Spirituality for Living

Someone who is quite depressed is so because of how he is ‘thinking’ about the situation. He is in that. He is causing his distress and it is not the situation itself. What could be said further is to ask him how he feels when he isn’t thinking about what has him depressed. Unless his [...]

If your calling is the philosopher, you function on meaning and principles, and if a situation seems to have no principle you feel lost. Me, I function on rhythm or cycles, flow. I function on chaos. When the fire stops burning then I wonder what’s up.
Creating chaos? Ah no, I don’t need to create it, [...]

If your life seems repetitive, don’t sweat it. It’s just your soul trying to give you a message. If you are out of connection with your avocation, life will seem very stagnant. Fake. This applies to everyone, because for you it’s true. You aren’t in touch with your own reality, so how can you be [...]

You can see a political leader, or wealthy person, and not respect them when you see what is really there, even though convention in society is to respect this person. Is there virtue in being exhorted to extol an unhealthy parasitical relationship with authority? Extol/respect, venerate. People worship money and the money maker, and don’t [...]

I have heard people say that to be spiritual in a material world; all materialism must be rejected for the spiritualist needs nothing, but their spiritual essences. I believe to live a spiritual life in this materialistic world is the opportunity to break illusions and delve deeper into the understanding of what life becomes as [...]

The topic is indulgence. At first, I want to start by distinguishing between indulgence and compulsion. Compulsory behaviour is actually very common. A lot is even considered normal thus “common sense”, but it reflects a degeneration of human awareness on all fronts to my view. An abdication of personal responsibility, and an excuse to not reflect [...]

Does obligation have to be a suffering? No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t have to be a suffering, but it only ceases to be a suffering when we see that we chose that set of obligations, and recognize why we do. See ourselves in it.
But, but, but aren’t we “obliged“ to suffer?  Yes. They tell us [...]

What is waste, my friends?

A lost opportunity.
Stuff we don’t need?
Something squandered.
Excess.

All answers are valid because we all see it differently, and that is perhaps the key point. People often judge another with the lament, “What a waste”. I would ask, how do they know? Every choice of one thing involves an action that excludes another [...]

People get very hung up on “who they are”, and protest the unfairness of others not realizing who they are. For some people getting angry is actually quite functional, for others it isn’t at all. But I ask you, are we entitled to dictate an ego to others and insist they accept it? (Ego = [...]

I have laughed in intense horror. I have laughed in incredible shame and pain. I came to this point because in my youth I spent a great deal of time in tears. I came to grieve so deeply that I could not grieve any further. I could not see my grief as real.
I would not [...]

If you are afloat on a river in an inner tube, it’s an absolute certainty you will go down river. Yes, you might be able to get out in a rough spot. You might be able to make a huge painful effort and force your will on the situation, but is that necessary? And are [...]

The topic is renewal. Sounds nice doesn’t it? Renewal? To make new? Sounds refreshing, no?
People are terrified of it. It’s perhaps the state of being most avoided and treated like a plague. Nature/earth/God (what have you) has a process that is renewing. It’s also universal and people fear it. What renews a forest?
Fire. Yes, and winter. [...]