Browsing Tag: Life

The 11 Karmic Spaces

The karmic spaces can never confine the soul—nothing can—but they can confine the small self that yearns to become one with the universal soul. As you grow in awareness, you be able to give up things you don’t need, one by one, bit by bit—a pattern of anger, an attachment to someone who hurts you, a habit of negativity. What’s left is the soul, and the soul’s joy.
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Incidental Happiness

Problems and bad news abound everywhere; but wisdom lies in taking note of small incidents of joy that can bring happiness and touch our lives every now and then.
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Showdown with the Temple: How Enlightenment and Purpose Never Arrive as Expected

I knew this day would come. My showdown with the River Temple has been on my mind since I abandoned it in September, because no matter how hard we try to avoid it, our destiny/fate/karma/purpose will always haunt us.
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Are You Spiritual?

We often hear people say things like “Well, I’m not into religion, but I’m a very spiritual person” or, “he’s really very spiritual.” But what does it actually mean to “be spiritual?”
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Wake Up My Dear Khalsa

There are many leaders in our Sikh Panth. Some are true and some are not. Just as the phrase we hear our parents say, “Eh duniya mutlab di ah, koi nahi kise da.” This world is selfish, no one belongs to anyone. Accept the truth that even the biggest of leaders and kings have left this world empty-handed. We don’t have time to waste on empty debates and fights.
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A Love-centered LIFE

Just as every individual is unique, his/her point of view about love is also unique. This article aims at developing an LQ (Love Quotient) for the revered reader and help make them Love-conscious.
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Its Bad to Be Good [OP-ED]

So it is evident that judgment, or seeing life in the polarizing lens of good/right-bad/wrong is ultimately no different whether it is judgment of another or yourself, but you will find that as you release yourself from judgment, the tyranny of good/right and bad/wrong, so, by projection, you will also let go of judging outwardly, choosing instead, as far as you will allow yourself, to actually see yourself, things, people and situations for what they are.
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Guru as life coach

I think it's great to learn more about the Gurus. I feel more and more at home with the different "Nanaks" as I connect to their words through my daily hukam.
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Touching life story ~ Life Packaging

It is important to honor and value the differences in our packaging, but it is just as important to honor the Gift of Life inside each one of us, and the fact that, no matter how different the packaging, the Gift inside is the same.
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so

What I’ve studied in Sukhmani this year gives me a much clearer context for the last moment of life, that last breath. And it basically comes down to this: Is God good? Or is God everything?
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