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The Duality of Life

I used to keep two diaries, one about my normal everyday life (college, friends, relationships, career) and one about the spiritual and mystical life (higher influences, awakening and understandings about it). Last month, while writing in my everyday diary I ended up writing about a spiritual understanding. And then I understood that I cannot keep […]

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Living in Two Worlds

Birth on Earth as a human being is a blessing granted only to a chosen soul from above. Yet within this life lies both faith and a choice—the choice to return back to the Source from which our journey began millennia ago, or to continue moving forward in an infinite journey. At every stage of […]

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Being and its Disguises

There is a famous Greek paradox known as the Ship of Theseus. The Greek hero Theseus has a ship that he has sailed on the seas for many years. From time to time, a mast breaks and must be replaced. A worn sail is torn by a strong wind and wood in the stern has […]

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Experiences of Unity

Since I was a little child, I remember sensing a guiding inner force that I really wanted to define. Growing up, I am impressed by the information that the human entity is divided into three parts: the cellular body, the etheric soul, and the divine essence spirit. I need to find a mental thread to simultaneously connect all […]

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The Two Worlds of Essence and Personality

As a contemporary spiritual teacher assures us, essence is more real than personality. Dimensions of essence are one’s center of gravity[1], body type, and alchemy, the degree of refinement of the impressions[2] one takes in. Essence is the part in us that can grow into presence, or self-remembering. Alongside essence, each one of us has a […]

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Quotations on Living in Two Worlds

Quanawi: Perfect Man is the bridge, the mirror, without which nothing of the cosmos would receive the divine energy of joyful union, because of the lack of interpenetration.     Meister Eckhart: The eye with which I see God is the very eye with which God sees me.   Zen master Sokei-An: The Buddha said that there is […]

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On the Awakening of Meher Baba

To begin I should make it clear that Meher Baba considered himself an avatar, and that what I have to say here is partially an attempt to understand what that means. In simple terms, an avatar is a god who became a man, rather than a man who, through efforts in his life, evolves into […]

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Enlightenment

Enlightenment means the experience of your life has crossed the limitations of the physical, Tapping into a new dimension of wordless Divine Guidance, Too beautiful for words, moment to moment, So that though you use your mind, you are not it.  Though you live in the world, you are not it, or in other words, You […]

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Quotes on Illumination

The following quotes on illumination come from the Fourth Way and Sufi traditions, Indian, Chinese, and early Christian writers, among others. “Lumen de Lumine.” (Latin) “Light comes from Light.”) – Eusebius of Caesarea “Four thousand years before God created these bodies, He created the souls and kept them beside Himself and shed a light upon […]

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Light was here before the Light

“Heart, you cannot see me but you know when I am here. Never doubt it. The almost nothing. Sudden companion. Breathing together. Never doubt it is me.” Looking back over one’s journey on planet Earth, presence today recognises itself throughout one’s life. The soul, higher centers, the divinity within, whatever name one prefers to use, […]

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