My son summed it up in three words: God is nothing. He was right. God is NO Thing. Not an idea, a concept, a person, an object. God can only be experienced.
If they truly love and care for you, your happiness will be more important to them than your conformity to their preferences and expectations. Stop living for the approval of those whose primary interest is not your happiness and bliss. Recognize that they value your conformitymore than your happiness.That is not love or care;it […]
12 February 2024The ego needs success to thrive. The soul needs meaning. Richard Rohr These words did not teach me something new when I first encountered them. They confirmed something I had already discovered the hard way: the game is rigged. No quest, goal, or achievement ever fully delivers on its promise. Each success brings satisfaction — […]
14 April 2026You are not afraid. You experience fear.You are not sad. You experience sadness.You are not angry. You experience anger.You are not traumatised. You experience trauma.You are not ashamed. You experience shame. This is not said to minimise what you are going through. The fear is real. The sadness is real. The anger and trauma and […]
13 April 2026My son summed it up in three words: God is nothing.
— from “God Is Nothing”Time is an illusion — not that it is unreal, but that it is not what it appears to be. Eternity does not mean a very long time. It means timeless.
It is no mean feat to let go of the idea of yourself. Beneath the idea, something else waits. Not an emptiness. A fullness. A ground.
The old man has served his purpose. He does not serve me anymore. It is time to lay him down — the self that was built from fear and conditioning and the long habit of performing.
The unholy alliance of ego, body and mind makes us less than whole. Wholeness is not moral perfection — it is proper alignment. The spirit in its rightful place, leading.
If God is spirit, then God is beyond the reach of ego and the five senses. I cannot know God in the conventional way of knowing. The only true knowing of God is the experience of God unveiled in me as God.
This journey started with a strong sense of myself. What I found was a death sentence. The cross is always the path to resurrection.
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