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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Which Spiritual Qualities Would You Like?

How to invite more compassion, courage and strength into your life

Qualities such as patience, love and compassion are fruits of the Spirit. Through a beautiful yoga practice, you can learn how to develop new qualities and express them as part of your life. You can change and grow, becoming a blessing to humanity.

Spiritual Development

Develop New Qualities

What is life showing you? Which qualities would you like to have?

There is a yoga practice for cultivating new virtues. The process is to choose a saint, holy one or avatar who demonstrates most clearly a quality you would like to have. Avatars are best — they are incarnations of God who have come to Earth to bless humanity and show the way. Practice meditating on your chosen ideal. By focusing on them with attention and appreciation, you can receive and develop the desired virtue within yourself.

  • Life events often indicate the need for more patience, kindness, courage and strength
  • Choose a holy person or saint who demonstrates a quality you need and want
  • Focus on that person and appreciate the virtues they express
  • By immersing your mind in that person/quality, the desired virtue can become a part of you
  • Appreciating the holy person helps shift from the ego focus of I, me, mine to You, You, You
  • Through the process of absorption, new qualities can begin to express

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