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Softening Your Heart

Do your motives come from a sense of strength or weakness?

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.

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Base Your Motives on Strength

Do you approach your daily life from a sense of strength or weakness? The worthwhile qualities of life have their source in strength:  right conduct, straightforwardness, happiness, steadfastness, liberation, self-realization, God-realization.

One way to enrich life immensely is to examine our motives and the sense of self on which they are based. Motives can be infused with energy, dynamism and truth as we begin to open to the strength of soul and Spirit. Motives which reflect strength lead to improved ways of thinking, feeling, living and succeeding. Allow the strength of the soul and Spirit to empower your motives.

  • Motives are the main indicators of the condition of the heart and one’s spiritual progress
  • Sri Yukteswar (The Holy Science) describes the stages of the heart and their increasingly refined motives
  • Motives are based on an underlying sense of strength or weakness
  • Identification with Spirit/Source is called atma bodha, living from the strength of the soul
  • All spiritual qualities have their source in strength
  • As you open to Spirit and soul, your motives are uplifted
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