and gives us something to look forward to—a goal to achieve, a destination to look forward to. A person without purpose or meaning is like a drifting ship at sea.
To grow spiritually is to understand interconnections.
Religions emphasize the concept of our relatedness to all creation, live and not living. So we call other people “brothers and sisters” even if there are no direct blood relations. Moreover, deity-centered religions such as Christianity and Islam speak of the relationship between humans and a higher being. On the other hand, science relys on our link to other living things through the evolution theory. This relatedness is clearly understood in the concept of ecology, the interaction between living and non-living things. In psychology, connectedness is a characteristic of self-transcendence, the highest human need according to Maslow. Recognizing your connection to all things makes you more humble and respectful of people, animals, plants, and things in nature. It makes you appreciate everything around you. It encourages you to go beyond your comfort zone and reach out to other people, and become helpers of all other things around you.
Growth is a journey. So to grow in spirit is a day-to-day process. We win some we lose some, but the important thing is that we learn, and from this knowledge, further spiritual growth is made possible.
Todd Gaster is a trainer of NLP and Hypnosis, a Master Coach of NLP and a Brian Tracy business coach. He is also the creator of Program Your Destiny a free weekly teleseminar series. Get in Now: ==> http://program-your-destiny.com
www.siddhayatan.org http www.siddhalishree.com (blog) No one is ever satisfied. Greed, Greediness and being greedy is the root of sin. No one is ever content, people always want more, more, and more. Having everything doesn’t bring happiness. Transcription Greediness, the root of sin King Akbar of India and his minister, Birbal, used to take evening walks together. One day they were passing by a shop and they noticed that the owner was sitting and he was very sad. They asked him why he felt so sad. He told them that at the beginning of winter he had bought 100 blankets for 5 rupees each hoping to sell them all. But he could not sell any and winter was coming to an end. The next day, the king announced that everyone had to come to the court meeting with a blanket; otherwise they would have to pay a fine. Everyone went to the man’s shop and bought his blankets but he kept raising his price. He sold all except one, which he wanted to keep for himself. Then Birbal came to buy the last blanket. He offered the shopkeeper 100 rupees. The shopkeeper would not sell it. Not until Birbal offered 200 rupees was he able to purchase it from him. The following day, the King and Birbal walked by his shop and they saw him very sad again. The king wanted to know the reason why. The shopkeeper was upset that he had not raised the price of the blankets from the very beginning. He said that he could have made much more money and could’ve been rich if he had sold each blanket for 100 rupees …