https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8.jpgSpiritually SpeakingReligions meet where they take their source in God’, wrote Pope John Paul II. The truth of his statement was seen at a retreat earlier this month in the UK for religious and spiritual leaders. Thirty participants, including representatives of the ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingMost of us have an inner critic. It is the voice inside that tells us we are inadequate. It compares us with others, and sometimes even abuses us, saying we are idiots. It makes us feel useless. It often holds us back, rather than encouraging us. ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWorking for many years as a writer on science and medicine, I have come to understand that life exists in a matrix of positive energy. This supports us, quite magically, when we align ourselves with it through our own good wishes and pure feelings...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe all know anger causes a lot of harm. It can prevent us from understanding the reality of a situation, ruin the health of a persistently angry person, and cause hurt to others. And yet it does come up in many of us from time to time. Why is this...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAdvances in Artificial Intelligence have brought the equivalent of a gold rush in the information technology industry, leading to hopes of great improvements in our lives, but also fears of imminent disaster. Many are concerned that the machines c...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingHave people given up believing in angels? They are remembered as helping humanity at times of great need, and the world could not be in greater need right now. So where are they? It is easy to be sceptical. Coming from a science background, there ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIndia’s unique privilege is that deep within that ancient culture lies a precious memory of Shiva, the dimensionless Source from which a pure, renewing light of truth emerges.Other cultures are sustained through powerful religious teachings, but B...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPassing judgement on others sometimes seems like a national or global pastime. It takes very little for a conversation to turn to criticism of someone or another. Even given that people appear to be behaving in ever more outlandish ways, this habi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAs most people in the world know, the Queen of England died a short while ago. Part of her exemplary life, among many other qualities, was that she approached events and people with calm and compassion. It is difficult to imagine that death held a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt is quite a revelation when we begin to notice that other people tend to put the same value on us, as we put on ourselves. When we have self-respect, that conveys itself to others through our body language, words and actions, and others will res...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAre human beings essentially good in character? Is love a fundamental principle in creation? Or is there truth in the concept of ‘original sin’, which has played a big part in much religious thought? On first glance, it might appear that these two...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAre human beings essentially good in character? Is love a fundamental principle in creation? Or is there truth in the concept of ‘original sin’, which has played a big part in much religious thought? On first glance, it might appear that these two...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere was a time when I thought true love meant to give one’s all to another person—to sacrifice oneself in a relationship, living for the other rather than for oneself. It didn’t work! In today’s world, most of us have limitations that make us hu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere was a time when I thought true love meant to give one’s all to another person—to sacrifice oneself in a relationship, living for the other rather than for oneself. It didn’t work! In today’s world, most of us have limitations that make us hu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIn today’s world, most of us are led to think of ourselves as material, physical beings, with no soul. Science has claimed to explain how everything—even the utter miracle of a single living cell of our bodies, which is like a city in its complexi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt is impossible to desire something that one has never experienced. If you were to ask any number of people what they really desire, the majority would probably answer, ‘to love and be loved’. A life bereft of love, is no life at all. That means ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSome cultures encourage open expression of feelings, whether of love or joy, hatred or sad-ness. Others put a high value on being respectful and restrained. Whichever way we have been brought up, most of us wish to be kind towards others and find ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe sometimes find ourselves agonising over decisions, even seemingly unimportant ones. Why is this? One reason is a lack of confidence, springing from long-held habits of being pulled and pushed by external circumstances, and conflicting offers of...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingForty years ago, I was very ambitious and driving myself hard as a reporter in the competitive environment of the UK’s daily newspapers. I was working as a medical and science correspondent, and had gradually become aware of how unsustainable my s...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe essence of problems that many of us face is that we have two selves, and their interests do not always coincide. One is the sense of self acquired over time. As soon as we are born, we are surrounded by instructions and information and experie...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA child born and growing up in difficult and even terrible circumstances can survive and thrive, providing they have a glimpse of something better. A teacher, parent or other relatives who gives genuine care and encouragement can serve as a small ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingO ne of the biggest calls to humanity at the current time is the call for compassion. But what does it really mean, to be compassionate? It clearly is a strength that helps us see the needs of others, but it would not be real compassion to let our...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingClarity of thought and peace of mind are time-honoured treasures. Most of us think far, far too much: we go around in circles, backwards and forwards, and all too often remain stuck in the same old grooves of thought. Thinking less means reducing ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere is a new wave in the world of science, a wave that is pushing forward the frontiers of conventional medical and scientific views of the world. The most exciting aspect of it is that it connects with ancient spiritual understanding about the ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/spiritual-leaders-unite-uk-retreat-great-login/July 27, 2024, 12:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Meditate8-300x200.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe growth of interest in all types of meditation and other reflective practices is a sign of our need to restore balance between our inner and outer worlds. We are happiest when expressing positive attributes such as kindness and wisdom, and seei...