Tag: spirituality
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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…
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The Amazing Teaching of Jesus of Nazareth That Changed My Outlook on Reality
And maybe yours. If you don’t share the Christian view of things, that’s okay. In this article, you can substitute the word God/Jesus/Holy Spirit for the word Universe. Now let me tell you the most fantastic lesson that Jesus (the universe) has taught me along this journey called life. The most important lesson of my spiritual…
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Three Things I Had to Forgive and Forget to Get Out of Hell
#2. I forgot my enemies. I remember when everything went wrong. I remember the pain. I remember the rage. I remember the helplessness. I remember the humiliation. I remember the shame. I remember the smell of the f*cking pillow soaked with tears. I remember the feel of the sheet I covered myself with so that not…
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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…