I received the following message from someone on Facebook this morning and it struck me as very good advice.
By Vicki Miller:
"Everyday we make thousands of judgments about people, places, situations and events. These judgments happen so quickly and are such a part of our lives that we are not even aware that we are [...]

The Power of Sadhana and Sangat
When we face challenge and adversity in life, the natural tendency is to find safety. Yet life is a sequence of challenges, each with its own sequence of failures or successes, tragedies or triumphs. It is the challenge that makes us grow, not the result. This is an important [...]

by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa * ekongkaar.blogspot.com
There is a story I read once, about a monk who lived on his own on the outskirts of a village. One day, a young woman accused the monk of getting her pregnant. The other villagers believed her. After the baby was born, the illegitimate child was given [...]

Today’s lesson begins with a question: You have a ring on your finger, a very important ring to you; it was a gift from your great grandfather to his wife, your great grandmother, and then it passed down through the family. It has now been lovingly and respectfully bestowed upon your finger, which is just [...]

Learn to clear your mind to receive spiritual guidance whenever you need it.
The yogis spent thousands of years fine-tuning a practical system that can help us learn to use our amazing mind-computers to access our intuition. Using intuition, the choices we make can lead to real happiness in life.  The same way we use [...]

When you are no longer the witness; when you are no longer holding out for a peek to see if you are ‘OK’ . . . you are then ‘OK’ to the ‘n-th’ degree. Unaware of all that you might be; you are simply employing life-force (Prana) as a means of being.
All that you [...]

There is a story in India about an old yogi who spent his life meditating in the mountains.  After years of practice, the yogi developed all kinds of powers and special abilities, but in the end, he realized something was missing.
The yogi had heard about an old and very wise sage whose community practiced meditation [...]

by ek ong kaar kaur khalsa – ekongkaar.blogspot.com
Lately, I have been experiencing a bout of Blogger’s guilt.
Years ago, if you wrote an article for a magazine, you had months of lead time to do something thorough, to do something well – time to think, time to be creative, time [...]

by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa
Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh.
For those of you who might be interested, I am teaching two different weekends at the end of January and the beginning of February. These are the only times I’ll be teaching outside of Espanola, New Mexico, for the first half [...]

It is a yogic truism that the Universe will always take care of us, if only we will allow it! – By Darshan F. Jessop
Let go of the ego and step into service. We can make a difference every day by acting from a place of authenticity and selflessness. Every moment we can [...]

If I know anything at all about money, it’s because of my father.
His is the kind of story that probably could never happen today. Worked his way in RCA up the corporate ladder – having attended, but never completed, college. Eventually, he landed as the head of the International Finance Division for RCA’s broadcast equipment [...]