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Tag Archives: awakening
Daily Teaching for Monday, April 8th
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Daily Teaching for Tuesday, January 22nd
There’s something about human beings that wants to believe that the spiritual journey is about some kind of secret, some special knowledge, some kind of insight that requires being in a different place or space – and the truth is … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, enlightenment, ordinary, salvation, special
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Daily Teaching for Wednesday, November 21st
Search within yourself for the topics you are uncomfortable discussing or pondering that others don’t find particularly disturbing or difficult. It is in those areas that you are stuck in the past and not able to bring to full awareness. … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, discomfort, discussions, past, present moment
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Daily Teaching for Monday, November 12th
”At different times in our lives we may get glimpses of something beyond our ordinary, conventional reality, touching a space that transforms our vision of who we are and what the world is. Just as the light of a single … Continue reading
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Unless you become like a little child…
Jesus frequently taught that the secret to entering the Kingdom of God – what we might also call happiness, enlightenment, awareness, or awakening – is to become as a little child. I have come to understand that these are among … Continue reading
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Tagged awakening, child-like, real world, reality, Truth
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Abandoning Spiritual Magical Thinking
We all know what it is. We stayed up all night in college drinking and the next morning prayed to God to do well on a test we didn’t study for. When the grade comes back, some people think they … Continue reading
Daily Teaching for Saturday, May 5th
Everything is grist for the spiritual mill. There are no insignificant aspects of life. Even the things we usually call “bad” or “difficult” – in fact, perhaps especially those things – contain lessons that lead to awakening.
When the Answers Don’t Work Anymore
All of us were raised with a set of beliefs we received from our parents or caregivers, and most of us reach a point where we begin to seriously question those beliefs – whether those beliefs are religious, spiritual, or … Continue reading










