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Meditation is nice when it is done intermittently. It makes you feel good and has a calming effect on the body and mind. However,...

Love has many phases and states. I would like to describe how our love can be innate, inspired, efforted, cultivated and transcendent....

A man finds himself in the middle of a great labyrinth. Every turn he takes there is either traps or treasures. He travels this...

There is an experience in spiritual practice and particularly in deep meditative practice that is a pivotal transformation that takes...

Spirituality is not for show, its not for status, its not for fame or for mere physical pleasure. When spirituality is used in some way...

Everyone knows to an extent the feeling of stage fright. That is to have anxiety about performing in front of others. Whether we...

When we compare we look at how two or more things are similar and/or different. Comparing can either make someone or something more...

When we praise and blame we raise up or put down someone because of their actions. This is inevitably based on specific circumstances in...

Everyone feels bored at one point or another. Seems like there is just nothing to do. We can keep looking for more things to do, but in...

Everyone has something that pushes their buttons. Some things make you frustrated, angry. Some things can be a trigger for addiction or...

On the topic of devotion I speak of the type of devotion that is a giving of yourself to someone or something. Much like longing (see...

Longing is a heartfelt desire to be united with someone or something, or to fulfill some goal or purpose. Longing is always a feeling of...

There are many ways to appreciate things and people. I would like to offer an account of these ways based on grosser to subtler levels of...

To see, I notice the fog, a covering of clarity. I open my mouth, to sing, and the fog churns and dances a play of graceful forms. I open...

It is easy to think that what we experience is the true reality, that what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is 100% accurate. What...

When we investigate the nature of the present moment we realize that it is in a constant state of change. The atoms around us are in a...

Negative experiences are inevitable in this world we live in. That we cannot change. What we can change, however, is how we relate to...

The meaning of things or their meaningfulness has a nature that is fully dependent on space and time, meaning it only happens in certain...

Our emotional and spiritual heart is not straight forward. It has many dynamic layers that are very different from each other. There are...

The One was beyond words, until it said the first word: Itself. Then, thinking it was its word it thought the world. It said, “what a...