Stress, strain, and anxiety, which lead to the condition of burnout, result in social and emotional distress and pain and unhappiness in the individual. Psychosomatic diseases are also linked to stress. As modem researchers have shown, stress is a product of major life crises (e.g. death or divorce) as well as the minor but constant… Detail
To be peaceful, calm and undisturbed under all circumstances is considered as one of the qualities of a saint or sage. But we need not be great saints or sages to be calm and peaceful. Anyone with a certain minimum amount of self-control, who is not entirely a slave of his negative feelings and passions,… Detail
Self-inquiry is an awareness of the awareness itself. It leads us beyond duality because the object of meditation (the “I”) is ultimately revealed as the Subject itself (the transpersonal Consciousness). Nevertheless, in order to let the question “Who am I?” bring us closer to our real nature, or in other words, to truly ask “Who… Detail
Whatever we are now is the result of whatever we have been or thought in the past, and whatever we shall be in the future will be the result of what we do or think now. But this does not preclude our receiving help from outside, the possibilities of the soul are always quickened by… Detail
When someone speaks of Freedom, what he generally has at the back of his mind is freedom from particular conditions or certain relationships which he finds irksome, which prevent him from enjoying what he desires. But there are innumerable things in life which are unwelcome and come up at sometime or other. Even if there… Detail
People often think that success should generate confidence. Yet some of the most successful people remain insecure about their achievements and always afraid of losing ground. Some successful people never able to enjoy their success. Some successful people are haunted by fear of failure. Some people whom others would call successful still call themselves unsuccessful…. Detail
We all experience challenges in our lives, and probably most of us feel we have learned something from the challenges we have encountered. Some people learn things that make them wiser over their life course while others become (or remain) rigid, bitter, depressed, superficially content, or overly self‐involved? Little theoretical and even less empirical work… Detail
To our hallucinated mind it looks like all our day- to- day happiness and problems, every hour’s, every minute’s, even every second’s happiness and problems come from the outside. But in reality, they come from our mind, from our concepts. They are the results of actions, karma, done in the past. Of the two components… Detail
