Category: <span>Heart</span>

Western Meditation

We tend to think of meditation as an “eastern” practice while prayer is the more western thing. I was raised in a Christian church. In my late teens, I became fascinated by research on consciousness. …

Agape

On this blog, I have spoken of Love vs. love, the difference between the Love of God and emotional love. While emotional love is a reflection of the first, it is a pale one. Recently, …

Achieving Abundance

One of the things many people wish for in life is abundance. Having ones life needs, finances and livelihood well sufficient. Some people find abundance through simple consequence. What some call karma or past life …

The Dark Night

Recently during an off-line conversation, the subject of the “Dark Night of the Soul” came up. I touched on this subject once when talking about The Rapture. It is mainly a Christian idea although similar …

Pure Intention

Pure intention is best described as a wave or vector of intelligence. A clear  intent. As it moves into mind, we experience an idea or concept, an inspiration, a focus. Into emotions, a desire, wish …

Seer and Seen

In a discussion on Reframing Emotions, personal vs. impersonal perspectives arose. Seeing with the heart vs. seeing with the intellect. I’ve spoken of this a number of times, both on it’s role in the awakening …

Reframing Emotions

For many people, there are “good” emotions and “bad” emotions. Good emotions “make” us feel better, bad emotions “make” us feel worse. (“make” only because we identify with them as “mine”) As we’ve been discussing …

Success vs. Control

In a recent correspondence with a reader, I was asked how it is that some “spiritual” teachers talk of success, mastering the mind, and motivation, while others like Tom Stine speak of having absolutely no …

Fixing Negative Emotions

In a recent correspondence with one of the readers of the blog, I was asked how to change or fix negative emotions. They feel they had done the work but were still catching themselves responding …

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