All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘duality’
Got the Mystical Wisdom Behind Generosity?
0Consider these words of our Mystic: “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion . . . These are the things which renew humanity.” —Buddha Most of us will hear these words and immediately start striving for these specific kinds [...]
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Awake vs Asleep: The Duality of Our Spiritual Journey
In the world of consciousness growth and spiritual evolution, being “awake” is a highly valued and desired state of being. Whether you define “awake” as being conscious, alert, aware, present, mindful, or just cognizant of what’s going on, this prized state brings you closer to [...]
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Wealth vs. Poverty: The Dance Between the Underdog & the Privileged
The Problem: One of my graduate students from the Facticity Wisdom School recently shared a fascinating discovery with me. She’d been struggling for awhile with the dilemmas of wealth versus poverty, and the privileged versus the underdog. She felt conflicted around her passion for re-distributing [...]
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Want to Simplify the Complexity of Your Life? There is a Proven Way
Our human experience is complex. To handle that complexity, you’ll often find yourself striving to just make it simple; to end the uncomfortableness of the frustration, the uncertainty, the ambiguity, and the fear. You probably succumb to your first and automatic impression that things are [...]
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Is Essential Stillness Awaiting Your Attention and Presence?
Deepak Chopra has said, “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” To touch this stillness our modern day mystic speaks of, we must become aware it is not the everyday ordinary stillness that is the opposite of movement. Our mystic [...]
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How to Actualize Service and Joy in Our Daily Lives
This beautifully succinct insight by Rabindranath Tagore can create quite a powerful stir in the unconscious mind: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.” First, up jumps joy and [...]
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The Paradox of Human Experience: The Positive & Negative Sides of Our Reality
The Dalai Lama said, “Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being …. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative [...]
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