If we make spiritual progress a topmost priority, we will develop a very positive perspective to life.

The sign of spiritual progress is when we remain calm in the midst of difficulties and agitations around us.

Spiritual wisdom enables us to distinguish the advantageous desires from the unfavourable ones. Progress happens because of beneficial desires.

When Grace touches our hearts, we feel the fragrance of Divine love, the inspiration to serve, and we experience the enthusiasm to progress.

With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physique can be of much use. You push hard to reach your goals and when progress is not visible, you push even harder, without realizing that you have your emotional brakes on.

Living at ease is the biggest hindrance to progress. It prevents you from pushing your boundaries, developing new perspectives, and creating new skills.

You will require the patience to take small steps, for change always happens slowly. This is the ‘One Per cent Rule’. You cannot go from sinner to saint in a day. Instead, if you keep progressing just a delta of one per cent every day, then within a year, you will achieve a transformation of more than 350 per cent!

Be open to this learning. Let this world not become the ‘University of Hard Knocks,’ where we are forced to progress the hard way—through difficult experiences.