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Too busy or misguided priorities?
At an event in Portland, Oregon, I was asked, "What if we don't have time to spend in reflection in the morning?" At the end of the day, it comes down to priorities. What’s important in your life? Everybody has time. I’m sure they have time to update their status or to talk with their friends. It’s amazing. People say to me, “I’m so busy. I have no time.” Yet, when your friend calls you up and s...
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Jul 18, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
How To Work With Guilt
One of the things to cultivate on the spiritual path is self-acceptance. Right this moment, you are the sum total of many, many incarnations. It took hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years, to bring you to this very moment so you have to be forgiving of yourself for you
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Jul 10, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
Should we try to remember our past lives?
Through a clear and disciplined spiritual practice of self development and growth, you tend to see more things within yourself, not only from this life but also from previous lives. When you come to a place on your spiritual path where you don’t understand something about your na
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Jul 3, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
Is there heaven or hell?
Different religions believe in different things obviously. Hinduism does not believe in heaven or hell but rather in heavenly states of mind and hellish states of mind. One of the core beliefs of Hinduism is that God is all pervasive. God is in you, in me, in the trees, in the st
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Jun 26, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
How To View Negative Traits In Yourself
In looking to change our own negative traits, we should seek to understand them first: How did it come about? What caused it? How many lives did it take to create? Remember the trait was a product of decades or centuries of repeating a behavioral pattern and to expect to change i
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Jun 19, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
How do you teach children to concentrate?
The best way to teach children how to concentrate is for you to learn concentration and practice it yourself. Concentration is the ability for you to keep your awareness on one thing for an extended period of time. Parents struggle to teach concentration because they are not conc
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Jun 14, 2017 1 MINUTE READ
How do you view atheists?
How should someone on a spiritual path view an atheist? This talk shares a joyful outlook on atheism. “An atheist and an ex-monk walk into a bar…” and they have a great time. Atheists are people too. We don’t have to convert them and we don’t have to convince them of a God. Inste