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The Spirit’s Sensual Doors

I was about to scribble a post about the importance of sensing life with our bodies rather than our minds. I decided to first pop over to a blog or two. At Songs of Unforgetting,I found a post called “When Matter Matters”about a similar subject. Synchronicity.

For the past 6 weeks I’ve been [...]

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Thinking Spiritually Outside the Self

One of the most difficult aspects of spiritual thinking,(thinking which reaches beyond the small,petty self) is grasping how that self is an illusion.

The real Self,with a capital “S”,is the whole world,for our skin is only a thin membrane connecting our inner “self”with our outer “Self”. Yet most of [...]

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I think,therefore…I think. I think?

It sounds comical if you say it enough times,like the sound of a bag of beans or rice plopping on the counter:“Think!”.

In Buddhism or Yoga it may be called any number of things:“monkey mind”or “chattering mind”. I have a more personal pet name:“mental diarrhea”. It’s the constant psycho babble [...]

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The Physicality of Spirit

I was riding one of those advanced elliptical running machines at the gym yesterday when it dawned on me. As I strove find perfect balance within the complicated motions of the exercise,at one point I found the right rhythm and released into it and suddenly it became effortless. All parts of my body were [...]

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Garden of Growth,II

A revised version of an earlier poem [...]

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