Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 100 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

Both are the outcome of the idea of freedom. There cannot be life,even in the plant, without the idea of freedom. In the plant or in the worm, life has to rise to the individual concept. It is there,unconsciously working, the plant living its life to...

Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 99 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

Even hells stand out with this miraculous fact that we are born rebels; and the first fact of life -- the onrushing of life itself -- against this we rebel and cry out, "No law for us." As long as we obey the laws we are like machines, and on goes th...

Is It Okay To Tease Others?

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Annagail Lynes)

What does the Bible say about laughing at people and criticizing others? We are to treat others as we would like to be treated (Matthew 7:12). How many of us would like to be laugh at and criticized? I know I didn't appreciate it when people called ...

Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 98 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

On the whole,this shows that the world is expecting a miracle. This expectation never leaves us, and however we may try, we are all running after the miraculous and extraordinary. What is mind but that ceaseless inquiry into the meaning and mystery o...

Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 97 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

A huge locomotive has rushed on over the line and a small worm that was creeping upon one of the rails saved its life by crawling out of the path of the locomotive. Yet this little worm, so insignificant that it can be crushed in a moment, is a livin...

Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 96 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

We believe in a God, the Father of the universe, infinite and omnipotent. But if our soul at last becomes perfect, it also must become infinite. But there is no room for two infinite unconditional beings, and hence we believe in a Personal God, and w...

Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 95 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

But what is independent? Not our body, for it depends upon outward conditions; nor our mind, because the thoughts of which it is composed are caused. It is our soul. The Vedas say the whole world is a mixture of independence and dependence, of freedo...

Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 91 )

(Wed Sep 26th, 2007, by Vish Writer / Swami Vivekananda)

The different stages of growth are absolutely necessary to the attainment of purity and perfection. The varying systems of religion are at bottom founded on the same ideas. Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is within you. Again he says, "Our father wh...

Light of Guidance

(Thu Sep 20th, 2007, by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan)

Light of Guidance - Compiler: Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan This wonderful book has a collection of Ayahs (verses) from The Noble Quran related to the purpose of creation with Tafsir footnotes. Full color pictures related to the ayahs are also shown thro...

How Do Core Values Differ From Personal Values?

(Wed Sep 19th, 2007, by Thomas Drummond, Ph.D.)

Core values are central to the way we exist in the world. They have something in common with other values...such as personal values...family values...or professional values. But they are specifically different from those value systems in important wa...