You have spent years trying to fix someone you have never once found. You have been looking for yourself for years. Not in a mirror, and not in a bookshop. Inside. You have gone about it seriously. The books. The mornings sitting still. The people paid to listen. The notebooks you still have. The search
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Both voices in your inner conflict sound exactly like you You already know the argument by heart. One voice says, “I should be over this by now.” Another answers, “I will never get over this.” The first voice is impatient. The second is despairing. Both speak in the first person. Each sounds entirely familiar. This
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A single fact has survived every doubt I have had I have doubted almost everything at some point in my life. Most of it deserved the doubt. My opinions shifted, my teachers came and went, and my certainties about myself dissolved one by one. Some faded slowly, and some went all at once. Most people
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Why dreaming with your eyes wide open has only one way in — and why that way is the opposite of everything you would normally do Notice, for a moment, how much of your day you do not actually remember. The commute that happened while you were elsewhere. The meal eaten while you answered messages.
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Hey, you. Come over here for a moment. I know it’s not been easy for you. (Someone would say: “it wasn’t supposed to be easy”, but let’s not go there now, because – even if that’s true in a way – this is typically something that doesn’t help the one who has suffered for so
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Dear friend and spiritual seeker, In the previous communication to this email series, I hope I managed to – once again – establish how, essentially, your feeling of being in control of things is – almost entirely – an illusion. Here, however, I should probably clarify that up to a certain point (or to be more precise,
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Dear friend and spiritual seeker, I would like to assume that, by now, you are quite advanced in your spiritual awakening endeavour, so as to be quite familiar with what I am about to cover here. This has to do with looking for the answer to an extremely serious and critical question: What are the things in
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Frankness – whenever needed, in the bluntest form possible – is second nature to the devoted spiritual awakening guide. This, of course, has to be the case – no way around it – for the genuine self-realisation seeker as well. This being clarified, let me then assure you that parts 1 and 2 to this communication miniseries
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In Part 1 of this post series, we started diving into some really deep waters, purportedly going even beyond the One and Only Truth. I suggest you read said post once again (or for the first time), before we continue. Now, then… … what is of primary interest to us here, out of the unique Lacanian
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With this, we go into the deepest and most treacherous waters imaginable. (Yes, even considering our standards). You know (or, rather, you don’t and cannot know)… … there are things extending even beyond the One and Only Truth. You will probably be asking: “How can that be?”. Well… … did you know that one of the
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I maintain that your life’s single, biggest competitive advantage is your imagination. Not your special skills, competencies and / or (fields or areas of) knowledge. Not your resources, be they tangible or intangible. No, it’s none of these things. Your true edge lies rather in your ability to translate all this unique capacity of yours
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It is a strange thing, life is. No matter what is happening on the surface, regardless of the occasional events and circumstances you find yourself in the midst of, you are the one who chooses how to live it. Meaning: how to interpret what is happening, how to feel about it, and if and how
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