I came across this quote today:
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation,
the other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller
It made me smile…
My yogateacher, Cristiaana at truth is your identity, had an event on New Years Eve with a speech and yoga class. All of us also got an affirmation, she had written different ones and put them in envelopes that we got at random. I got this affirmation:
The way is not in the sky,
The way is [...]
When I woke up today I had two words spinning in my head. The first one, ochoa, is Basque and means wolf. That does not ring any bell so I guess it was not important after all. The other word was lightworker which I had to look up. At Wikipedia it says that:
Lightworkers are people [...]
I have not yet read the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, have browsed it but did not connect with it. Today I came across A New Earth at Oprah’s Book Club. It says:
Now you can hold A New Earth in the palm of your hand. Download webcast videos, audio files or transcripts and [...]
Tom Stine has an interesting blog called Living from Consciousness which “has as its primary focus the never ending journey of awakening to our true nature as pure consciousness”. There are interesting posts and great discussions in the comment sections.
Tom wrote Past Lives Ain’t What They Used To Be, about past lives or reincarnation. I [...]
This is a short introduction to Zen and me. I have no formal Zen training, I have arrived at Zen along a different path. Much in Zen matches my own experiences which is why I use Zen as a reference.
There are Hardcore Zen and Zen Lite. Over at Taoism.net I found What is Zen? which [...]
I have read the book What is Zen? by Alan Watts. The book contains a selection of Alan’s talks and the four parts are about:
• A simple way, A difficult way
• Zen reconsidered
• Space
• Zen mind
I like the book, it is easy to read yet it makes you think and feel. My purpose with buying the book was to [...]
Over at Pick the Brain is an interesting post about Spirituality for Dummies. I fully agree that spirituality does not have to be religious.
Having spirituality simply means believing in something greater than yourself. It can be incredibly powerful to have a sense of spirituality in your life, and very often it can haul you through [...]
DailyOM today is about Every Step Is Forward – No Going Back.
There are times when we feel that we are spinning our wheels in the mud in terms of our spiritual progress. This can be especially true following a period of major growth in which we feel as if we’ve gained a lot of ground. [...]
The Perfect Holiday, this is part of DailyOM for today.
For many of us this time of year can stir up a host of mixed emotions. For example, we might feel a tinge of nostalgia for past holiday celebrations, when times were simpler, or a sense of being let down due to the unmet expectations we [...]