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Dec 15, 2021

What is your Biggest Fear?

Everyone has fears. Fear is the highest state of consciousness for the instinctive mind. The instinctive mind, the conscious mind, is tied to our five senses and our physical body. As long as we have a physical body, as long as we live in our physical body, we are subject to the rules of it. The key is learning to manage this. The highest state of consciousness for the instinctive mind is fear a...

Sep 30, 2021 Insights on Life

The Transitory Nature of Life

A lot has been happening over the past few weeks that have consumed my awareness including testing positive for COVID. Even though I was vaccinated I got pretty sick. I could not help thinking during this time that this experience was an excellent reminder of the fragility of li
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Aug 25, 2021 Insights on Life

You do you, I’ll do me

In the years leading up to me becoming an ordained Hindu monk, I had so many people tell me how I should be living my life. They knew I was very spiritually inclined and in the year before becoming a monk, I made my intentions to be a monastic clear to people. It was fascinating
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Aug 18, 2021 Insights on Life

COVID: The Path Forward

The last 18-months have been challenging to say the least. For many, as a result of this pandemic, so much of life has changed - from work, income, lifestyle and more. For some, it has been devastating with the loss of loved ones, side effects of the virus and other severe reperc
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Aug 11, 2021 Insights on Life

Big Dog, Small Dog

I once observed a man walking a big Rottweiler dog on a sidewalk. As he passed along the fence of the front yard of a home, a small dog came running up from the front door of the home to the fence barking. This little furball threw its front paws on the chain-link fence that sep
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Aug 4, 2021 Insights on Life

Emotional Surfers

Do you get affected by other people’s emotions? Do other people’s emotions impact how you feel? Many people surf the wave of other people's emotions but emotional surfing is optional. The words that people say to you contain emotions. Sometimes they don’t contain much emotion a
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Jul 14, 2021 Insights on Life

Dealing with Disappointment

To expect to go through life without disappointment is delusionary. Disappointment is a part of life. It is a part of life until we start to shift our perspective on disappointment. Disappointment comes when our expectations are not met. When we have invested so much in something
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