Category: spirituality
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Three Disturbing Laws of the Universe That I Have Discovered Throughout My Life
#3. The Third law: The law of anti-attraction. Sometimes, the universe conspires not for us but against us. — Or so we think. And I think it’s because we need to learn the hard way what we don’t want to know the easy way. Thanks to these bitter learning processes, I have discovered three disturbing laws constantly…
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Three Subtle Signs You’re a Spiritual Change-Maker, And You May Not Even Know It
Subtle Sign 3: You have a gift for saying what others need to hear when they need to hear it. It’s true what they say, “People don’t change”. And much less with the years because their personality crystallizes as if it were the water of a Canadian lake at Christmas. Nevertheless, miracles happen occasionally; against all…
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The 7 Evil Twins of Your Spiritual Gifts
Discover the Doppelgängers of your virtues. Evagrius Ponticus, a monk and ascetic nicknamed the solitary once wrote, “Whether thoughts disturb the soul or not does not depend on us, but whether they stop, or do not stop in the soul, and whether they trigger, or do not trigger, the lower passions, that does depend on us.”…
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Three Cold Harsh Truths Only Highly Spiritual People Will Understand
Cold Harsh Truth 3: Life is a spiritual combat. My mother has worked for more than two decades in an extraordinary place: a nursing home for religious. It is a place of exclusive access to people who have dedicated their lives to spirituality: Exorcist priests, missionaries, cloistered nuns, and monks who lived years with a…
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Three Signs That You Are Not “a Loner”: You Are an Old Soul
#3. You don’t fall into the trap of materialism. As a kid, we all like to be seen as too mature for our age. As you get older, it sucks. They tell you things like, “You used to be cool,” “You’re turning into your dad,” or my favorite, “You’re going to end up being the old…
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11 Reasons Why the Universe is Not Conspiring for You but Against You
#5. You need to forgive yourself. Misfortunes never come alone. There are seasons when you feel you are cursed, or someone has cast an evil eye on you. Seasons when you become the sinister double of King Midas, and instead of turning everything into gold, you turn it into poop. It’s as if the universe…
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10 Bizarre Myths About Highly Spiritual People That Need to End
#9. Highly spiritual people dress weirdly. All my life, I have been called crazy for being “too spiritual.” Many have told me, “We must get over the spirituality thing; we are not living in the Middle Ages.” They don’t understand that spirituality is something serious: it is about 1) personal fulfillment, 2) union with the whole,…
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Three Subtle Signs You Have an Old Soul, and You Don’t Even Know It
#3. You’ve connected the dots. If you are an old soul But it’s still unclear to you that you’re an old soul. That’s why I want to share three subtle signs that someone has a beautiful old soul. Let’s start 1. The level of difficulty in your life is absurdly high. An old soul is an evolved…
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10 Habits of Divine Beings That Make Them Highly Intelligent People
#7. Overcome your temptations. When your mind is not working well, you can’t make good decisions. For example, when I hit rock bottom and wanted to change my life, I behaved like a fool. I wanted to change all my bad habits overnight. And it doesn’t work that way after a decade of bad habits…
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5 Mini-lessons I Learned From Alan Watts That Have Helped Me a Lot in Life
#4. “The greatest obstacle to objective knowledge is our subjective presence.” The first time I heard Alan Watts, I didn’t understand a shit. He said, “If you think you’re just inside your skin, you define yourself as a very complicated little curvature on the edge of that explosion. In space and in time. Billions of…