8 Spiritual Principles for Connecting with the Divine Inside
The more you integrate them, the deeper your connection to God.
No list of spiritual principles can, on its own, help you to feel a deeper connection to God. But without spiritual principles, life on the spiritual path can feel like a journey where you’re stumbling around without even so much as a compass, much less a map or a guidebook.
Each of us must make the journey to the divine inside on our own. These are not, then, a fixed set of practices for connecting with your higher self or a higher power. Nor do they provide a normative template for how to behave.
Bereft of prohibition or command, they are instead a lens through which to view our world. Use them as a touchstone or anchor to return to when the riptides of life toss you about and, in so doing, invite you to return to older ways of handling conflict and pain.
You Are Light
This has become so commonplace in spiritual teachings that it might seem banal to begin here. But it is so easy to forget what it means and, more importantly, what it does not mean.
The essence of this principle is that you are a spiritual being having a human experience. This means, first and foremost, that you are connected directly…
