From the moment you are born, you are conditioned to see yourself as a separate individual. You are given a name, a gender label, a predominant role in the family, and specific guidelines to measure and direct your behavior. Later on, you continue to define yourself by your possessions, social roles, and achievements. Society reinforces ego consciousness by placing value…
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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…
Awakening to Oneness: Embracing Nonduality to Experience Peace & Love
In a world marked by division and conflict, the concept of oneness or nonduality offers a profound shift in perspective. It invites us to recognize the connectedness of all beings as a cosmic organism—the eternal Self we are, dreaming a dream of multiplicity. This can foster a sense of empathy, compassion, and harmony with ourselves and others. More importantly, embracing…
How Do You Know if You’re Acting From Intuition or Fear?
In the journey of self-discovery, our actions are shaped by the subtle interplay between intuition or insight and fear or resistance. Intuition connects us to our inner guidance while fear points at perceived threats, often leading to hesitation or impulsive action. But these forces can be easily confused because the ego-mind can deceive us to remain in control of our…
How Embracing Non-Action Leads to Spiritual Freedom
When navigating the external world, where we pursue our livelihoods and goals, the concept of non-action may seem impractical or even absurd. But for the earnest spiritual seeker, this notion is fundamental to reach the ultimate goal of Self-realization. Non-action is not about being idle or inert, which is utterly impossible, since we’re always doing something—or rather, something is always…
Why Spiritual Liberation Demands the Courage to Heal Your Past
Self-knowledge is the true purpose of our human experience, but it is not an easy endeavor. We often equate our identity with the sum of our memories and tend to allow the past to define us, particularly by painful or traumatic events. The mind is made of memories, so what we perceive as the present is a mental-emotional projection of…