Apathy and depression are the prices we pay for having settled for and bought into our smallness. It’s what we get for having played the victim and allowed ourselves to be programmed. It’s the price w...
Another common issue is over-parenting. Sometimes a parent confuses loving a grown child with bailing them out of every difficulty. At a certain age, sometimes love means tough love, that is, letting...
A useful decision or choice is to decide to stop mentally talking about everything and refrain from interjecting comments, opinions, preferences, and value statements. It is therefore a discipline to...
A hypertrophied superego can be the source of excessive guilt or scrupulosity, or it can be projected onto others, which justifies vindictiveness in extreme forms as revenge against the ‘evil’ enemy.
3. Escape. Escape is the avoidance of feelings through diversion. This avoidance is the backbone of the entertainment and liquor industries, and also the route of the workaholic. Escapism and avoidanc...
The truly humble cannot be humbled. They are immune to humiliation. They have nothing to defend. There is no vulnerability and, therefore, the truly humble do not experience critical attacks by others...
Las verdaderas respuestas siempre se caracterizan por la simplicidad. La
La verdad de nuestro propio ser real puede descubrirse en el sendero de la vida cotidiana. Lo común y Dios no son cosas distintas».
Healing is the result of not just clinical processes but also of overall biological potentialities that often do not materialize without the unseen power of spiritual alignment. Chemistry is within th...
Entregamos un sentimiento y nos damos cuenta de que retorna o continúa. Esto se debe a que todavía hay más de él para entregar. Hemos llenado nuestras vidas con todos esos sentimientos y puede haber u...
Truth is strength as an expression of integrity.
True strength is always accompanied by kindness, gentleness, and softness of expression. That position is one of choice and not one of compulsion.
These principles are in accord with the basic teaching of the Buddha to avoid attachment to worldly phenomena, as well as the basic teaching of Jesus Christ to be in the world but not of it.
The way to become that exciting person whom people want to know is very easy. We simply picture the kind of person we want to be and surrender all the negative feelings and blocks that prevent us from...
The return from the duality of the ego to the nonduality of the spirit is so difficult and unlikely that only by Divine Grace is it even possible. Thus,
The real source of stress is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe.
The greater our attachment to that which is outside of ourselves, the greater is our overall level of fear and vulnerability to loss. We can ask ourselves why we feel so incomplete. Why am I so empty...
The expression of negative feelings allows just enough of the inner pressure to be let out so that the remainder can then be suppressed.
Take, for example, a man who had not spoken to his brother for twenty-three years. Neither of them could remember what the incident was about; it had been long forgotten. But they were in the habit of...
Rather, the reason to let go of selfishness is simply because it is impractical. It doesn’t work. It’s too costly. It consumes too much energy. It delays the accomplishment of our goals and the realiz...