As we grow, our motives become higher and more spiritual. Ultimately, our motives become love and joy. Investigate spiritual techniques like Opening the Inner Gates to refine your motives and allow Spirit’s power, energy, love and light to express.

The Kabbalah examines the ten main attributes of Spirit which can help you grow on the spiritual path. Attuning with these forces already within you allows them fuller expression. Explore these qualities of Spirit which enable you to have a fulfilling, rich, powerful, wondrous and highly motivated life.

Motives are the inner drives, impulses and intentions which cause us to act. They are central factors in influencing our level of happiness and success in life. You can change and upgrade your motives as you open yourself to the strength of soul and Spirit. Allowing your motives to be based on strength, truth and love can enrich your life immensely.

Through mirroring, seeing ourselves through the eyes of others, we receive impressions which influence our self-image. Often, we allow others to strongly influence our view of ourselves, what we can expect from life, and the meaning of life in general. It’s essential to review your accumulated mirroring and then remirror yourself, if necessary.

Sufis at times call the world in which we live the little world. Some Christians call it the veil of tears. Living in the little world, we are limited and under the tyranny of our sense-bound mind. As we rise above the noisy mind, we gradually become conscious of the soul, our true self. You can break out of your prison and live free.

In the view of yogis generally, Creation is an emanation of the Divine Spirit. Creation is furthered every time a person chooses to do good. You are attuning directly with the Lord when you seek to express goodness.

Through spiritual practice we can discover holiness — the holiness of ourselves, of one another, and of the Divine. The two main forces which block this realization are lust and greed. Transmutation of the sex drive liberates us from preoccupation sex. Transmutation of greed usually brings abundance and faith.

One jnana yoga realization is that it is God within that impels us to seek Him and to realize the Infinite. Spirit is the real self at the core of our being. It is the soul within which is calling us to realize and express our divine self. Discover how wonderful life can be when you respond to the call of your inner self.

Swami Vivekananda’s teachings on jnana yoga emphasize the realization of oneness. As you transcend the activity of the mind and ego, you find your soul, the Spirit within you. Spirit reveals that everything is Spirit expressing in different forms.