One of the symptoms of depression is the loss of interest in things that previously felt attractive to us – such as meeting friends or engaging in various forms of entertainment. The same also characterizes the process of spiritual transformation, of which depression is an inevitable part (see the article Nigredo). Self-knowledge is a deeply […]
“Your salvation comes not in the action of another, but in your own reaction.” Neale Donald Walsch Taking responsibility for our lives is the only place where true and deep changes begin. These are changes that we first implement within ourselves, and only then do we see them reflected in external circumstances. Until we realize—not […]
“Nothing can happen because meditation, God, and prayer are not matters of technique. You can learn the technique, but nothing will happen until the question is first heard, until it becomes a deep longing within you for which you can stake your life—until it becomes a matter of life and death, until it penetrates the […]
“We must begin with ourselves before we can understand what the end purpose of life is, and what all this means—the wars, the national antagonisms, the conflicts, and all this mess. It seems very easy, but it is actually extraordinarily difficult. To study ourselves, to see how our thoughts operate, we must be unusually observant. […]
The usual way of achieving our desires is by deciding what we want and then mobilizing our will to achieve it. However, there is another way—Pamela Kribbe calls it “the way of the heart,” and its most important elements are the energy of acceptance, unconditional love, and inner peace. When we walk this path, we […]
According to David Gordon, author of The Mindful Dreamer, you can use the following “markers for the phases of the journey”—both in your daily life and in your dreams. You will recognize that you are in the stage of the Calling when your energy fades and diminishes. This is the stage of autumn, when our […]
What Jung calls “the path of individuation,” Joseph Campbell calls “the mythical Hero’s Journey.” Although you may encounter different numbers of stages of this journey, most often they are four: “calling,” “journey,” “enlightenment,” and “return.” David Gordon compares this fourfold structure of the process of returning to our spiritual roots, in his book The Mindful […]
“Only choiceless awareness can lead to non-duality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love. If you love, you can do what you will. But if you begin by doing what you want, or doing what you do not want in obedience to some traditional system or ideas, ideals and […]
I share another very insightful and beautiful text from Osho on the subject of sadness and what it means to celebrate the wholeness of life, including the sadness in it. “Even about misery you can take an attitude of celebration. For example: you are sad – don’t get identified with sadness. Become a witness and […]
Below is a text by Osho that I like very much: “This is a beautiful method, it will be very useful for you. For example, if you are feeling very discontented, what to do? Patanjali [the most famous exponent of Yoga] says ponder on the opposite: if you are feeling discontented, contemplate on contentment: What […]
“Thoughts are like information data programmed into a computer, which are then registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in trying to erase it. Thought is the cause; experience is the effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you […]
“Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the […]
