Paramahansa Yogananda on Creating Harmony in Our Relationships With Others |
The greatest of all happiness, next to divine happiness, is to be at peace with one's immediate relations, those with whom one must live every day in the year. When people try to handle the extremely complicated machinery of human feelings without any training whatsoever, the consequent results are often disastrous. Very few persons realize that most of our happiness lies in the art of understanding the law of human behavior. That is why so many people are often "in hot water" with their friends, and, worse yet, at constant war with their own best beloved ones at home.
If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you. Read more... |
Thanksgiving Message From Sri Daya Mata
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Just as our relationships with human beings are nurtured and sweetened through attentiveness and expressions of appreciation, so it is in our relationship with God. How much it means to us when someone warmly acknowledges our friendship or reaches out to us with kindness. Through that exchange, the mutual bond is strengthened. Likewise, when we turn to the Divine and say simply and sincerely, "Thank you, Lord," He who is Love itself deeply responds to that heartfelt thought....
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