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Weekly Wisdom: Get Rid of Aggression Like Tossing the Trash
In response to a question from someone who wanted to understand the root causes of brutality and aggression, Gurudev shared the following: Aggression and brutality indicate weakness or incapacity to digest a situation. If someone thinks, “I’m so weak,” t ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Discover The Secret of Overcoming Jealousy And Envy
In response to a question from someone who had been cheated on and couldn’t let go of their jealousy, Gurudev shared the following: Now, I tell you, wake up and see. What are you jealous about? The person you are jealous of is going to die one day. The pe ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Love and Its Distortions
Love is the only thing in life for which we don’t need to find proof. It is the very basis of our existence. We are all made up of a substance called love, yet we seem to spend our entire lives searching for it. It’s like a doll made of candy asking, “Wh ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Free Will, Human Values, and Celebration
You must know that life moves in the direction of the best. Wherever there’s something better, life moves that way. On the way, you may find rough roads. But still, all the difficulties you’ve faced in the past year have given you a certain depth. The di ... -
Weekly Wisdom: How to Save Your Mind
When it comes to relationships, we should think of many ways to deal with selfish or difficult people. All of these ways are through love. Try to understand why they’re selfish. They haven’t experienced love in their life so they become selfish. They don ... -
Gurudev’s New Year’s Message for 2022 with Guided Meditation
Usually, we look forward to what the New Year has for us. Don’t we think about what the New Year has to bring to us? More gifts? More misery? More problems? What is it that’s in store for us? What is the surprise that the New Year is going to give us? Thi ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Evolution is Guaranteed
A year has all the seasons; winter, summer, spring, and fall. In some years the winter is harsh. Other years there’s too much rain and flooding, or perhaps the summer is too hot. But every year has all the seasons. In the same way, one’s life has all the ... -
Weekly Wisdom: 4 Surprising Ways to Get Rid of Sadness
Nobody on the planet can take you out of your sadness. You have to do it yourself. There’s an ancient proverb in Sanskrit that says, “There’s nobody who can give misery to others if they don’t take it.” There’s no giver of misery or happiness. One’s own ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Time, Space, and God (part 2)
Do the past and future actually exist anywhere other than our minds? And if not, then is time just a theoretical concept created by us? Events as energy do exist because energy can never be destroyed. But events as physical happenings do not. The same is ... -
Giving Thanks in the Time of COVID. Special Note by Gurudev
In the past, the United States of America has gone through a lot of turbulence and we have learned a lot from those challenges. On this Thanksgiving Day, let's remember all the virtues that we have, all the blessings we have received, and all the str ...
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