If you want a good litmus test of your spiritual growth, simply examine the nature and quality of your relationships with others. Are you more loving, more compassionate, more patient, more understanding, more caring, more giving, more forgiving than you were a year ago? If you cannot answer these kinds of questions in the affirmative and especially if others cannot answer them in the affirmative about you, then you need to examine carefully the nature of your spiritual life and growth.
