Articles in the Overcoming Adversity Subcategory
To seek happiness outside ourselves is like trying to lasso a cloud. Happiness is not a thing: It is a state of mind.
The death of a parent is never easy to accept, especially when you’re an impressionable 15-year-old shielded from life’s harsh edges.
Living by intuition deepens our spiritual life tremendously, but to do so takes more courage than one might think.
The opportunity to live with other spiritual seekers is a profound blessing. Such was the case with all of us who were touched by the passing of our friend and fellow gurubhai, Vairagi Escobar.
People from all walks of life have testified that it was not Padre Pio’s miracles but his Christ-like presence and deep devotion to God that changed their lives.
When one faces a challenge on any level, what’s important is not the solution but knowing that the guru’s blessings are tangibly at hand.
I became a yoga teacher because my back hurt. At the height of my problems, I had sciatica and pinched nerves that kept me from turning my head in a normal fashion.
To flow with life means being able to adapt to everything that happens. When you live at your center, you can flow with life.
Last year while I was in New Jersey on a lecture tour, Thomas, my host, discussed how his meditation practice had helped him calm a potentially dangerous situation.
Fear is a pernicious problem that shuts down our life-force, and starts a negative cycle that becomes self-reinforcing. Fortunately, there are ways to reverse this cycle.
It is easy for a man to go down a deep, gradually descending subway, but when he tries to climb back out, he finds resistance.
Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because the desire for vengeance is a karmic cage that imprisons both individuals and cultures into enduring suffering.
In his book, Ibu Maluku, Ron shares with us an account of the courage, selflessness and devotion of Jeanne van Diejen, a woman of deep faith who always placed the needs of other before her own.
Initiative is the creative faculty within you, a spark of the Infinite Creator. Always strive to play your part well, and realize that the infinite power of Spirit is with you.
Teresa yearned for a life of solitude, absorbed in divine communion, but her calling was to lead the reform of the Carmelite Order.
In the late ’80s I was driving home one night after giving a program in Sacramento, when Paramhansa Yogananda saved my life.
“Celebrate!” those were Bella’s last words to her husband and sister before she passed away.
The Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village had been in existence for about a year when something occurred that many people considered a miracle.
Mr. Sham often said: “Mr. Honest, look here, if you will forsake all religious and metaphysical nuttiness, I will give you a financial start and you will then attract riches and friends.”
I’m not going to ask you even to imagine gratitude for what you’re suffering, but I do ask you to suspend judgment for the time being.
Much of our suffering comes from two sources: the force of delusion and our own karma.
Paramhansa Yogananda wrote Whispers from Eternity to show us the attitudes of the soul that draw God’s response to prayers.
Our past difficulties did not come to crush us but to strengthen our determination to use our limitless divine powers to succeed. God wants us to conquer the difficult tests of life and come back to His home of wisdom.
A man of tremendous will power and energy, George Washington placed duty, honor, and the ideal of selfless service first and foremost in his life.
The situation was getting more desperate every day. The entire neighborhood crawled out of bed every morning more tired than the day before.
Some years ago I had an extraordinarily painful attack of kidney stones. I’ve never experienced anything like it—the pain was so intense that every muscle in my body was quivering like a leaf.
Each of us has the ability to develop the spiritual power to remain unaffected by the turmoil we find in the world today. Yogananda said that those who follow this path will be protected during difficult times to come.
The real challenge of our times is the introduction of a more flowing, intuitive kind of consciousness and a greater awakening of Spirit.
One of the things that touched me so much was to see the real dynamic, joyous determination to build again.
