When it comes to psychological and spiritual pain, it appears in many different forms. Anger, fear, depression, loneliness, regret, guilt, unrequited love… the list goes on and on. When we’re overcome by these emotions, we’re usually quick to blame someone or something for the pain we feel. But does that ever help? It seems the pain just gets worse. We […]
Most of us believe that achieving success is an enviable thing. And yet, when we hear of the experiences of people who have attained what we think of as success, they often tell us it just isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, no matter what they get, it’s never enough. They always feel compelled to run […]
Have you ever seen time-lapse photography of a budding seed? It reveals something very interesting about the nature of growth. The new plant doesn’t break out of the seed husk and then grow toward the light in one continuous motion. Rather there are starts and stops and even setbacks all along the way. There are forward steps and backward steps, […]
The key to leaving behind our self-created and self-limited world is to be found in our willingness to keep going even when it “feels” like something bad is happening to us or that we’re going “nowhere fast.” The idea of quitting or turning back is the unfortunate option that occurs only when we have an incomplete understanding of any given […]
Easter Sunday is coming up very soon. This is the holiest day of the Christian calendar. But its basic tenet is not just a Christian idea. Far from it. Every true religion has an observance or belief that, like Easter, recognizes the greatest mystery of all: Rebirth. Here at Life of Learning Foundation, OneJourney founder Guy Finley often speaks of […]
In recent years we’ve seen scientists solve amazing mysteries about how our bodies work, about new modes of energy, about new ways to communicate with one another, about the origins of the cosmos itself. And yet, very little has advanced in how we understand ourselves. And so, if anything, humans have gone more “off the rails” in terms of anger, […]
There are a host of unusual relationships that appear in the heart of the aspirant where things that seem to be divided aren’t really divided at all. Can you have a need for water if water didn’t exist? If I need water, if I need to drink, it’s axiomatic that something satisfies that thirst, otherwise I wouldn’t be thirsty. The […]
Depending on how old we each are, we’ve all felt, so many times, the promise of peace in the world… When this war is over. When this new political party takes charge. When this scientific discovery changes everything. And yet here we are in January, 2024, 24 years into the new millennium, and in spite of all the wars we’ve […]
There was once a hit Broadway show with a title many people could relate to. It was, “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!” When life seems overwhelming that’s exactly what we want to do, isn’t it? We just want to get away from everything that frustrates us, frightens us, makes us feel powerless. But that wish is the […]
It’s hard to read the news these days. With so much strife and antagonism being reported on every page or webpage, it seems as though war and violence have broken out across the planet. People of good will feel helpless in the face of such global forces. Many wish to know how flaring tempers can be cooled down and whether […]
