Very good question. Is it possible to become enlightened without spiritual practices and only through the grace of Divinity? That is very true. You could never become enlightened without the grace of Divinity. That is very, very true. You cannot even move a finger without the grace of Divinity and you talk of enlightenment, because […]
The disciples of Jesus and His teachings
The teachings of Jesus Christ And here Jesus with his disciples so close to him ‑‑ seeing how he made the blind see and the deaf hear and the cripple walk and raising man from the dead, things like that. And yet such a master was denied. Why? Is it because familiarity breeds some kind […]
Passion and compassion
What is basically passion, and what constitutes passion? There could be so many different kinds of passions. Certain kinds of passions are totally physical. Yet there is a divine passion which is totally spiritual, and in that spirituality of spiritual passion, there develops within you an intense longing for that divinity that we all […]
Imagining what what we are not
They are always trying to imagine themselves in a different position. In other words, it means that they always try to imagine what they are not at that moment. A person has a job as a lobbyist in the Senate. Fine. Look at the wonderful, interesting people you are meeting, lobbying around with them. How […]
Merrill Harmin Ph. D.
Merrill Harmin currently directs the Inspiring Strategy Institute, which specializes in practical ways of making schooling richer for students, more satisfying for teachers. He also teaches for the nonprofit American Meditation Society, which specializes in providing individualized meditation practices to adults. Earlier he spent 40 years as a professor of education at Rutgers University and […]
Spiritual force is what awakens the light within you
The true teacher is he who does not talk from the mind, although the mind and the mouth has to be used, but he talks from a spiritual depth which he has experienced himself. So what he is conveying to you so that your mind can grasp it is wisdom that comes from within. But […]
Divinity face to face
How do we see Divinity face to face? When we can see that force in everything, in every living being, in every creature, in anything animate as well as inanimate. When the sun shines, the sun shines for all, and the glory of Divinity is there for all. You see. So this is what we […]
Love is limitless
Love is limitless. It is beyond all boundaries. It is beginless and endless. … But when we bring love down to the individual level, how are we to experience it? When love is brought down to the individual level, that purity, or that expansiveness comes down from a universal vastness into the narrow channel of […]