heart to divine love. As guide and teacher Harold Klemp writes in The Spiritual Laws of Life, “Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed.” Singing or chanting the word HU. HU (which rhymes with the word you) is an ancient, universal name for God that can open the heart to divine love and insight. Singing the word HU, inwardly or aloud, can attune anyone to a higher consciousness where calm prevails. More information on HU—plus an inspiring recording of thousands chanting it—is online at HearHU.org. Download the free HU app for Android or Apple (search for HU, keyword Eckankar).
Embracing Joy and Strength when Times Are Tough by Elle Maurene
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ach of us is really a divine, unique, shining spiritual being: soul. Soul exists because God loves it. The challenges of life can tempt anyone to forget that birthright of joy and spiritual freedom. But accepting that birthright—really taking it to heart—helps show how tough times provide an opportunity to build inner strength.
Eckankar, the Path of Spiritual Freedom, offers tools for anyone to transform their life into a place of peace, resilience and growth. Gratitude. Thinking, writing or saying all the things one is grateful for shifts the energy from “poor little me” to “look what bounties I have in my life”. It opens the
Repeating a sacred, meaningful phrase that strikes a spiritual image in the consciousness. People have done this throughout history. Sometimes it is called prayer. The ancient Chinese ECK Master Lai Tsi offered this verse (in The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book Two): “Show me Thy ways, O Sugmad; Teach me Thy path. Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me; On Thee do I wait all day. Remember, O Beloved, Thy guiding light And Thy loving care. For it has been ever Thy will, To lead the least of Thy servants to Thee!”
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