Spirituality
A journey of self-discovery, connection, and meaning.
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Spirituality
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
(Adyashanti)
There’s something weird I increasingly encounter on the contemplative path. Which is: if you don’t accidentally fry your brain with meditation, at a certain point, the mind starts to guide you somewhere . The contemplative path reveals itself. And it seems like everyone’s path eventually goes to a similar place, although the trips are different.... See more
Sasha Chapin • Review: Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel
For me, most simply, contemplative spirituality is a fidelity to beholding the divine in all things. In the field, on the walk home, sitting under the oak tree that hugs my house. A sacred attention.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
How can you determine how to act under your own and society's best interests? Always strive to do the best.
If you’re unsure how to decide, ask yourself these questions:
- “Is what I am going to do moral, or is it immoral?”
Immoral actions are driven by egoistic motives. No one kills or steals, claiming to do good. Immorality always has a personal
... See moreGod, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.
https://adultchildren.org/literature/aca-serenity-prayer/
Many of us, in pursuit of the spiritual, become woefully neglectful of the physical.