One of our newest and most popular spiritual terms is “alignment.” People are trying to find alignment with life, with relationships, with jobs, and other things. It sounds like a pretty difficult thing to do if you listen to some of the ways people are talking about it. But alignment isn’t a difficult thing. Finding […]
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The big bang hits–or perhaps an understated shift that ripples profoundly, and you wake up. Life is no longer the same. One moment it was this way. The next moment everything was different, and for some of you, that opening of realization and clarity brings enormous spiritual bliss. Now, I’m not talking about a good-feeling,
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Here’s a fun phrase: spiritual bypass. It’s gotten popular as some people have realized that’s what other people are doing on the spiritual path. As always, it’s easier to point out what others are doing wrong rather than to look at oneself, but there is a lot of truth about this. What’s a spiritual bypass?
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The spiritual path is often misunderstood in many ways, and one of the misunderstandings that I commonly hear is a confusion that somehow parenting and the spiritual path are in conflict with each other. Many people believe that living a domestic lifestyle full of diapers, paying for college, and helping on homework assignments can’t coincide
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One of the watershed moments of the spiritual path–a moment when somebody starts to understand what this path and this life are all about–is when they have to give up something they don’t want to give up. I can’t tell you when it’ll come. It can come early on your spiritual journey or late. It
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