Spirituality for Living

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 [...]

Money is the biggest belief of all.  Money is the biggest religion. In the almighty bill or coin we trust.  Even before the Zeitgeist movement was founded, I recall hearing that we had the technology to terraform barren desert land, but no one chose to do it. It would make land less scarce, and make the [...]

Zionism is both political and spiritual. It has been going on for a long time, and it even translated into other cultures.  In America it became manifest destiny.
Zionism is ultimately the idea that God has promised land, and that it’s ones sacred duty to either take it or preserve it. The belief in an otherworldly heaven [...]

The Gnostic divinities are in the realm of the emanation. In the realm of self knowledge. Gnosis is a quality of the individual emanation, and not a body of knowledge that is fixed and must be accepted. Mandean and Manichean Gnosticism even reached China.
To know yourself is to know God, i.e. all divinities? Yes, exactly.
For [...]

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 [...]

When you succeed at a goal even though it didn’t go like you planned, do you gain as much as if everything goes according to plan? Do you learn anything from your successes?
You learn more from disasters, and your originating spirit doesn’t actually care about anything other than the goal or the finished product. The [...]

Tell me friends, how do you come about your obligations? Onerous ones? No, all.

Good question. Training from parents.
Yes, parents for me too, and husband.
Being born.
A lot is programmed for me.
Voluntarily. Then you are well set, but is all your voluntary behaviour self chosen?

Are there many ways to define obligation? As many as there are people [...]

There is a simple way to know when you are centered, balanced. It’s so simple as to be almost always overlooked.
What is love?
Love is like breath, you need it to live. Exactly, but let’s be more blunt. Love is the willingness to be in the presence of anything exactly as it is, but we get [...]

The topic is play. Plato has a saying and I’ll paraphrase. He said you can learn more about a person from an hour of play than a year of conversation. What do you think of this friends?
Yeahhh, get me in a game of monopoly and you’ll find out! Part of why play is [...]