https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhere there is honesty there will be love, and where there is love, there is also respect. Honesty gives us the strength to give respect to others and to maintain our own self-respect. This equips us to tolerate defamation, disregard, and insults....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/memory-and-the-mind/July 9, 2022, 4:51 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/706b61a4_6516_P_3_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen you are aware of being a body—of having body consciousness—you are thinking about your own body, bodily relationships, and possessions, the world outside, and other people’s nature and personalities. This is what fills your consciousness. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/patience-brings-wisdom-into-our-lives/June 11, 2022, 6:33 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/3c070074_5044_P_6_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe need to focus and concentrate if we are to have peace of mind and a feeling of true success in life. This means not expanding and not diversifying our energies to such an extent that it is difficult to manage. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingNobody is an enemy to anyone else; our biggest enemy is the ego. The ego and truth are opposites—the truth is visible through the humility we have, and the ego does not allow us to reveal the truth. Even if you only have a little bit of ego, it wi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen we sit in silence and begin to know ourselves, we see that we carry with us many, many things from the past. The mind has been a slave to so much, and the heart has been wounded. We have done wrong and so we have a feeling of guilt; there are...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt is part of human honour to be content. In India, the Goddess of Contentment is worshipped and the one who stays content is considered as a god. His hands may be empty, but the heart is content. Some people have everything, and yet, without cont...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe question that many ask is, ‘What are the virtues that bring happiness?’ and ‘What kind of happiness brings peace?’ Now, if you were to tour around India, Australia or Europe—indeed any part of the world—would there be happiness? Or if you were...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLove has a connection with the heart – when we speak about love, we always put our hand on the heart. We do not put our hand on our head, do we? When the hand goes quite naturally to the heart, it reminds us to make sure, before taking any action,...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/introversion-brings-peace-and-power/January 1, 2022, 6:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/spirit-pg.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen the mind is stable, it brings about a very good feeling and creates great happiness within, happiness that is merged with peace and power. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingFirst, we begin with ‘Om Shanti’—Om means ‘I am’, and Shanti means ‘peace’. When there is peace there is love, and when there is love there is peace. Within our relationships in the world today, there are three things that don’t allow us to unders...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/be-free-from-worry-and-illness/December 4, 2021, 3:46 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/649438e1_5948_P_1_mr-1-1.jpgSpiritually Speakinginsidehttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen you are happy, you do not worry about anything. We are not talking about superficial, external happiness. We are talking about deep, inner happiness. When we have this happiness inside, we feel that everything is easy—nothing is difficult. If...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingDevotional feelings are pure ones consisting of sweetness and innocence. They are feelings of faith in God, but they can be shaken. Faith, without some wisdom to back it up, may fail you in a moment of need. Both are needed for long-term spiritual...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLove is connected to virtues. Virtues create love within the self and within others. When virtues reduce, the quality of love is also reduced. When all virtues are present, there is complete and pure love. Out of all the virtues, the main one is h...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere is something that you can do to help create peace in the world and that is to make yourself peaceful. The first step in this is doing some real soul-searching to find out what has made you peaceless in the first place. Turning your mind with...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere is a benefit for you in every situation. If that is, you know how to look for it. The idea behind steady spiritual progress is to see every circumstance and situation (particularly those that challenge you) as a tailor-made lesson in your pe...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe mind has an influence on the body, and vice versa. The two work together; neither side can be ignored. Taking medicine is not wrong in principle; what is wrong is to attend only to the body and ignore the mind. If there is a need for medicine,...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLet me be humble and let me harmonise and work well with all others but let me not become like them. Others may be influenced by their own arrogance, or by their own negativities, or by ordinariness in the mind, but this does not mean that I have ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe, who walk the spiritual path, are those who have enrolled themselves in the school of spirituality. Our aim should be to pass all subjects, with honour. This means that spiritual understanding and power from God have been so well assimilated th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe trick to problem-solving is to get to the root of the problem before it even shows up. This requires virtues such as objectivity, clarity and honesty, because the solution to all problems is truth. Truth means your spirituality; that is, your ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingHow can we serve those around us? By making our lives inspirational and interacting with tact and wisdom. Even if there is not the chance for actual conversation, we can learn to take in each other’s presence in a positive way. This creates an atm...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA major obstacle to spiritual progress is one’s own negative nature. The root cause of this kind of nature is limited consciousness. This root has to be eliminated completely because obstacles that arise from a negative nature will prevent you fro...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA beautiful state of being is soul-consciousness, where your whole sense of self is shifted from a physical identity to a spiritual one. In soul-consciousness, you no longer feel yourself to be male or female, black or white. No worldly achievemen...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSpiritual strength is necessary if you want to grow spiritually and help others grow, too. It is an inner kind of strength which builds character and allows you to discipline your mind. A disciplined mind means a peaceful and happy one. A strong m...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingGod does so much, yet He is beyond the feeling of doing. He does not think, yet still you can say that He thinks. That is His wonderful personality. We cannot become God, because His part is unique. But as His children, we can become like Him. And...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingNever have the thought that you do not want a part in the drama of life. That is not possible. It is good to understand these things in detail. Understanding allows you to remove the sorrow. It makes you a self-sovereign and makes others this, too...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingNo matter how good a car or its driver, if the car is not regularly checked, there will be problems. In the same way, if one moment I am happy but the next moment I am not, something is wrong with the vehicle of my mind and I will need to check it...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe intellect is the vessel which holds the knowledge of God. It is different from the mind. A clean intellect is like the mind’s filter, sorting out thoughts of value from those of waste, enabling me to put into action only that which is of value...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThrough our thoughts, we are either gaining power or losing it. With pure thoughts power is generated, and with impure thoughts, power is destroyed. Pure thoughts are those that express our spiritual personality. Impure thoughts are all the others...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe most important virtue needed for self-transformation is patience. Without patience you will lose hope in the transformation process. As you travel the path you sometimes run into rough spots where the foot slips and you find yourself suddenly ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe leave our original home (the soul world), come into the drama of life and eventually we forget the plot. God never comes into the drama, and therefore does not ever forget the plot. Thus, it is He alone who can give us an understanding of the w...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingHuman beings believe that in order to understand something, you have to think about it. However, to understand God, you do not have to think. When it comes to physical matters, then there is a need for thinking—you need to analyse in order to figu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIf I do not know the enemy, I will be poorly equipped to protect myself. Anger, greed, ego, lust, attachment are the enemies in myself and in others. If I cannot protect myself, who will? Not to know the value of thoughts, or to move through life ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe idea of women playing any role outside the home was strongly opposed in the community where I grew up. That was a long time ago and things have changed. But I did not wait for the change. I had the strong desire to work for the upliftment of h...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSome things facilitate learning, and other things destroy it. Arrogance destroys it — “I know this already” — have this thought and learning will stop. Also, being tied up in a million things will not help you get to the depth of a thing. You cann...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSuccess means reaching such a constant level of positive thoughts that pure actions happen naturally. Pure actions are like good seeds which, when planted, produce healthy, sweet fruit. “As you sow, so shall you reap”. Concern for the quality of m...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingFirst of all, understand discontentment. Discontent is caused by a constant multiplication of desires. One desire leads to another until there is never a moment when you feel fulfilled. Desires are like traps. Because of endless desires, relations...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIf I am a truly knowledgeable soul, I will be skilful in the things of the spirit. I will be centred successfully in my spiritual identity. I will be free from the influence of my past. There will be only peace and happiness within. True knowledge...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAnybody who wants to be instrumental in serving the world needs to know how to work with integrity. Integrity elevates character and brings internal power. It reveals a pure attitude. Those with integrity maintain great humility, even while holdin...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSome people do not want to have anything more to do with love. Because there has been deception from all sides, they have kicked love away. They think it is too complicated, too tiring. They say, ‘I’m not going to love anyone any more and I don’t ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingEthics is a code of conduct which promotes virtue and character. There need to be ethics in my personal, social and professional life. To be ethical means to have a code of conduct for the self. A personal code of conduct can be maintained when th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingDeceptive love is love where there is no honesty in the heart. It creates dependency and looks more like a deal than a relationship. This kind of love has become like a drug. We do not want love that is going to make us dependent. Love should be s...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingGod’s love actually changes me internally. Through God’s love, everything old finishes. God’s love makes me like a mirror – a mirror in which I can see myself clearly and through which others can see themselves – in no time at all. The power of th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere is a connection between a mind which is peaceful and behaviour which is good. It is interesting to note how the sensory apparatus — sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell — are involved in this. For example, suppose I promise myself not to g...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPeople like to be shown respect; many believe it to be a right. However, as in the case of most rights, there is responsibility attached to it. This responsibility needs to be understood in order for us to become worthy of respect. True respect do...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPeople have experienced a lot of deception in their lives. There has been a lot of exchange of everything that is false, so feelings have been destroyed. This is why some people have stopped feeling altogether, and have rejected the world. However...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingEvery passing moment is like a passing act in a play. Each of us are the actors playing our parts very well. An actor is never focused on another’s part, continually criticising it. He just gets on with his own part, playing it as best he can. Thi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingI used to say, ‘I am a Hindu, you are a Christian’. I can never say that anymore. My attitude has changed. Now I would say ‘whether you are standing before a statue of Christ or worshipping the image of Krishna, God is still the one Father and we ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingYour pure vibrations are a subtle form of service. Love, peace, joy, wisdom—these are pure vibrations. They are carried out into the world through your thoughts and actions wherever these are filled with the Divine. So, make your every moment pure...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/honesty-is-key-to-gaining-respect/July 30, 2022, 4:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingModern love has come out of the heart and gone into the head. This is why we have headaches, because the head instead of the heart has started to look for love. The poor heart has lost love and is unhappy. Whatever the age, young or old – even sma...