Suffering is grace. If you are reading this post today, the likelihood is that suffering brought you to my blog today. Suffering most likely brought you to the spiritual path. If someone is immersed in a comfortable happy life, they generally don’t go digging through search engine results and social media to find spiritual articles. […]
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As someone progresses on the spiritual path, they often feel less free than at the start. And they generally feel way less free than after any of those fun initial spiritual openings. What happened? What happened was the person became more conscious of the prison cell of the ego and body. The depths of ignorance
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It is so easy to want to look at society and blame it for its faults or agree with its values. We tend to do both. But as people on the path to spiritual freedom, we can do something more wise. We can use society as a mirror to reflect our ego issues back to
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Time. It goes so fast. We have so little of it. And we don’t know how much time we get. Yet, people are often lost in the illusion that they have all the time in the world, and they put off a lot of important things. One of those important things is the path to
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When someone has a big spiritual moment, there’s a tendency to think that this is the final and total spiritual experience or realization. This is particularly true if the experience was enjoyable because if something feels good, why wouldn’t you want that all the time? Well, there are lots of things that feel good that
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