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Relax! Your Journey is in Good Hands
Next week I’m going to begin a lesson “The Clutch of Death.” I’ll talk about how when we try and hang on to happiness, try to clutch the things we desire, while we may attain fleeting moments of pleasure, true and abiding happiness will elude us.
As preamble to that lesson, today I encourage you to relax on the journey. Striving, straining, and fretting about our soul’s advancement on the journey yields very little return. Peace, hope, and trust, on the other hand, yield a tidy return.
Desire… that’s the primary driver of the spiritual life. Desire God, desire truth, desire virtue, desire peace. Desire spiritual life, and then simply pay attention. God… The Universe, Ultimacy, will all conspire to take us where our soul yearns to go. Continue reading
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Relaxing Our Sense Desires
Last week we saw how the ancient spiritual practice of silence challenges the tyranny of desire. This week we look at how we can fare well when we challenge the powerful desires of our senses. Continue reading
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Tagged ancient spiritual paths, desire, growth, inner rest, peace, surrender
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The Discipline of NOT Talking
Extended silence makes us uncomfortable for a lot of reasons, several of which we examine in this lesson. However, the ancients touted it as one of the classical spiritual disciplines, designed to awaken us to the Divine Life and Light inside each of us. Have a listen! Continue reading
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Tagged ancient spiritual paths, destiny, growth, inner rest, inner voice, loneliness, peace, silence, virtue
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