• Be humble–be willing to get off stuff.
  • Don’t let pride get in the way of love.
  • Speak inwardly to God, Consciousness, the Self.
  • Unburden your heart to the higher power.
  • If there are obstacles in communication with others, then talk to them in meditation.
  • When feeling separate ask yourself, ‘How can I move closer to those I love, to the Guru, to God and to the Self?’
  • When doubt arises, and it will, pause and let uncertainty be there. Then think higher thoughts.
  • One sage advises, ‘remember in the dark, what you knew in the light.’
  • Ask for help when you should.
  • Do not fear your own feeling; every feeling changes, every feeling is temporary. Watch the rise and fall.
  • Embrace uncomfortable feeling by contemplating, ‘This is all me; I am all this. These are my own feelings, caused by own thinking.’
  • Do not be afraid to be vulnerable.
  • Let your heart open to the possibility of love–love of Self, love of humanity, and love for the Divine.
  • Do not reject the inspiration of your own Self.
  • Serve God, serve the Guru, serve your community, serve your sangha, and serve your family.
  • Live the teachings, put into practice what the great beings say.
  • Cultivate positive emotions and renounce negative ones.
  • Be on the lookout thoughts that attack you and separate you from the Divine.
  • Think higher thoughts.
  • Recognise your feeling, state your feeling and uplift your feeling.
  • Meditate, contemplate, pray and forgive.
  • Make your home a temple. Behave there as you would in a holy place.
  • Follow the path laid down by the great beings.
  • Remember Bhagavan Nityananda’s teaching, bhavana rakho, always maintain the feeling.
  • Without an open heart, there is spiritual and personal death.