Tag: mindfulness

The Permission to Feel Our Own Bliss: Reclaiming what was never anyone’s to give

4 Nov 2025

We spend our lives waiting for permission to feel joy—opening and closing the gates of our own happiness at every sign of approval or rejection. But joy was never something to earn. It was always ours, flowing beneath the surface, waiting to be reclaimed by the only one who could ever unlock it: ourselves. … More The Permission to Feel Our Own Bliss: Reclaiming what was never anyone’s to give

Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

19 May 2025

To be serene isn’t about managing and manipulating your environment into peace, for most often you yourself are the element of chaos, and your attempts at bringing peace is the very cause of disturbance.
Alternatively, one can find serenity by a simple act of reframing the will, the wish, and the goal:
If I want perfection to be the goal and wish that it’s the case, then by reframing what is as the perfect state of things, then the goal is already achieved and my wish instantly fulfilled. And if I will what already is, then I’m doing as I wish, for my wish, too, is what already is.
The cause of suffering is to wish things to be otherwise than they are, and that’s insanity to wish something that has already appeared in a certain form to have appeared differently. … More Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

13 Dec 2024

The true, creative affirmation is not the affirmation of the tongue but the affirmation of action, for only through action can things be brought into existence. 
Just for today, I’ll visualize how my best version would be acting today, and I act as if I’m already established in that version. … More Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

Embrace Your Bliss; you don’t need permission for it

13 Nov 2024

Then take a deep breath and look away from the script into the now, and tell yourself “I give myself permission to experience my own bliss right now. It’s mine unconditionally and I don’t need any reason to tap into it.” Remember that you ended up here because you told yourself the exact opposite of this, and it worked! So, replace the script and brainwash yourself with it, and there’s no reason it won’t work. So, embrace your bliss; it’s all yours. … More Embrace Your Bliss; you don’t need permission for it

Stop Trying to be Spiritual: Stop Trying, and There it is

18 Sep 2024

The idea of possessing spiritual qualities implies a fallacy: the fallacy that you exist, and that you are capable of possessing anything. In fact, the very idea of independent existence is the source of all suffering and the subsequent desire to become spiritual. All this is God’s land, i.e. the land of Pure Presence, so let go of all that spiritual bullshit and try to mind your own business, which simply means: recognize that you are already present and it’s all alright. … More Stop Trying to be Spiritual: Stop Trying, and There it is

The Best Investment Tip: Mind Your Own Business

13 Sep 2024

To be a good investor is to mind my own business, to become present and responsive to what is mine to do at any given moment, and to remember that my or your thoughts and feelings are not my business either.  So, what can I do? To focus my attention on what  lies in the domain of my immediate action. And that’s all I have; that is the only thing that’s truly mine in this world and of which I have perfect control: my attention and the ability to navigate it. … More The Best Investment Tip: Mind Your Own Business

Of Fratricide, Love, & Prayer: Pleas of a Restless Heart

12 Aug 2024

To express and realize the desire of the heart, one must call the beloved into presence with one’s all being. All organs, subtle and gross, must call on the beloved: the heart by prayer, the tongue by speaking the truth, the eyes by seeing beauty, the ears by active listening, and the body by selfless service. When all of a man’s being calls on the same thing, that’s well-being and harmony; when there’s divergence and each organ wants something different, that’s disease. … More Of Fratricide, Love, & Prayer: Pleas of a Restless Heart

Exploring Authenticity: Perspectives from Jungian Psychology, Heideggerian Philosophy, and Sufism

21 Jun 2024

Rumi, a renowned Sufi poet, emphasized the importance of love and the heart in the quest for authenticity. For Sufis, the heart is the center of spiritual knowledge and wisdom. Authentic living involves purifying the heart, detaching from external identifications, and seeking a deeper connection with the divine. Divinity in its pure, metaphysical form is nothing but the living, eternal present, the indeterminate Being. … More Exploring Authenticity: Perspectives from Jungian Psychology, Heideggerian Philosophy, and Sufism

Practical Nonduality & The Art of Active Listening: A Meditation for Body and Soul

7 Nov 2023

In a world that often moves at breakneck speed, it’s easy to overlook the profound beauty in the act of simply listening. But what if I told you that active listening is not just a social skill but also a form of meditation that can transform our lives? And it’s not limited to conversations alone; … More Practical Nonduality & The Art of Active Listening: A Meditation for Body and Soul