Spirituality for Living

The hermit can be considered strongly individualistic, and they tend to develop serious aberrations as well unless they went into hermitage with a discipline, with a focus, a reason why.
Do Americans have this purpose for isolation? The wife beater likes to keep his activities very quiet, the child molester too, the hypocritical clergyman. But as [...]

In Bushido, murder meant killing outside of the boundaries of the order, a dishonourable killing. The acts of the Ninja were considered murder.
To kill another in battle is ok? Yes, except for the weak or the unprepared. Thus why Ninjas were seen as so dishonourable. They held to a different creed. A sect of monks [...]

Faith is a tricky concept, and sort of muddles with the other principle of trust. They aren’t identical. We know in this day and age that our senses can deceive us, yes? Yet what do we have to rely on but our senses? So knowing they deceive we still have to use them, don’t we?
Is [...]

The word promise is abused and overused. The only true promise is merely a recognition of what is already a spiritual reality and an affirmation of it.
You promise, and believe what you already know? Yes, and promises can be real.
Example; If you are traveling along a trail that is dependant on a bridge along its [...]

Chasing windmills is a strange pass time. Don Quixote had to have them be monsters, because he meant to revive mythical chivalry, dragon slaying. So where there were no dragons he made some. People do that when they adhere to creed without faith. The character had a loss of faith, and he sought to revive [...]

It’s hard to say much that’s absolute about Druid creed, because as part of their creed they were not absolutist thinkers. The culture the Druids would be most like is the Magi, and they would often later be called Magi in Latin records of them. They were rationalists, but not materialists.
Before the advent of empirical [...]

Sikhism is a religion that started at about the same time as the Protestant movement did in Catholicism. It takes influences both from Islam and Hinduism, and it’s original lineage was preserved by a short lineage of Gurus before it was encoded in their religious text.
Please forgive my lack of mastery of the language, but it [...]

Are dragons an entity akin to angels in the metaphysical world or a species of angel? They are not angels, but not beneath angels. In the beliefs that deal with dragons, there was always a path to meeting with dragons, and it was always seen as intense, challenging, dangerous, because it always involved confronting the [...]

Usually people sort of blend into the background noise going through the motions of spirituality, but some do stand out.
People tend to form gestalt constructs in my memory. I know that I have remembered someone when they fit one of those complexes, but how people identify themselves is not how I identify them anyway. It [...]