Keep going. Keep doing your practices. Most importantly, keep meditating. It’s meditation that matters most. All the other practices help. They help you with your body. They help you with your mind. But most importantly, they help you with your meditation. Even if you haven’t found the universe within, somehow, you get it when I tell you it’s there. You already have a sense of the truth of it. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda 

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Beyond where you live and who you share your life with, who are you? The inner answers are the only ones that count.  Particularly after Shaktipat, these answers become more available.  They are more available and more powerful.  Beyond guidance for handling life’s problems, the inner answers reveal the source from which they come.  You see, you think you are the one getting the inner answers.  You think that the answers arise from an inner Source that is separate from you — that you have an inner Source and you are someone who is separate from that Source and you are getting the answers.  However, you are the Source.

-Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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You can choose your attitude as well as your words and actions. You are choosing how to live and who to be. Use your mind without losing your inner state. Your mind functions with more clarity and creativity, when it is rooted in your deeper essence called Self.  Your choices are based in Consciousness. So is your life. So are you.

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Bliss happens inside. Happiness happens inside. You already know this when the weather is just right, or when everybody is doing exactly what you want. Ha! And it all works so you can be happy. Where do you feel the happiness? Where is it? It’s inside. Happiness is just a hint of the bliss that’s a little deeper within. So go for the source. Dive inside, and then bring your bliss with you. – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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How do you get Divine eyes?   Meditate.  When you have Divine eyes, you have clarity, but you also have compassion.   You see that everyone, regardless of their circumstances, is inherently lovable. They are inherently worthy of respect, even if they don't know it and don't act like it.  They are, each and every one of them, doing what they know to do. And they may need some help with that, and you can see it.  It doesn't mean that you have to do all the things that they need.

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Now, my spiritual geography might be different than yours. When I think of God, or when I look for God, I look in the inner spaces of my own being. I remember when I used to look outside for God. I confess that I didn’t really know where to look. I’d look up toward the sky, and if there were clouds, I’d wonder, “Well, which one is God on?” And if the sky were clear, well, in that vast space, where would I find God? – Gurudevi Nirmalananda 

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