An overview of our articles about spiritual awakening, enlightenment, self-actualization, non-duality, and personal growth.
This thing we like to call “Spiritual Enlightenment” is surrounded by a whole set of myths. Not only on how to “reach” or “become” it, but also on how an “Enlightened being” supposedly functions or [ Read more … ]
Some people are so fed up with how things work in this world that they embark on “boycotting the system” or “boycotting society’s way of life and living.” And, of course, that’s only sensible, a [ Read more … ]
A couple of years ago in Thailand, I was discussing the quest for Spiritual Enlightenment and Self-Realization with an acquaintance, and at some point she asked me: “But when are you becoming a finder?” At [ Read more … ]
I’m doing business, but it isn’t business really. It’s no-business. No business at all. It isn’t your business either, as it isn’t mine. It’s merely that things happen and we find ourselves being actors in [ Read more … ]
Living life our own way is not something one finds. It’s something that expresses and shows itself when all artifice and cunning has been cast off. When that happens, our lives become spontaneous, rather unplanned, [ Read more … ]
The state of celibacy (usually synonymized with chastity) is when a person is voluntarily unmarried (or unpartnered) and/or deliberately practices Sexual Abstinence (Sexual Continence) or restraint. Celibacy is typically engaged in because of religious, philosophical, [ Read more … ]
Self-Realization is to realize what we are. It’s finding the truth behind appearances. It’s to realize that we are not what we thought we were. It’s to find that whatever we think we are is [ Read more … ]
The Dutch have an expression which (translated) goes something like this: “When you get shaved (at the barber’s), you have to sit still.” I suppose I have a bit of this now — the feeling [ Read more … ]
War is love because we fight for what we think we love. Murder is also love because we love the money, our country, family, or the ideals and beliefs we kill for. Hate is love [ Read more … ]
Amrita (or Amritam) is an ancient Indian concept that has different meanings depending on the context. It’s a Sanskrit word usually translated as “nectar,” “immortality,” “imperishable,” “immortal essence,” “drink of the Gods,” “deathless,” “life elixir,” [ Read more … ]
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