Before we get into the signs of spiritual awakening and why they don’t matter, I want to make sure we’re on the same page. People interpret spiritual awakening differently. For some, it may be feeling more connected to their soul, nature, some...
The question if there is a God arises only in a mind that struggles for an explanation, which, at some point in every life, is every mind. Why do things happen the way they happen? Why are there pain, destruction, murder, and traffic jams? If there is a...
If you’re reading this, I assume you’ve already heard or read about the benefit of accepting things as they are. And if the good ol’ regular acceptance was not enough, someone may have suggested practicing radical acceptance to you. The...
The spiritual Self is often depicted as the opposite concept of the ego-self. But if we see the spiritual Self as our true nature, then it is a fundamentally different paradigm than the ego (what we usually consider to be us). So let me start by saying,...
“What is the greatest wonder? Each day death strikes, and we live as though we were immortal. This is the greatest wonder.” – The Mahabharata Let’s get to something uncomfortably real, shall we? Death. The attachment to life is...
True freedom is not for the faint of heart. Most of us want to be free. At least that’s what we think we want. We claim we want to be free from pain, free from suffering, free from any kind of inner turmoil. And of course free to be, do, and have...