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I was happy to be able to catch up with the rest. But I was also saddened and surprised to find that, since my last visit, a few didn’t seem to be doing well emotionally, as if they’re struggling to find meaning in life.
It’s essential to evaluate your feelings as you would any other piece of information you gather so that you can make an emotionally intelligent choice in every situation. Logic alone won’t get you there. In the words of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, “A mind all logic is l...
The spirituality that we find in the Gospel of John is also an embodied mysticism in that it does not reject the body, but gives the body a deep spiritual meaning. This is the mystery of the Incarnation, the mystical body of Christ, and a belief in the transforming reality of the ...
The charisma that the gurus claim to manifest through revelation aligns with the meaning of the term; as vehicles of divine majesty, they promote themselves as “prabhāvaks” (religious influencers) based on a personal calling from God. It is important to clarify that the gurus are elevating ...