The spiritual teacher-spiritual student relationship is a profound one. It really is unlike any other relationship, and it is unlike most other teacher-student relationships. There is a depth to it that is unmatched, and the tenderness, power, and intensity that merge together create a power of love, intimacy, and connection that can overwhelm the student […]
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One of the harder ego issues to crack is the desire for a safe future. It seems so inherently natural to want a safe future that few people even realize that this is an issue. That’s often how it is with the biggest issues that people have. They are completely hidden in plain sight. Their
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Lately, I’ve been emphasizing the intensity that goes on after a spiritual awakening. A true spiritual awakening is like a spark that ignites a fire that takes over a person. If totally embraced, a person can be burned down to nothing. This “nothingness” scares the crap out of the ego, but to the true self,
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For my last talk of 2017, I felt like talking about the pain of ego death. Dissolving the unconscious ego can be surprisingly painful. It’s particularly painful if a person doesn’t know that that is what is happening, and they are usually doing a lot of intentional resisting. Even when someone does know they’re releasing
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Many people come to a space in their inner work where their minds have become regularly quiet. Some have mental quiet almost all the time except when they need to think about something, and some people always were relatively mentally quiet. But is the spiritual journey done? No. Mental quiet has nothing to do with
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