Alex Exarchos

Alex Exarchos
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There Is No Way to Break Your Covenant With the One and Only Truth — And You Have Tried Everything

What a Covenant with the One and Only Truth actually is — and why it can be neither signed nor broken I want to begin with the fear, because I know it from the inside. The fear that I have, somewhere along the way, broken faith with the thing I was looking for. That I […]

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The ‘True Self’ I Was Looking For — Until I Realised Who Was Doing the Looking

What I was looking for when I was looking for my true self For most of my adult life I was looking for my true self. I did not always call it that. Sometimes I called it my real life. Sometimes my actual calling. Sometimes the thing I was actually going for. The names changed.

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The Quiet Recognition Inside the ‘Midlife Crisis’

What ‘midlife crisis’ names — and what success without meaning is actually pointing to The phrase “midlife crisis” — to those who have heard it applied to themselves, or have started to suspect it applies — names something real. But what it names is rarely what is actually happening. The label arrives with all its

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Prodromos, the Forerunner: Read Me, Hear Me, Follow Me — But You Cannot Catch Me

What “Forerunner” names — and what kind of spiritual teacher this is For a long time I did not have a word for what I do. Teacher was wrong — it had more than what I could honestly hold. Coach was wrong — it pointed at a domain I am not in. Mentor was closer

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Every part of your life is real – only the idea that your life is broken into parts is unreal

You’ve organised your life carefully. There’s the work part, the relationship part, the health part, the inner life part. You tend to some of them. You defer the others. You tell yourself that once the significant ones are handled, you’ll get to the rest. But the rest doesn’t wait. It shows up — in the

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3 Important Things, which I Learned, Accepted and Realised Over the Past Few Months

Here are 3 important things, which I learned, accepted and realised over the past few months: 1. Reality is truly infinite (meaning: endless, unpredictable AND unrepeatable) and we try, in vain, to make sense out of it with a finite tool, our mind. In that sense, and accepting the truth of that statement, the best

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