Tag: 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 Invaluable Lessons I Learned in My Forties That I Would Have Paid Millions to Know Early in Life
“Beauty is overrated.” There are things that money can’t buy. — But only when you have the money will you know what they are. One of them is happiness, understood as a state of peace of mind and not of euphoria, a form of serene joy, which in your twenties would seem boring to you, but when…
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The Disturbing Life Lesson I Learned From Reading the Bible That I Wish I Had Known at 20
Millennial wisdom for today’s life. Sometimes, it’s not about things making sense; it’s about the reason you make things. In my twenties, I did it all the wrong way. I remember those years as living constantly with my glasses fogged up. My gaze distorted everything I did: good things seemed terrible and boring, and bad things…
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10 Disturbing Lessons I Learned Giving Advice to Thousands of Readers for 8 Years
These are real lessons for real life. I had a nightmare tonight. I was a cashier at a supermarket, and my job was to teach customers how to use an electronic machine that would eventually replace me. The machine (instead of cashing out) was giving people advice. Then I time-traveled in the dream to 2027 and…
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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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Three Disturbing Truths That Will Make You Want To Sleep With The Lights On
#1. The mind can normalize the abnormal to survive. Sometimes, my life is like a sitcom full of bad jokes that make everyone laugh except me, the central character to whom all the misfortunes happen. And it’s a bummer because life can’t be edited with Adobe Premiere, and delete the parts that embarrass us before publishing…
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The Most Underrated Benefit of the Law of Attraction
#The power of hope. Hell is like an underground Mall you enter through an elevator. The lower you go, the higher the horror you experience. Floor (-1): you lost your job. Floor (-2): your partner asks for a divorce. Floor (-3): you lose your friends. . . . Floor (-100): you are broke as f*ck: no…