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With no loss, there is no love. Fewer things in mortal life hurt as much as the grief that comes from losing a loved one. To pontificate abo...

It's up to us. In the Western world, the term “sentient being” is not your every-day word.  We think in terms of human beings or other ...

If it is human to err and divine to forgive, what stands in the way of forgiveness? The knee-jerk answer is clearly the same answer that b...

Everyone suffers, nobody wants to, and the vast majority of The truth about suffering and change. humanity wonders “why.” The short, answer...

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Covered with the slim of injustice There appears to be a contradictory challenge in many spiritual pursuits. Picking and choosing often...

The realm of reality. Many, if not most, of the problems we encounter as humans are due to what we either don’t know or refuse to know....

Chuang Tzu's Dream of reality. The expression, “You are living in a dream world” is understood to mean you are out of touch with r...

Which way to go? “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not...

When all of the pieces fit together In a previous post:  Our overturned world ,  I shared Patañjali’s view of the five kleshas as be...