Next week I’ll be moving into my new one bedroom apartment. I can’t afford the rent with the money I currently make, but I have a money market account and a couple fist fulls of stocks thanks to a distant relative I’ve never met before who died last year.
I’m dealing with the pain [...]
Posts under ‘Spirituality’
Flying Solo
Relieving Social Anxiety by Remembering the Dream
Yesterday I obsessed over something I said that was really stupid. I just couldn’t stop thinking about it and then every time I did think about it, a huge pang of guilt and embarrassment washed over me. I think this obsessive thinking is an old remnant from having social anxiety. Growing up [...]
What Question Should I Ask?
It occurred to me today (meaning Friday since it is a little past midnight on Saturday right now) that I can’t know what to seek if I don’t know what it is I’m seeking in the first place.
When I was depressed, I sought happiness. That’s easy. Dualism 101…just take the thing you don’t [...]
Being One with Zip-lining and Snorkeling
Tomorrow I’m off to a 9 day cruise in the Caribbean. It’s my first cruise, my first time to the Caribbean, my first time traveling over seas!
It’s very exciting and a completely new experience for me. The only other REAL vacation I ever had before this–meaning a getaway that lasted longer [...]
Focusing on the “I” Within
I am reading Pathways Through to Space by Frank Merril-Wolff. It is very rich and full of insight, but also the kind of book that can only be taken in bite sized pieces. I read a few pages at a time and then need a 15 minute bread to absorb the material. [...]
Nondualism and A Course in Miracles
Nondualism
Nondualism is the concept that everything in the universe is an illusion of separation, while true reality is pure oneness. I’ll refer you to Wikipedia which has the most straightforward definition I’ve been able to find:
Nondualism may be viewed as the understanding or belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena. Examples of dualisms [...]
The Path to Enlightenment is Hectic!
Wow! Things have been really busy lately.
It’s like as soon as I decide to follow a spiritual discipline life suddenly goes up all in my face and says Oh yeah? Try doing it with all THIS thrown at you! And then life laughs and runs away.
I work at a [...]
The Path to Enlightenment is Boring
Momma never told me that the path to enlightenment would be boring. Every single drop of drama falls away, leaving very little excitement left to play with, and somewhere in the distance the complaints of the ego can be heard as its world slowly disappears.
The path to enlightenment is not only boring, [...]
Making the Choice for Enlightenment
Earlier this year I listened to the audio version of A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and I simply can not get enough of this information on how to relinquish the ego and be present. It has become obvious to me that complete surrender to the now is the only way to experience the [...]
You Only Have Two Choices In Life….Ever
There is a time when you are so deep in darkness that you have two choices: Continue to suffer or light a little candle inside of you.
A candle that you will care for every day. You will treat it as the most precious thing in the world.
You will be immensely happy when you find it [...]
