spiritual growth

Integrating dualities for spiritual growth

If it doesn’t work to ignore, deny or avoid the negatives in our lives, how do we deal with them? We can transform our suffering by integrating our lower experiences with higher spiritual energies. Here’s the process to follow: 1. Acknowledge your discomfort with the present situation. Really feel your experience without resistance or judgment. Recognize that ...

Continually ask yourself ‘Why?’

In our drive to understand the truth of who we are, we gain much by asking ‘why?’ With any situation in life, we can ponder, “What does this mean?” This questioning automatically leads us to the level of soul. Why are we thinking, feeling and doing what we are in this moment? When we uncover ...

Do you meditate?

“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal The practice of meditation is essential for those who wish to connect with their souls. It calms our minds and makes it easier for us to pay attention to the reality around and within us. Meditation breaks through ...

Our souls will not be ruled by the clock

Author Robert Sardello talks about how our experience of time is affected by duration and tempo. We can identify the natural tempo of life in the rhythm of the heartbeat. We experience duration in the rising and setting of the sun, the ebb and flow of the tides and the continual rotation of the seasons. Today, ...

Beware of spiritual materialism.

The Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, warned of the trap of spiritual materialism. He says we must be ever diligent to spot the ego’s use of the spiritual journey to further its own ends. If ego’s wants underlie our desire for spiritual connection, we may be using spiritual techniques to strengthen our egocentric sense of who ...

Become familiar with soul.

Do you sense that something is missing in your life? Chances are, you are experiencing the lack of soul in your world. What is soul? Our minds may want to understand soul as an entity. Andrew Schneider says that “soul is who we are as incarnated Spirit, …who we are as consciousness.” Our personality, he says, is ...

Where Am I Going?

What is my destiny? This question connects us to our life purpose. It is more than just having a direction. It is about one’s place in the universe. It is the journey of finding that place and being there and living fully whatever that place is. It is your own unique place that nobody else has, ...

Why Am I Here?

Before we really start the journey, we would answer, “To get as much as I can, to experience as much pleasure as possible.” Once the journey starts and the heart is awakened, the answer takes us into ‘right relationships’. This ‘why’ question searches for meaning in our life. The answer gives us meaning because it is ...

What Do I Want?

The whole point of our journey is to become whole, to be one consciously with the All, the Universe, God. In order to traverse the gap between the experience of separation and the experience of oneness, we must learn about needs and the fulfillment of needs. Needs are those gaps in our lives where wholeness isn’t ...

Who Am I?

When we start asking “Who am I?” we have begun the journey. This question arises because we unconsciously feel that we are not the tribe, and more importantly, we are not the ego. What we are implicitly asking is: who is taking the journey? There is no final and definitive answer to this question, but by ...
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