All i want is Peace

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed. The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him... Read more »

Living in conflict, we cannot always find reassuring spiritual sustenance that could guide and inspire. Swami Ranganathananda would say that we look to philosophy to give us guidance in our daily lives. It does not always mean the academic or esoteric but something by which we can put our little actions of life in the context... Read more »

We let scatter our mental energy in random thoughts; so we find it difficult to tread the spiritual path of meditation. It has been the experience of many seekers that as soon as they sit in meditation, all sorts of turbulent thoughts occupy their mind as a result of which they are forced to abandon meditation. This happens... Read more »

Ego causes most of the problems we face in dealing with others. Once we get rid of it, our true nature emerges, says John Bendix To analyse the breakdown of an intimate relationship is a daunting task. Is it worth the effort? No one can answer this except the person caught up in such a circumstance. Even then, no one can be... Read more »

There is an awakeness that comes from a clear mind, unobscured by wandering thoughts and preoccupations, and there is an awakeness that comes from a clear heart, willing to engage with life as gift and as an ever-un folding revelation of the purpose of Creation. Such an awakened heart cannot respond indifferently to life be... Read more »

Most of the world likes to play it safe. They go to their safe jobs, come home to their safe relationships, they drive safe cars, they invest money in safe corporations, they think safe thoughts, and they want nothing more than to feel safe and secure. Survival of the fittest dictates that these people live another day and therefore... Read more »

A spiritual approach to any pursuit, even as mundane as weight loss, may bring us to a deeper truth, says Trish Whynot Since each of us is a physical and spiritual being at the same time, everything in our life has a physical and a spiritual aspect to it. Even those things that seem simply physical in nature, such as our bodies,... Read more »

We have grown up in a cynical world. We tend to dismiss the unseen and unexplained. We give little, if any, credence to the idea that the mind plays a critical role in our healing. Nor do we value the notion that we have mental abilities that can actually help us create a better life for ourselves. As a race we have failed... Read more »

There is a lot of darkness , disharmony and suffering in our world today, a lot of injustice, and violence. And what we must realize is that we are the reason behind all this. Indeed , the state of much of our outer world is created by the fact that many of us live very split and discombobulated inner lives; many of us are... Read more »