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How does one know if spiritual progress is happening? Here are thirteen signs:

1) An increased tendency to have spontaneous creativity and achieving high focus and productivity in work.

2) Frequent attacks of smiling along with frequent episodes of overwhelming tearful gratitude.

3) Feelings of being connected with others and nature.

4) Reduced desire for credit, or appreciation, or attention.

5) Ability to feel jealousy is diminished and there is a great reduction in intensity of anger and frustration.

6) An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
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An extraordinary film that provides us a glimpse of the miracle of life, and brings to life Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s words:

“Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.”

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Yet we struggle with life. Why go through life like this? Why not make the most of life by using the tools available to us:

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Credits: This has been put together by Raj Shah and edited by Ketna Shah.

Thanks to NASA’s “Solar Dynamic Observatory” in space we are able to see the sun as never before. On the fifth anniversary of this mission, NASA released an incredible video of some of the most stunning images it has recorded so far. Watch the movie to see giant clouds of solar material hurled out into space, the dance of giant loops hovering in the corona, and huge sunspots growing and shrinking on the sun’s surface.

The sun is incredibly important for our well being and now this video shows that it is also extremely active and extraordinarily beautiful.

As we watch this video the words from this ancient Egyptian poem reverberates in our ears:

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Since ancient times humans have grappled with questions about the meaning of life. One consistent answer is that meaning is intimately connected with love, as Leo Tolstoy states in this short poem:

“I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves,
in truth it is love alone by which they live.
He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.”

And what happens when we do find love?

“Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.”
– Anonymous

But how do we find love? The answer is that love and ego are incompatible, so to find love we have to become worthy of it by keeping our ego in check:

“And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.”
– Kahlil Gibran

But what really is love? The great philosopher and poet Tagore says:
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