Spiritual Endeavour: Dark Night of the Soul – 5
[Exploring Life] A dark night of the soul is an invitation to our own renaissance. The curse of seemingly inescapable psychological and spiritual burdens is a threshold that immerses us in a dark unrelenting entanglement with our own spiritual-renewal. It is deep within the midst of our most intense struggles in life that we are [...]
Spiritual Quality: Equanimity
We find ourselves today in the midst of an economic storm born in the shadowy underworld of corporate greed, want, superficiality, and narcissism that threatens the sustainability of our immediate lifestyle. And we stand together in the midst of an approaching environmental tsunami in which our attempts to own and commoditize the natural world will [...]
Spiritual Endeavour: Dark Night of the Soul – 4
[Exploring Life] When we receive an education we are placed into a system of prerequisites that have been determined by an amorphous agency. By definition, education is an experience that is predetermined, imposed, rigidly structured, and bound to a self-reinforcing system of evaluation. The essence of the education system originates in automation, mechanization, generalization, and [...]
Contemplative Thoughts
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
Spiritual Quality: Presence – The Embrace of Life
[Exploring Life] An external presence means that we share some kind of proximity with other living force in our world. This kind of presence may be visible or invisible, readily perceptible to our senses or it may be intuited as a felt-presence that does not present itself as everyday sensation. The invisible tends to confound [...]
Spiritual Journey: The Alchemist
[Exploring Life] Fatalism is an insipid belief that the general order of things, including the experiences we have in life, are predetermined and that we are powerless to alter our destiny. Self-determination is an ostentatious belief that we have the power to make decisions without the interference of outside influences. There are even those that [...]
Spiritual Quality: Presence – Internal Rhythms
[Exploring Life] The spiritual dimension is the space in which we journey into our most divine essence, as well as our darkest shadow. A spiritual quality is an intuitive source of inspiration we inhabit in order to orient ourselves to the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. The word presence embraces an essential spiritual quality and creative [...]