The first spiritual teacher for many, many people is not a person. The first spiritual teacher–and often an ongoing and subsequent teacher for years–is pain and suffering. It’s pain and suffering that teaches most people that something is wrong. It’s pain and suffering that drives a person to find the truth and to find freedom […]
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Surrender is a common topic on the spiritual path because it is so essential to acknowledging the here now. Primarily, people are actively engaged with fantasies in their minds. They are engaged with fantasies of the ego that project ideas and feelings onto situations rather than seeing the reality of them. The ego is also
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There are many kinds of experiences on the path to spiritual freedom, and one of the interesting ones is this loss of a sense of individuality. This “loss” can be encountered at any stage of the spiritual journey, and depending on how someone engages with it, it can be a beautiful experience or a terrifying
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The power of a student-teacher relationship has many, many aspects, and for some connections, that power extends beyond direct interpersonal connection. It extends into the energetic/spiritual world where we are all one and are never separate from one another. That can create the experience for a student of feeling his/her spiritual teacher energetically being with
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We are all one. It’s such a simple statement, but it is something people rarely realize within themselves. We are all one. Yet, we live in a world of separation and are taught to create countless kinds of energetic, intellectual, emotional, and physical walls. Look around you now. You probably are seeing walls of some
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