- 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.