Lost and Confused on the Path

During several years my life has been deeply spiritual. Meditation, reading spiritual literature and a constant inner work and process of spiritual and personal development has radically changed both my inner and outer life. I really felt connected to God and my prayers were literally answered in many ways.

Of some reason which I don’t really understand, now I suddenly feel lost and disconnected. It’s as if a very critical and questioning part of me has entered the stage. For example, reading spiritual books was a thing that really engaged me before, now I’m only thinking “from where do they get this, how can they be so sure of what they saying?” When I pray, I feel like “to what am I praying, what am I doing, why am I doing it?” I feel like I have swallowed a lot of concepts that others have made for me. I want to discover my own truth, but I don’t even know where to start, and also the critical me says there is no truth. I don’t understand at all why I am here on this earth or how anything works, and the more I’m thinking of these things, the more uncertain I get of everything. Where to start and what to do when you feel totally spiritual lost? Since I’m writing this to you, there must be a part of me that believes there is a way back. Now I wonder if you have any advice on how to find that path again?

Signs and Incidents

I am 36 years old and very interested in spiritual affairs. After reading several spiritual books, I figured out that they all refer to a phenomenon called “Signs”: the events or the incidents which serve as assets to show us our unique path to happiness.

My question is: how can we tell real “Signs” from mere incidents in our lives?

Sadness of Autumn

I always have feelings in the fall that seem sad. The leaves are dropping, its colder out, there’s less sunlight, and it feels like everyone isn’t themselves? Am I projecting this or do others share these feelings?

Big Goal Setting

I am regular reader of your books , Namaste ,and your fan too. I migrated from India before two years and now in USA.I have some question about goal setting.
My ultimate or final spiritual goal is to do so many things for society, monks, spread spirit for vegetarianism, help mentally emotionally, and financially to poor people of India, remove misconception for our country (India) and spread our culture, religion, god, good points like non violence, ayurveda, yog, pranayam (which you are doing in excellent way and I get inspiration from you too.)
Now to do all thing lot of money is required, but at present I have not sufficient fund to do so but my passion for all the things are intact.
So how can I prepare programme to give suggestion to my subconscious mind?

My questions are:
1) I have to split my goal in separate category like, spiritual, financial, personal, and career?
2) At present I am doing job and my goal needs lot of money for charity, for that I have to give Suggestion to sub conscious mind for the amount need to accomplish
my goal?
3) My spiritual, financial, and personal goals are almost connected with each other.
But I have to make my career still at my age of 44, as I am not satisfied with my career.
4) For selection of career I have to visualize only the end result like I have very good job which satisfy me ,earning of money at the required level, or I have to select the POSITION FOR JOB AND THE NAME OF COMPANY ALSO ?

Avoidance

Currently I’m investigating the thought that I’m “avoiding”.

Can you bring some clarity as to what “avoiding” means?
For example, I have a large “to do” list. Any time I do one thing, in a sense I’m avoiding doing another thing.
How does one prioritize and understand when it’s just the ego saying “You should be doing something else” or when it’s actually our inner intelligence or intuition telling us that we should be doing something else? I can’t seem to tell the difference.