The highest direction is that which takes us to God.

Excerpt

In Bhakti-Yoga the central secret is, therefore, to know that the various passions and feelings and emotions in the human heart are not wrong in themselves; only they have to be carefully controlled and given a higher and higher direction, until they attain the very highest condition of excellence. The highest direction is that which takes us to God; every other direction is lower.

Source Vivekananda, Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion, The Naturalness of Bhakti-Yoga and its Central Secret, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Swami Vivekananda, in Bhakti-Yoga, the path of love for God, our passions and emotions are not wrong in themselves: they only need to be directed ever higher, all the way to God. Today, when a strong emotion runs through you, anger, enthusiasm or sadness, ask yourself how to turn its energy into a gesture of kindness.

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