What does reality want me to do? That would be a good way to ask what to do next? Even to ask for help in what you need to do next. As I’ve said before, praying to the universe or asking, “What does the universe want me to do?” is a cop-out. The Universe doesn’t …
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The Awakened Self
We can use the word self to mean two different things. It can be the enlightened self, the one who is seeing and being. Or it can be the unenlightened self, caught in the ego. Sometimes these two meanings are designated with a big S or a little s. If I was the one who …
Living in presence
Living in presence means you can’t pretend. Actually that’s kind of the secret to everything. You can’t pretend, and if you want to live in presence, live in the present moment, live with your presence fully alive, it simply means that you can’t pretend. You can’t come at it through your fixed belief systems, so …
United in mind body and spirit
Being united in mind body and spirit. That’s self-mastery that’s knowing who you are.
Should we have hope?
Should we have hope? Interesting question. The answer is yes and no. In one way it’s not because things are hopeless but because so often having hope creates division. Because hope means you think somebody else is going to do something about all the problems. If having hope means you’re just sitting around happy and …
What does the universe want me to do?
What does the universe want me to do? This has become the new biggest lie that we’re telling ourselves, and telling each other. I challenge you to to look a little closer at what it is we’re constantly saying, look how pervasive it is, and look how how easy it is for something like that …
Non duality needs to be a verb
Non-duality needs to be a verb. The whole reason we have Advaita, Not-two, non-duality, is because the idea of one doesn’t work well. It’s so easy to take the idea of Oneness and turn it into a thing, turn it into a separate thing. I’m here and I’m trying to get to Oneness over there. …
Being and Becoming
So here’s an interesting thing to think about: the difference between being and becoming. So much of our spiritual search these days seems to be about becoming. Becoming something. Becoming enlightened, or getting something. Getting prosperity, getting happiness or bliss. Humanity has been around for a really long time. For ninety thousand years at least …