Tag: spirituality
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Three Hamster Wheels You Need to Get Out of as Soon as Possible
#2. The spiritual hamster wheel. I just had coffee with Avril Lavigne. No. I’m just kidding. But I did have coffee next to a girl who looked like a cross between Avril Lavigne and Pink: all-star sneakers, ripped jeans, punk t-shirt, gold earrings, full of tattoos, and half of her hair orange and the other half…
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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…
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Three Unsettling Signs That Your Life Is Going to Change
Because it’s not all about synchronicity and seeing the number 11 everywhere. I get it; you need good news because your life sucks. I’ve been there too. But if you don’t confront reality, reality will confront you. So, let me be the bad cop of the movie and tell you what no one is talking…
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Omoiyari, the Japanese Habit That Helps Me Recover From Breakups
Japanese wisdom for real life. The other day I saw a video of a 25-year-old guy saying that his life sucked for the following reasons, And I said to myself, I may not be able to help you with the job or the not going bald thing — I’m not a bio-hacking guy or a financial guru — but I…
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The Mind-Blowing Quote by Alan Watts That Marked a Before and After in My Life
Discover the wisdom of one of the most iconic spiritual leaders of the twentieth century. Once upon a time, a person was sick, and that person was me. I didn’t feel fulfilled in my work, it generated a lot of stress, and I ended up with an irritable colon. I didn’t feel loved; all the…
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Three Signs You’ve Escaped From the Matrix and Don’t Even Know It
#3. You no longer take the bait of “money brings happiness.” Long story short: My friend Adrian works in an art gallery in town. Today while I was buying bread, my friend kidnapped my mother and sat her in a chair at the gallery entrance to have her caricatured (apparently, there was a meeting of…
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Three Signs You Are Becoming the Person You Were Born to Be
Find out if you are on the right path. Life is like a Jim Carrey movie: it doesn’t seem to make sense, but if you let yourself go, you enjoy the show. The problem is that life is much longer than a two-hour movie. And we get impatient when we spend years, even decades, without knowing…
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The Alan Watts Disturbing Theory About Consciousness That Will Change Your Outlook on Life
Discover the wisdom of one of the greatest spiritual philosophers of the XX century. Everything goes fast these days; everything changes at lightning speed. So much so that I often don’t know what decision to make or what to do with my life. Because what’s good for today may not be suitable for a year from…
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Soji, the Japanese Habit to Transform Your State of Mind
The Buddhist Monk practice that (if you apply) can change your day for the better. My Youtube feed seems to have Diogenes: I log in and get a pile of videos full of sh*t. My Twitter feed seems bipolar: one day, it’s right-wing, and the next, it’s left-wing. It’s vegan and carnivore, environmentalist and denialist, Buddhist,…
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The Powerful Quote From Rumi That Changed My Life Forever
Learn from one of the wisest persons of all time. The fish dies by the mouth. And It’s the same in life. As the Epictetus used to say, “we have two ears to hear twice as much before we speak.” But we find it very hard to keep it in mind, and in the end, our…