Self-doubt is a silent saboteur. It sneaks in when you want to change direction or are about to try something new, making you feel that you’re not ready or good enough or that you don’t have what it takes. It shows up as overthinking or as false humility. It may simply deflate you with a sense of “What’s the point?”…
Category: Nonduality
Spiritual Awakening vs. Emotional Baggage: Why Growth Can Feel So Hard
Spiritual awakening can seem hard, but it is your true state. You create imaginary obstacles, based on the idea of being deficient in some way, but you are always at the threshold of your own liberation. You just don’t know when you’re ripe for your ultimate destination, so all you can do it try to dissolve your ego at every…
Why Most Spiritual Teachings on Happiness Are Wrong
We all yearn for happiness. And now, everywhere we turn we see books, teachers, and traditions offering methods to cultivate it. Meditations, affirmations, and gratitude practices, even renunciation are often prescribed as pathways to happiness. But what if all these methods are missing the point? What if happiness is not something to be attained but something that emerges when all…
How To Counter the Need to Control We See in the World
Have you noticed that most of our worldly life revolves around control? From romantic relationships or parenting to work dynamics and public images, we feel a constant pressure to control situations, nature, or the future. We’ve built entire systems—cultural, political, medical, educational—around the illusion that we can and must control life to feel safe. Yet beneath this obsessive need lies…
How Loving Life Unconditionally Can Bring Inner Peace and Joy
It is not easy to stay positive when there is so much chaos around us. The economy, the stock market, and the political games seem to be going through some unexpected changes. When you feel overwhelmed by all the uncertainty, you have to remind yourself that you hold the power to redirect your attention toward the aspects of life that…
What Is the Best You Can Do When the World You Know Is Collapsing?
The world you know is collapsing. It is burning, whether you watch it, read about it, spiral over it, or not. But in your personal circle of influence, you can effect a transformation and contribute something that matters. Everything hurts right now, and it is scary. All we hear about is crisis, corruption, war, cruelty, injustice, and hurricanes, fires, earthquakes.…
How Can We Heal the Wounded Feminine By Saving Democracy?
I had to think long and hard before deciding to write this because I’m not much into politics, which is all about external power. I believe that we are all here to discover our true power: Awareness and Love. But the recent events in the U.S. government prompted me to do it; karma is always collective, so these issues affect…