Category: T3
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Havens of Spiritual Understanding & Meaning Pt. 1
I have come to believe that most people have, what I call, a spiritual haven–a go to place of refuge and comfort that works for them. It is where they find connection with something greater than themselves. I often hear people say, “I’m spiritual but not religious,” or “I’m a spiritual person,” as though we…
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Haven 2: Knowledge
When the life of the mind is impacted by a heartfelt love for God, knowledge becomes a spiritual path. Learning stimulates the imagination towards God and is an undisputed necessity for the spiritual journey because much of what we think eventually goes below the surface of analysis and into our heart–the place where “As a…
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Haven 1: Life as Magic
To ignore God or mythological stories altogether because they are not factually true is to commit a greater sin of ending spiritual development by denying that stories can actually be truer than true! I don’t know about you, but my life as a kid life was pretty magical. All of my needs were taken care…
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Reward and Punishment
A more rational choice is to believe that God is everything, we are individuations of It, and that God has no need to either reward or punish Itself. You hear a lot about heaven and hell–especially if you grew up in a religious family like I did. The idea that good deeds are rewarded and…
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My life is filled with fortune and unexpected good things.
Coincidence guides my spiritual journey. When I am ready to grow in transcendent ways, new teachers appear. New friends emerge, new books and websites mysteriously show up and new experiences come my way. There is only One Spirit and all people are individualizations of It. I am both the One Spirit and the individualization. One…
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What is prayer but affirming perfection?
There is only one thing going on–and it is God. God is absolute and from this perspective the world is perfect. Awakening is the realization that “all is well” even if in my limited perspective it does not appear to be so. All things that helps me align with this perfection is prayer One of…
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Cleaning Up
Until we make the needed repairs, our lives will be no more presentable than before our awakening and will be little less than a phase we went through. When I was a young man I didn’t have a lot of money for a new home. No problem, my agent found me a “fixer-upper”. It seemed…
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What is the best way to wake up?
One never travels the path alone nor discovers they have been the first to arrive at the peaks along the way. For seekers wanting to wake up–the big question is, “How do I do that?” For those who have awakened there is great discussion about the best way of teaching others how to reach this…
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Go for expansion
The business of consciousness is growth and expansion–not maintaining a fixed point of view. What if everything you thought was true wasn’t–would you want to awaken? Would you rather be asleep and comfortable in your own cozy world as you think it is or kicked to the curb when you discover the amazing disconnect between…
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It Matters Not
Whether your awakening occurred with a dove descending from heaven or nothing at all doesn’t matter. –What matters is that you are awake! Stories of awakening are beautiful to me. They represent the life journeys and momentous events of the searching and struggling. I am especially fascinated to read stories of awakening where, in the…