Sunday, April 17, 2005

The value of effort

How do you harness your spiritual energy? Lama Surya Das talks about the importance of spiritual effort in this passage from Awakening the Buddha Within:

When Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living," the sentence struck such a profound chord of truth that even now, more than two thousand years after Socrates' death, these words continue to resound. It takes sincere spiritual effort to examine our lives and work at cultivating ourselves. Through introspection, prayer, and contemplation - mindfulness and awareness practices - we utilize the timeless, tried and true, effective inner science of spiritual awakening and transformation.

It's the transformation part that truly gladdens my heart! The transformation is real. Spiritual effort supports the kind of change in our lives that brings peace and happiness.

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