Category: Spiritual Writings

“Do you believe some people come into your life for a specific purpose? As if they want you to learn valuable life lessons and help you move forward in your spiritual journey? We are all part of a great cosmic master plan and our soul relationships are guided by spiritual laws, rules, and agreements. The more you learn to identify your soul contract, the farther you will go on your spiritual journey.”
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“Soul contracts are created in a higher state of consciousness, where our soul works in collaboration with spiritual guides and other beings of light to plan our lives. This process includes a detailed review of our past lives and an evaluation of the lessons we still need to learn for our spiritual evolution.

During this planning, our soul is never alone. We coordinate our experiences with other souls that also play important roles in our lives, and we, in turn, play roles in their lives. This collaboration ensures that each lesson and challenge aligns with our spiritual growth and that of the other souls involved.

The choice of experiences is not based on unnecessary suffering but on the potential for growth that each situation offers. We consciously select both

challenges and joys to achieve a deeper understanding and spiritual balance. This meticulous planning prepares us for a life filled with meaningful learning and opportunities to evolve.”

https://www.gaia.com, Soul Contracts: Do We Plan Our Lives Before Birth?, Gabriel Soca

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Swami Vivekananda are all considered  prominent yogis who significantly influenced the spread of yoga and Hindu philosophy in the West.  In researching the 200-year transmission of India’s spiritual teachings to the West, I found that these three gurus stood out for their immense impact on public awareness.  They combined a steadfast reverence for tradition with skillful adaptation to the modern world.

They came to America at intervals of about 30 years, in eras that were vastly different, culturally and technologically. They were, of course, Hindu monks.  At the same time, they were well-educated, fluent in English, and knowledgeable about science.

Vivekananda, born in 1863, arrived in Chicago at age 30 as a delegate to the World’s Parliament of Religions. It was the first parliament, and it might have been the last if the ‘handsome monk in the orange robe,’ as one writer described him, had not made it memorable. He stole the show with an eloquent refutation of misconceptions about Hinduism and a dignified demonstration of that tradition’s vaunted respect for all pathways to the divine.

Yogananda was born the year of his predecessor’s triumph in Chicago and landed in Boston in 1920 to speak on ‘The Science of Religion.’ The first major guru to make the U.S. his home, he fell in love with Los Angeles, which he called ‘the Benares of America,’ establishing the world headquarters of his Self-Realization Fellowship on a rustic hilltop with a view of downtown.

The third member of the trio is destined to be known forever as ‘the Beatles’ guru.’ Born in 1918, had been circling the globe for nearly 10 years, teaching his Transcendental Meditation, by the time the Fab Four found him in 1967. He touched down in the U.S. annually for much of that time, attracting small numbers of grown-up middle-class seekers. Then TM caught on among students, and spread to the burgeoning counterculture, and when the Beatles followed him to India, Maharishi’s face became the global symbol of guruhood. It was on the cover of national magazines, the front pages of newspapers, and on national TV.

Meditation was suddenly hip, and soon it would be something more substantial, as Maharishi prodded scientists to investigate what goes on in the body and brain when people meditated. As a result of those early studies, meditation — and with it Indian philosophy — moved quickly from the youth culture to the mainstream. That trend line peaked in 1975, when Maharishi occupied the full hour of Merv Griffin’s talk show (the Oprah of its day) twice, with scientists and meditating celebs like Clint Eastwood and Mary Tyler Moore. Now, a thousand experiments later, yoga and meditation are routinely recommended by healthcare professionals.”

https://www.huffpost.com, Philip Goldberg

“Friendship, marriage, relationships, all these find their fulfillment spontaneously in fully developed potential of the individual. One can be to others to the extent one can be to oneself, only.” (TM = Transcendental Meditation)

“Spread Light wherever you go. You are not here to sit in darkness and gloom. Look for the silver lining. Why accept defeat when victory is yours if you will only claim it? If you allow things to get on top of you, if you allow yourselves to look at the gloomy, depressing side of life, it will be yours, because you draw it to you.

Start right now looking for the bright side, looking for all the things you can be grateful for, for all the wonderful things which are happening to you, for the changes which are taking place within you, for the obstacles in your life which you are learning to overcome, for the daily contacts you make.

When you can learn to think of others and forget the self, your whole attitude will change.”

inspiration@findhorn.org, guidance received by Eileen Caddy

“To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.”― Gregg Braden