Tag: spirituality
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Three Disturbing Spiritual Lessons I Learned From Alan Watts That I Wish I Had Known in My Twenties
Learn from the knowledge of one of the most influential spiritual icons of the twentieth century. Alan Watts used to say that “the human being seems like a trap set to catch itself.” And it’s true, sometimes I feel like the dog rabidly chasing its tail to bite it. We are our greatest enemies, although…
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Three Things To Remember When You Meet A Higtly Spiritual Person
Second: Highly spiritual people are walking lie detectors. If highly spiritual people had customer service, their company policy could be summed up with this old Chinese proverb. “Sit patiently by the river and watch the corpse of your enemy float by.” Highly Spiritual People know that a person’s worst enemy is himself. But this attitude makes…
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Three Huge Spiritual Lessons You Only Know if You’ve Been Through Hell
#3. You can get out of hell, but you will never get hell out of you. My grandfather used to say that with time, bad luck, and enough pain, we can all become bad apples. He was right. All three factors (time, bad luck, and a lot of pain) came together in a perfect storm that…
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Three Things Divine Beings Do Differently to Succeed in Life
Third thing: Divine Beings keep their good mood when things don’t go well. Divine Beings are those pure souls who seem closer to attaining Nirvana than to continue spinning on the wheel of Samsara. We all know someone like that. — Perhaps you are such a person. A person who understands that the game of life is not…
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Six Spiritual Paradoxes That Will Blow Your Mind
#5. The more you reject it, the more you attract it. Life seems like the world turned upside down. You pursue one thing and get the opposite. Living is contradictory—a paradox. Something weird that shouldn’t be but is. Disturbing. Isn’t it? Here are a few more spiritual paradoxes to help us understand the meaning of our…
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The Mysterious Theory About The Universe That Will Blow Your Mind
Let’s talk about the Universal mind. I just finished reading Jack Kerouac’s novel Tristessa. The title resembles the Spanish word “Tristeza” (sadness). In the novel, Kerouac explores big concepts: the meaning of life, love, and our relationship with pain and pleasure. Jack is greatly influenced by his friend Alan Watts and his own Catholic thinking…
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Three Signs You Are a Highly Smart Spiritual Being
Check if you are among the few who dance down the rain when most people struggle. Life is like IKEA furniture; you have to build it yourself. And it is not easy to build the bookcase with the crappy plans that come inside of the box. Isn’t it? Same in life. Making a perfect match…
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Three Mistakes Highly Spiritual People Avoid to Live a Sexy Life
Mistake number 3: Confusing pleasure with Joy. Spiritual life can be sexier than vanilla ice cream with KitKat toppings drizzled with caramel syrup. Spiritual life is more than yoga pants, Tibetan singing bowls, silent meditation retreats, and collecting colored crystals. To be spiritual is to wake up one day and discover that success is not about…
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Three Undeniably Awful Things That Ruin the Day of Highly Spiritual People
Third thing: People who want to rule their lives. They say being happy is complicated. But it’s not. It’s people who complicate things. Being happy is easier than you think. It’s having enough with what you have and not envy others. It is to have few friends but of quality. It is to be able to…
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The Disturbing Theory of the Meaning of Signs From the Universe That Will Make You Rethink Reality
Reality is full of magic. People say that the signs of the universe are just bullshit. I’m afraid I have to disagree. Let me explain my disturbing theory 🙂 1. For me, the universe is mental The universe is the collective mind that we are all part of and shapes reality. — Without the mind, we could not understand reality…