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if you really want to know spirituality, don’t look for anything. People think spirituality is about looking for God or truth or the ultimate.
The amazing thing is that for most people on this planet, not a single day has happened exactly the way they want it! Of course, there is no one who has not experienced joy, peace, even bliss, but it is always fleeting. They are unable to sustain it. They manage to get there, but it keeps collapsing.
The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.
We need to understand that unless we do the right things, the right things will not happen to us: this is true not just of the outside world, but also the inside.
To be human means you can mold situations you are living in the way you want them. But today most people in the world are molded by the situations in which they exist. This
If you have mastery over your physical body, fifteen to twenty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your mind, fifty to sixty percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands. If you have mastery over your life energies, a hundred percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands.
Once you take charge of your inner life, there is no such thing as stress.
But if you habitually think, “I am the way I am because of someone else,” you are using life situations merely as an opportunity for self-destruction or stagnation.
Logic is not without its uses, but these help only to handle the material aspects of life. If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.
“My ability to respond is limitless, but my ability to act is limited. I am one hundred percent responsible for everything I am and everything I am not, for my capacities and my incapacities, for my joys and my miseries. I am the one who determines the nature of my experience in this life and beyond. I am the maker of my life.”
The whole effort of the spiritual process is to break the boundaries you have drawn for yourself and experience the immensity that you are. The aim is to unshackle yourself from the limited identity you have forged, as a result of your own ignorance, and live the way the Creator made you—utterly blissful and infinitely responsible.
When you have your next meal, do not talk to anyone around you for the first fifteen minutes. Just be in active conscious response to the food that you eat, the air that you breathe, the water that you drink.
Things to do ...Do not talk to talk to anyone in meal time. just be in active consious response to the food.
Later, without even uttering the sentence aloud, take the simple idea—“My responsibility is limitless; if I am willing, I can respond to everything”—into the entire day. Be conscious of it until the last moment before you fall asleep and remind yourself of it the first thing when you wake up.
Things to do ...Say to yourself every day after wake and before sleep : I can respond to everything ( i can't still feel the real meaning to it ? 24th dec 2016)
The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence.
The whole point of yoga is to bring you to an experience wherein, if you sit here, there is no such thing as “you” and “me.” It is all me—or all you! Any process that helps you to reach this union is yoga.
Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
Try this. Sit for a few minutes in front of a plant or tree. Remind yourself that you are inhaling what the tree is exhaling, and exhaling what the tree is inhaling. Even if you are not yet experientially aware of it, establish a psychological connection with the plant. You could repeat this several times a day. After a few days, you will start connecting with everything around you differently. You won’t limit yourself to a tree.
Things to do...Sit in front of tree. Inhale and exhale in front of it. Feel i am inhaling what the tree is exhaling for few minutes. It can be done many times a day.
Yoga is fundamentally aimed at enhancing your experience beyond the five senses.
