I have recently read a powerful book by Adyashanti, and since then I start most of my meditations with the question, "What is the most important thing right now?" And I have found that it's a really powerful practice. He says: You could apply this concept
We could say that most people in the current modern world are almost obsessed with success, with the idea of success. There is so much written and said about "success" or "failure". But what is success or failure really in the world? Is there an absolute
By the learning of this world, when we think about sickness, we really tend to think about the body primarily. The body does this, it feels this, it feels that, and so on. And then we judge people by the state of their body. However: "Remember, sickness is separation
It is natural to feel guilt, demotivation, and anxiety when your actions do not align with your desires and goals. This is from the ego's harsh judgment of yourself. And there is the deeper belief that you need to do something, you need to achieve something to be
Recently I saw a post on Reddit which started something like: "The gaming industry is making me depressed." This immediately made me pause. No, no one or nothing is making you depressed. It is very important to realize that you are making yourself depressed. There is no one
There is a powerful quote in A Course in Miracles that is a big lesson to me. "Anger is never justified. ²Attack has no foundation. ³It is here escape from fear begins, and will be made complete. (ACIM, T-30.VI.1:1-3)" Now it is really
There is a lot of emphasis on the power of learning and spending time in learning and mastering many different skills in this world. And there's certainly so much to learn ever since we come out of the womb. We need to learn how to walk, we need
There is a popular book, I believe based on Stoic philosophy, called The Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. This title always makes me think because it highlights a really major misunderstanding, a major mistake, about how to approach the ego, what to do about the ego. The ego