Category: spirituality
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We Don’t Relate to Things, but to the Idea We Have of Things
Don’t underestimate your thoughts. It is not the things that happen to us but how we deal with them. And as long as we don’t face them like the river’s water surrounding the rock, we won’t flow to the next thing. And we will remain stagnant, and stagnant water ends up smelling bad 🙂 Sometimes I…
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Learn This Unsexy Lesson From Jesus of Nazareth, and You Will Put Your Life Back Together Again
Millenary wisdom for modern life. When I thought I was flying, I was crawling, and now that people think I’m crawling, I’m flying. This world is the world upside down. And when you think you’re at the top, you usually hit rock bottom and vice versa. Because effort is seen as unsexy and undesirable, but as…
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Three Quotes by Rumi That Will Blow Your Mind and Reshape Your Approach To Life
Peaceful wisdom for turbulent times. They say that the same book can be many books; it all depends on the eyes that look at it. And it is true because the same text can provoke one thought or another depending on the person who reads it. And on top of that, readers only read the…
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Three Disturbing Lessons That My Inner Child Constantly Reminds the Adult That I Am
#3- Don’t ever put your hand down. 1. Hate is a fire that can spread through words I was nine years old the first time I knew I would die, I had gone on vacation to the village—a small village of less than two thousand inhabitants where news spread faster than gunpowder. One of that news was…
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The Krisnahmurti’s Question That Changed My Whole Outlook on Reality
Krishnamurti’s twentieth-century prediction came true in the early twenty-first century. In Krishnamurti’s lecture in Madras (India) on January 10, 1981, he predicted artificial intelligence and how it would take everything. And after his argument, he asked a question so powerful that it made me rethink the reality of things and my existence. And I want…
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5 Spiritual Lessons on Dealing With Bad Times I Wish I Knew Sooner
“Learning to receive is as difficult as learning to give.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Book of Life is written with indelible ink: the mistakes you make cannot be erased. And you rarely get a second chance. What you can do is learn from your mistakes because what you do repeat are the seasons, both the good ones…
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Three Subtle Messages From the Universe Hidden in the Alchemist
(Maybe One of Them is for You.) When a writer becomes universal, it is because he understands and knows how to communicate efficiently that which concerns the world. For this, the writer has to go deep inside himself. Because in the depths of our being is where everything becomes one. And it is in this unified…
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Three Disturbing Life Lessons From a Soldier Who Became a Zen Monk
#3. War does not happen from one day to the next. “I am a murderer. I have killed people in war, and the life I live today is rooted in this awakening. But if we do not wake up, these cycles of war, violence, and suffering will continue.”— Claude Anshin Thomas. Claude Anshin Thomas volunteered for the…
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The Navajo Indian Saying That Changed My Life Forever
Native American wisdom to make it big in life. There is an old Navajo tribal saying that changed my life entirely at a time when I was paralyzed by fear and doubt. The saying is short and straightforward but is of unfathomable mystical and spiritual depth. It goes like this, “Jump, and the floor will appear.”…
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The Disturbing Theory About the Subconscious That Came to Me in a Dream
Lessons on self-sabotage. Tonight I had a nightmare with a happy ending. I dreamt that I was looking for a bar to go pee. And I went into half a dozen bars, and there was no WC in any of them. Fortunately, the alarm clock went off, and I realized I wanted to go to…