https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhat an extraordinary world we live in. A world of eight billion human beings, living in 195 countries, speaking over 6,500 languages, and 85 per cent of us identify with a religion. What amazing diversity! So, how do we all manage all this comple...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAt the heart of all spirituality is the relationship with the self. The whole spiritual journey, if we embark on it, is about healing this relationship with the self, and stepping back into my true self-worth. This I then carry into each part of m...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe live in an extraordinary world of eight billion people living in 195 countries, speaking over 6,500 languages, and participating in more than 4,500 religions. Each one of us contributes to all the stories, the collective memories, that are inte...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingForgiveness is one of the greatest acts of human character. Sometimes, forgiveness can change the most negative of situations into something positive. Forgiveness can change a stalemate of ego and anger into one of openness and reconciliation; it ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/stepping-stones-on-the-spiritual-journey/August 27, 2022, 9:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/baf11a1e_11350_P_6_mr.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSpiritual maturity is the final stepping stone, though not the end of the journey. This is when we have complete honesty with the self. The power to face the things we can truly see that need to change, and the ability to wonder at the truth and b...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOne of the most profound ways of describing a spiritual journey is to say that it is ultimately the dismantling of the ego. This dismantling finally reveals the natural and original qualities of the soul, one of which is the huge, and perhaps unre...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPilgrims come in many guises, travel many miles and visit many shrines. For each pilgrim there is a quest and a reason for the quest. Ultimately it is a quest for spiritual awakening or to bring peace to the heart. At the hub is a desire for chang...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingFor someone on a spiritual journey, purity becomes an essential requirement. There is physical purity, where things are untainted and unspoiled, there is also moral purity, but spiritual purity is when I embed my thinking and feeling in truth. The...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOur world is no longer the same as it was. It has been turned upside down. The events took almost everyone by surprise and everyone’s thinking went into overdrive. The media bombarded us every day with information and a variety of experts gave the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIn the world there are so many movements for the cause of freedom. Freedom is a deep need of each one of us. True freedom though is spiritual and means identifying and taking support from that which is permanent, that which always exists, that whi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAt this particular time, many people are asking themselves and others ‘what’s happening, what’s going on?’. Some time ago, in Australia, a radio host asked his listeners the same question and then asked them; given the calamities, diseases and con...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe world is not only facing a rise in temperature because of global warming but the temperature in the mind of humanity is also rising; feelings of fear and anxiety about the physical virus and what the future is going to look like. This mental f...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingRegrets are part of the human condition. Regret means ‘I think I would be happier or better if things were different in the past’. Things are recorded in our memory tracks. So many stories swirl around in the mind; things that are unresolved, unfi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOne of the main aims on the spiritual path is to gradually re-form my character. Through meditation and a simple lifestyle, we come to know what our weaknesses are, and we can begin to change them into strengths. There comes a time, however, when ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-importance-of-learning-to-adapt/May 18, 2024, 3:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dying-300x157.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA thought for today  Collect moments of peace. When I take a deep breath, hold it for a quiet moment and offer a sweet smile to myself, I bring a drop of peace to my world. Each precious moment of peace adds a drop to the pond. Drop by drop, ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-intelligence-the-ultimate-wisdom/August 8, 2020, 3:07 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/page-......pngSpiritually SpeakingThe relationship with the self is the first relationship of life, but if it is dysfunctional it pollutes everything else. The one with spiritual intelligence realises a need to return to one’s roots to understand ‘Who am I’.