is to give up all the fruits of work, to be unattached to them. Know that this world is not we, nor are we this world; that we are really not the body; that we really do not work. We are the Self, eternally at rest and at peace. Why should we be bound by anything?
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 69 ) - For those who believe in God there is another way, which is much less difficult. They give up the fruits of work unto the Lord; they work and are never attached to the results. Whatever they see, feel, hear, or do, is for Him. For whatever good work we may do, let us not claim any praise or benefit. It is the Lord's; give up the fruits unto Him.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 125 ) - Vedantists admit that the Atman or God is not only the efficient cause of this universe, but also the material cause. But they only say so in so many words. They do not really mean it,for they try to escape from their conclusions, in this way: They say there are three existences in this universe -- god, soul, and nature. Nature and soul are, as it were, the body of God, and in this sense it may be said that God and the whole universe are one.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 116 ) - It is not a very logical argument, as we all know; there is something childish about it, yet it is the only little bit of anything we can know about God from the external world, that this world required a builder. But this is no explanation of the universe. The materials of this world were before Him, and this God wanted all these materials,and the worst objection is that He must be limited by the materials. The builder could not have made a house without the materials of which it is composed. Therefore he was limited by the materials; he could only do what the materials enabled him to.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 101 ) - The whole of nature is worship of God. Wherever there is life, there is this search for freedom and that freedom is the same as God. Necessarily this freedom gives us mastery over all nature and is impossible without knowledge. The more we are knowing, the more we are becoming masters of nature.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 66 ) - What is Karma-Yoga? The knowledge of the secret of work. We see that the whole universe is working. For what? For salvation, for liberty; from the atom to the highest being,working for the one end, liberty for the mind, for the body,for the spirit. All things are always trying to get freedom, flying away from bondage. The sun,the moon,the earth,the planets, all are trying to fly away from bondage.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 106 ) - My sins, my sorrows, my actions, good and evil, I will offer unto Thee; do Thou take them and I will never forget." One moment I say, "Thy will be done," and the next moment something comes to try me and I spring up in a rage.
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 70 ) - Karma-Yoga teaches us that the ordinary idea of duty is on the lower plane; nevertheless,all of us have to do our duty. Yet we may see that this peculiar sense of duty is very often a great cause of misery. Duty becomes a disease with us; it drags us ever forward. It catches hold of us and makes our whole life miserable. It is the bane of human life. This duty,this idea of duty is the midday summer sun which scorches the innermost soul of mankind. Look at those poor slaves to duty! Duty leaves them no time to say prayers, no time to bathe.

  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 83 ) - But Buddha is the only prophet who said, "I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good. And this will take you to freedom and to whatever truth there is." He was, in the conduct of his life,absolutely without personal motives; and what man worked more than he? Show me in history one character who has soared so high above all.
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 68 ) - So Karma-Yoga says, first destroy the tendency to project this tentacle of selfishness, and when you have the power of checking it, hold it in and do not allow the mind to get into the ways of selfishness. Then you may go out into the world and work as much as you can. Mix everywhere, go where you please; you will never be contaminated with evil. There is the lotus leaf in the water; the water cannot touch and adhere to it; so will you be in the world. This is called "Vairagya", dispassion or non - attachment. I believe I have told you that without non - attachment there cannot be any kind of Yoga. Non - attachment is the basis of all the Yogas.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 96 ) - We believe in a God, the Father of the universe, infinite and omnipotent. But if our soul at last becomes perfect, it also must become infinite. But there is no room for two infinite unconditional beings, and hence we believe in a Personal God, and we ourselves are He. These are the three stages which every religion has taken. First we see God in the far beyond,then we come nearer to Him and give Him omnipresence so that we live in Him; and at last we recognize that we are He. The idea of an objective God is not untrue -- in fact,every idea of God,and hence every religion, is true, as each is but a different stage in the journey, the aim of which is the perfect conception of the Vedas.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 64 ) - To acquire freedom we have to get beyond the limitations of this universe; it cannot be found here. Perfect equilibrium, or what the Christians call the peace that passeth all understanding, cannot be had in this universe, nor in heaven, nor in any place where our mind and thoughts can go, where the senses can feel, or which the imagination can conceive. No such place can give us that freedom, because all such places would be within our universe, and it is limited by space, time, and causation.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 12 ) - Inactivity should be avoided by all means. Activity always means resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical; and when you have succeeded in resisting, then will calmness come. It is very easy to say, "Hate nobody, resist not evil," but we know what that kind of thing generally means in practice.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 59 ) - Thus the man that has practised control over himself cannot be acted upon by anything outside; there is no more slavery for him. His mind has become free. Such a man alone is fit to live well in the world. We generally find men holding two opinions regarding the world. Some are pessimists and say, "How horrible this world is, how wicked!" Some others are optimists and say, "How beautiful this world is, how wonderful!" To those who have not controlled their own minds, the world is either full of evil or at best a mixture of good and evil. This very world will become to us an optimistic world when we become masters of our own minds. Nothing will then work upon us as good or evil;
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 10 ) - Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. Therefore, the only alternative remaining to us is to recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 96 ) - “I see you’re trying to be funny, Gideon,” I said. “I’ll always have time for God. It’s an honor to have Him visit. By the way, what do you mean—God visits the neighbors’ homes, too?” “He visits all homes, but not all see Him. He speaks to all,but not all hear Him. He has visited your home so many times that it’s almost as if He lives there.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 92 ) - “You should have this experience everyday,” He replied. “You could set the tone for your entire day by recalling experiences such as this when you awake in the morning. Some people call it prayer, others think of it as meditation or contemplation. I am always as close to you as your thoughts. Think of me and you are instantly in touch. That’s how close I am to you. And, remember, you never see me as I am, you always see me as you are.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 87 ) - Closely connected with these ideas is the doctrine -- which was universal before the Europeans mutilated it -- the doctrine of reincarnation. Some of you may have heard of and ignored it. This idea of reincarnation runs parallel with the other doctrine of the eternity of the human soul. Nothing which ends at one point can be without a beginning and nothing that begins at one point can be without an end. We cannot believe in such a monstrous impossibility as the beginning of the human soul. The doctrine of reincarnation asserts the freedom of the soul. Suppose there was an absolute beginning. Then the whole burden of this impurity in man falls upon God.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 118 ) - Thus we find that the minds of these ancient Aryan thinkers had begun a new theme. They found out that in the external world no search would give an answer to their question. They might seek in the external world for ages, but there would be no answer to their questions. So they fell back upon this other method;
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 104 ) - The man who is groping through sin, through misery, the man who is choosing the path through hells, will reach it, but it will take time. We cannot save him. Some hard knocks on his head will help him to turn to the Lord. The path of virtue, purity, unselfishness,spirituality, becomes known at last and what all are doing unconsciously, we are trying to do consciously. The idea is expressed by St.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 115 ) - One particular idea is taken as the support,in which everything rests and exists,and that support has become all this. So on with various ideas. They tried this method with Prana,the life principle.
  • Spirituality In Addiction Recovery: How Can It Help? - Asking 100 people to define spirituality will produce 100 different answers, yet most agree it is a needed component in addiction recovery. How can you define your spirituality? A great way to uncover your spirituality is to start asking some questions that will lead to self-discovery. Sometimes simply asking the questions will be more important than getting the 'right' answer.
  • Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 71 ) - What is duty after all? It is really the impulsion of the flesh,of our attachment; and when an attachment has become established, we call it duty. For instance, in countries where there is no marriage,there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty. It is, so to say, a sort of chronic disease. When it is acute,we call it disease; when it is chronic,we call it nature. It is a disease.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 22 ) - So he plunged into the midst of the fire and perished. The guests saw him falling and tried to save him, but he was too quick for them. The little bird's wife saw what her husband did, and she said, "Here are three persons and only one little bird for them to eat. It is not enough; it is my duty as a wife not to let my husband's effort go in vain; let them have my body also." Then she fell into the fire and was burned to death. Then the three baby - birds, when they saw what was done and that there was still not enough food for the three guests, said, "Our parents have done what they could and still it is not enough.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 85 ) - When I was a boy, this skepticism reached me,and it seemed for a time as if I must give up all hope of religion. But fortunately for me I studied the Christian religion,the Mohammedan,the Buddhistic,and others, and what was my surprise to find that the same foundation principles taught by my religion were also taught by all religions. It appealed to me this way. What is the truth? I asked. Is this world true? Yes. Why? Because I see it. Are the beautiful sounds we just heard (the vocal and instrumental music) true? Yes. Because we heard them.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Quotes ( Part 9 ) - The debt which the world owes to our Motherland is immense.
  • New Age Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 16 ) - Then the duty of the man is towards his brothers and sisters, and towards the children of his brothers and sisters, if they are poor, and towards his other relatives, his friends and his servants. Then his duties are towards the people of the same village, and the poor, and any one that comes to him for help. Having sufficient means, if the householder does not take care to give to his relatives and to the poor, know him to be only a brute; his is not a human being.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 71 ) - “Come now, John!” Marla said. “You meet with God and it’s not important? You ask questions of Jesus, the Buddha, Gandhi and others, and you wonder whether you were dreaming or really experiencing the events? You conversed with your dad who had died a few years earlier, and you think it’s your imagination? Listen, John, there is an extremely fine line between reality and dreams. In their own dimensions, they are each very real.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 65 ) - One is called the "Neti, Neti" (not this,not this),the other is called "iti" (this); the former is the negative, and the latter is the positive way. The negative way is the most difficult.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 101 ) - A few moments later, we were sitting with Marla on the porch. I was expecting God’s arrival any moment now. “Hello,John,” Marla greeted me.“This is a wonderful setting for a meeting with Him.” “It certainly is,” I responded, “but where is He, Marla? This is supposed to be the day, isn’t it?” “Yes, it’s today and the time is right.” Then, turning to Gideon, she said, “Why don’t you go ahead and explain, Gideon.” “Relax, John,” said Gideon. “I have a few things to tell you.” “I knew it! I knew it!
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 90 ) - God stopped speaking and stood up. I was watching very closely because it’s not every day that one has such an experience as this. As I stared at Her, Her body became blurry and I squinted my eyes in an effort to focus. Then, a split second later, She changed into the form of a male. I held my breath for a few seconds and reasoned to myself that I’d be waking up shortly and all this would have been just a bizarre dream, not real at all. “This is real,John,” God said. “But it’s also a dream, although not in the way you normally think. Also, since this culture thinks of me as male, I have assumed the form of a male. And sure, I know your thoughts.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 86 ) - In the first place,all religions admit that,apart from the body which perishes,there is a certain part or something which does not change like the body, a part that is immutable,eternal,that never dies;
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 111 ) - In all these cases where hymns were written about all these gods, the Being perceived was one and the same; it was the perceiver who made the difference. It was the hymnist,the sage, the poet,who sang in different languages and different words, the praise of one and the same Being. "That which exists is One; sages call It by various names." Tremendous results have followed from that one verse. Some of you,perhaps,are surprised to think that India is the only country where there never has been a religious persecution, where never was any man disturbed for his religious faith.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 99 ) - Even hells stand out with this miraculous fact that we are born rebels; and the first fact of life -- the onrushing of life itself -- against this we rebel and cry out, "No law for us." As long as we obey the laws we are like machines, and on goes the universe, and we cannot break it. Laws as laws become man's nature. The first inkling of life on its higher level is in seeing this struggle within us to break the bond of nature and to be free. "Freedom, O Freedom! Freedom, O Freedom!" is the song of the soul. Bondage, alas, to be bound in nature, seems its fate.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 105 ) - “Speak to her in your quiet moments, even as you speak to me. She will hear and answer. Don’t worry so much about the children. They receive much help from us.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 91 ) - The different stages of growth are absolutely necessary to the attainment of purity and perfection. The varying systems of religion are at bottom founded on the same ideas. Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is within you. Again he says, "Our father who art in Heaven." How do you reconcile the two sayings? In this way: He was talking to the uneducated masses when he said the latter, the masses who were uneducated in religion. It was necessary to speak to them in their own language. The masses want concrete ideas,something the senses can grasp. A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world,but a child in religion. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.That is the real kingdom of the mind.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 103 ) - “Dear, Beloved John. . . . You were expecting me to visit you in the same physical form as when you saw me last. This time, I chose not to do it that way, but to show you that I am with you always and in many different forms and ways. At first, you were disappointed when I didn’t arrive with Gideon and Marla. Actually, I was here before they arrived. I was always here, even before the Earth, the universe or anything. “Someone once told you that I am not like human beings, that I do not have arms, legs, a face and other human characteristics.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 98 ) - On the whole,this shows that the world is expecting a miracle. This expectation never leaves us, and however we may try, we are all running after the miraculous and extraordinary.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 56 ) - “Alex will be much better in the morning,” I said, trying to comfort her. Again,I knew his name without really understanding how. “Oh, thank you, good sir. God bless you.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 68 ) - While I was gone, time seemed to have stood still. I had heard about such things before and had even experienced some of them once or twice, but whenever it’s happening again, it’s almost always new and exciting. Before I could say anything to Gideon, Theo asked, “Would you like some dessert, John?” “No, thank you,” I replied. “I have quite enough food for thought.” “Yes, I understand,” he said. “Sometimes people spend so much time on food for the body that they neglect feeding the mind and spirit.” “Well,” I replied, not knowing what else to say, “it was certainly an interesting evening. I think I would just like to go home now.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 94 ) - My religion is to learn.I read my Bible better in the light of your Bible and the dark prophecies of my religion become brighter when compared with those of your prophets. Truth has always been universal.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 80 ) - Absolute equality, that which means a perfect balance of all the struggling forces in all the planes, can never be in this world. Before you attain that state, the world will have become quite unfit for any kind of life, and no one will be there. We find, therefore, that all these ideas of the millennium and of absolute equality are not only impossible but also that, if we try to carry them out, they will lead us surely enough to the day of destruction. What makes the difference between man and man? It is largely the difference in the brain.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 76 ) - But, if you come to details, the matter will not be seen to be quite so simple. For instance, environment often makes the details different as I have already mentioned. The same action under one set of circumstances may be unselfish, and under another set quite selfish.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 113 ) - That was the solution they arrived at. But,as I have said,this ancient monotheistic idea did not satisfy the Hindu mind. It did not go far enough,it did not explain the visible world: a ruler of the world does not explain the world -- certainly not. A ruler of the universe does not explain the universe, and much less an external ruler, one outside of it. He may be a moral guide, the greatest power in the universe,but that is no explanation of the universe; and the first question that we find now arising,assuming proportions,is the question about the universe: "Whence did it come?" "How did it come?" "How does it exist?
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 123 ) - After an incalculable time this evolution ceases and involution begins, everything being resolved back through finer and finer forms into the original Akasha and Prana, when a new cycle follows. Now there is something beyond Akasha and Prana. Both can be resolved into a third thing called Mahat -- the Cosmic Mind. This Cosmic Mind does not create Akasha and Prana, but changes itself into them. We will now take up the beliefs about mind, soul,and God.
  • Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 54 ) - However much their systems of philosophy and religion may differ, all mankind stand in reverence and awe before the man who is ready to sacrifice himself for others. Here,it is not at all any question of creed,or doctrine - even men who are very much opposed to all religious ideas, when they see one of these acts of complete self - sacrifice,feel that they must revere it. Have you not seen even a most bigoted Christian, when he reads Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia, stand in reverence of Buddha, who preached no God, preached nothing but self-sacrifice? The only thing is that the bigot does not know that his own end and aim in life is exactly the same as that of those from whom he differs.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Quotes ( Part 5 ) - Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is manifest this Divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work,or worship,or psychic control, or philosophy – by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines,or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temple, or forms, are but secondary details. If there is a God, we must see Him; If there is a soul, we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further.
  • Age New Spirituality – Inspirational Quotes ( Part 3 ) - The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.
  • New Age Spirituality – Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 20 ) - Gideon was very serious as he spoke. You would think that our conversation would have been on a lighter note since I hadn’t seen him in such a long time. He still hadn’t explained where he had been.

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