When good happens in life is it to be considered as "blessing of god" or "just that the person is lucky"

  The interpretation of good fortune as a "blessing of God" or "luck" is deeply personal and varies significantly based ...

Is It the Soul, the Mind, or the Heart That Meets the Divine?

When a person visits a spiritual or holy place, the connection they feel is a complex interplay of psychological, emotional, and potentially...

The Soulful Embrace? Why Sex Isn't Always Seen as a Spiritual Act

  The human experience is a tapestry woven with threads of the physical and the spiritual . Sex, a deeply intimate act involving the body, o...

How to Control Your Emotions

You can do a hundred things right, but it takes only one thoughtless, reactive action to destroy it all.  As we grow spiritually, we must at...

The Wallet and the One Who Never Leaves

  He was just another old man on a pilgrimage train—quiet, soft-spoken, with eyes that held a world of stories. Nobody really noticed him at...

Learn, Relax and Enjoy - 127

Hypocrite He who, restraining the organs of action, sits thinking of the sense objects in mind, he of deluded understanding is calle...

Are You A Worry-Wart?

A recent survey by the Psychology Department of the University of Texas discovered that 15 percent of the US population would describe ...

Two Boxes and a Gentle Answer

  One evening, during a quiet moment between the noise of life and the weight of the day, I found myself in a dream—or maybe it was somethin...

Can the Mind Heal the Body?

Can the Mind Heal the Body? -  That's the conclusion of a recent scholarly article in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Such res...

Don't Quit—Keep Playing: A Melody of Grace and Guidance

  It was one of those grand evenings that promised inspiration. A mother, eager to cultivate her young son’s love for music, bought tickets ...

Shun Violence to Be Happy

As we all are aware, we are witnessing increasingly shocking acts of violence these days from linguistic groups, terrorist attacks and i...