Impatience is one of the principle obstacles that we face in life. Above all, impatience is a battle with ourselves. A constant striving against our lower nature and impulses which are constantly pulling us away from internal silence, peace, and deep ...
The Will To Continue Moving Forwards
Life is constantly applying pressure to human beings because we have the capacity to feel. Instead of wishing for an easy life, we need to learn how to deal with the range of human emotions effectively. Part of this entails developing the capacity to ...
Slipping Into Stillness
When we learn to bring our mind into alignment with itself, clarity is the result. We begin slipping into stillness because we are flowing with what we are. Our minds become single-pointed, our internal state still, because our thoughts and actions ...
Spiritual Awakening :: Integrating With Infinite Consciousness
Spiritual Awakening is both an event and a process, one which is intrinsically defined by a shift in awareness within the individual into consistent experiences of spirit, which can be classified essentially as 'mystical' experiences. This has ...
The Source of All Spiritual Knowledge
As an introduction to the spiritual and personal mastery section of this work, I would like to address an important question: where does spiritual knowledge come from? More specifically, where does this individual attain what he (at least) thinks is ...
Mental Toughness :: Cultivating An Indomitable Spirit
Mental toughness is something that I believe most people just do not understand, because they have rarely been in situations where they have had to cultivate it. Don't get me wrong, people are often in these situations, it's just that they do not ...
The Resolution of the Self
The Resolution of the Self takes place throughout the process of spiritual development as a gradual shift within the individual towards greater alignment with, experience of, and identification with Spirit, attained through successive levels of ...
A Consideration of Depth
What does depth truly mean? What does depth mean within the context of an art or discipline? Within the quality of our work and lives, in the realm of learning, personal development, and mastery? Furthermore, what does it require of us, and what are ...
The Learning Process: The Process of Everything
Everything that we do is a process. Moreover, in whatever we could hope to learn, create, or achieve, the process that we go through - from initial inspiration, through exploration, cultivation, progress and accumulation, amalgamation, refinement, ...
Spiritual Discipline :: Cultivating Spiritual Experience
Spiritual discipline is the process of engaging in specific spiritual practices on a daily basis, training, disciplining, and mastering ourselves for the purpose of regularly attaining spiritual experiences. This is how we cultivate a ...