Wisdom Articles

Spiritual enlightenment marks the culminating point of your practices: when one attains spiritual enlightenment, one feels the unity of soul with everything and all the mental and physical engagements are left aside.

Whether academic or practical, the lessons of spirit keep coming at us until we learn them, at exactly the right time and place in our lives.

Notice some parallels between the freedom we enjoy in our country and your own personal, inner freedom. Louise Hay, a gifted writer and spiritual teacher also tells us that we are free to choose whatever thoughts we wish, and that we are the only thinkers in our own mind. 

Many things give us pause and we ask ourselves who and what we are. Take a peek a few insightful ways to ponder the questions and arrive at your own decision.

The only reality is this moment, and a lot more than we think is happening in it if we stop thinking long enough to notice.

Accepting whatever is happening—whatever it is—brings us into alignment with our true Self and into a state of real happiness, peace, and contentment. The ego’s way is to reject life, but the way to happiness and alignment with the deepest Self is acceptance.

Thoughts deserve questioning. They aren’t what they seem to be. Many are false and lead you down a path of suffering. Find out how thoughts keep you from happiness and from an experience of your deepest Self.

Now is where happiness and peace reside, but how do you get there? Noticing is one very simple way. Find out how to use noticing as a doorway into the now.

When you stop allowing your mind and feelings to determine your actions and responses to life, something else steps in and unfolds your life according to its intentions. That is divine essence, which speaks through the Heart.

We are programmed to think of ourselves as our thoughts and bodies and overlook the true experience of ourselves as consciousness.