People think spirituality is about contemplating lofty ideas, like God and souls and consciousness and higher dimensions and flying spaghetti monsters and so on. But spirituality is really the most pragmatic, rational, down-to-earth business there is. ...
When you look into a mirror, what do you see? You see a pile of flesh that we generally call a person. And this person in the mirror is the person you have learned to identify with. This person is associated with wishes, desires, fears, problems,...
Anxiety is modern society’s bread and butter. Social conditioning is the only reason anxiety is rampant in the first place. We’re conditioned to be anxious. If we had a bunch of psychiatrists rummaging around everyone’s psyches, most people could...
When you wrestle with existential questions it’s inevitable to reach a certain intellectual end-point. That intellectual end-point is usually not a comfortable one because it comes with two bummers: – I don’t know anything except that I exist (and even...
If you’re reading this I know you’ve worked on yourself plenty. You’ve laid all your problems out, felt every emotion there is, turned the lights on, faced the shadows, and done all you could to fix whatever you believed needed fixing. At...
One spring night I was sitting in my room and browsing the web. The window was open, allowing the moon and the wind and the darkness to enter. Nights like these had soothed my spirit since I was a little girl. I stumbled upon an obscure piece of writing talking...