Enough Is Never Enough…So ‘Let Go, Let God’ As a case may be made that the age in which we live fosters addictive behaviour, knowing when to stop is not a skill easily at our disposal. Unfortunately ‘hitting bottom’ for most of us is the first STOP SIGN we encounter in our quest for sobriety—actual …
Keep The Change Many of us have heard of “The Road Not Taken,” (Robert Frost), the poem which ends, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” It might be argued that the spiritual path—FIVEFOLD PATH, in our case–, not …
TEETERING ON THE EDGE Is your glass half empty or half full? “Which is it,” Dorothy asks? I’m perplexed says Alice. Ask Anne (Frank); she undoubtedly knows. The sooner we accept the reality that for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction, the sooner truths will enter our consciousness, and most likely the …
MANAGING ADDICTIONS A Key to the Stairway to Heaven If it is true—and much evidence so indicates—that we humans all have addictions, IDENTIFYING them and then coming up with a ‘treatment’ plan, are good beginning steps. The severity and extent of Addiction A compared to Addiction B varies of course. But a clue is to …
FROM ILLUSION TO TRUE SELF: NETI, NETI—NOT THIS, NOT THAT In Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.” So the very beginning of the Old Testament throws down the gauntlet. We are made in the image of God What is this concept called, ‘God?’ “The Supreme Spirit is …
Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2-4) How might I do this? First, how about relegating INTELLECT to its proper place on our behavior scale—way near the bottom INTELLECT refers to the faculty of the human mind responsible for reasoning, …
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False expectations appearing real. What if there really were nothing to be afraid of? What if fear of failing, fear of success, fear of death, fear of pain…fear of anything and everything, were just parts of the Maya, the illusion, Natraj’s dance of life? Then what? First of all, most, if not all, of the …
