Tag: Mindfulness
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11 Signs That You Are the Kind of Person Who is Having a Spiritual Awakening
(And You May Not Even Know It). When you wake up spiritually, you don’t know that you are waking up spiritually. You think you have eaten something bad 🙂 You feel strange. You feel different. You think something weird is happening to you, but you don’t know how to name it, and it’s scary as f*ck. Because…
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The straw that broke the camel’s back
The straw that broke the camel’s back was the one that saved you. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the one that set you free. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the one that changed you. Unfortunately, human beings only change when the pain of staying where they are is greater…
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You are like a cloth that gets dirty over time.
The cloth cleans well at first, but if you don’t take care of it, it will stain all the glass every time you use it. You must wash the cloth, put it under the tap with soap, and rub it. And then you can wipe with it again and leave all shiny. I’m not telling…
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Maybe you’re already happy, but you don’t realize it.
Your problem is that you’re asking for a little and looking for it in the wrong place. You’ve become obsessed with knocking on the wrong door. And if it doesn’t open… It’s because it’s not your door. And you can leave your knuckles knocking, it won’t open, and if by chance it does open, don’t…
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Ram Dass Didn’t Teach Me the Most Powerful Spiritual Lesson I Learned This Year: My Mom Did
Everyday wisdom for modern life. The other day my mother, during a meal, said to me, “I have seven siblings. All with more money than me. But I can be happy eating boiled rice in a tiny apartment, and they are not happy even in a mansion eating caviar.” And this sentence blew my mind. I…
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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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Three Subtle Signs That You’re About to F*ck Up Your Life
#3. You have started to deny people the chance to get to know you. I’ve hurt myself so badly for so long that if screwing up was basketball, I’d be Michael freakin’ Jordan. Fortunately, I’ve changed, but that doesn’t mean my self-destructive impulses have disappeared. Those impulses are like an uncomfortable roommate that lives in my…
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The Zen Way to Recover in 5 Minutes From a Bad Day
Old wisdom for today’s life. There are many reasons why you can have a bad day. And only a few things that make it better. I know. But certain spiritual traditions, tested over millennia, can bring you back to your center. And that’s vital to recovering from a bad day. Here’s a tool from one of…
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How Detachment Can Make You More Happy, Wealthy, and Admire
Do yourself a favor: stop getting attached to these three things. Clinging to things has its advantages. But like coins, it has two sides. The b-side of attachment is jealousy, obsession, pain, guilt, longing, depression, living death, and all those things that make you call your ex at 3 AM and hang up as if doing…
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As You Awaken, the More “Unsexy” Your Life Becomes
(At least the mundane one.) I’m 13 years old. I’m at the bus station in Salamanca. I put my hand in a machine like the one in the movie Big. I get a little piece of paper that says: “You will have an interesting life, but you will be poor.” 🙁 I take the bus with the…