Spirituality for Living

If you do a thing and you do it right the first time, what must you learn? Really nothing. That is not defining of the human condition, but we make it a part of it. Mostly because as I have said before, we are taught to resist our problems. When all you have is a [...]

What is the difference between resistance and principles? Principles manifest as essences and they don’t block you. They empower you. To say I believe that love is the highest ideal. What does that prevent you from? Really nothing. It engages you more in life. It’s like saying food is good for you. Another principle, and [...]

Conditioning is a terrible thing to overcome and in identifying it we resist it. It was all we were taught to do… Not identifying the source, that primal world that we still come from. We didn’t arise by accident. No body does. Accidents are human but even that is not defining. Accidents are human but [...]

I find that just as in physics resistance plays a big part in spirituality as well. What we resist isn’t removed by our resistance and much of orthodox religious teaching seems to extol resistance, denial, asceticism. I suppose they can create a supportive context for spiritual growth but these days in most cultures there really [...]