Perhaps it’s just a function of being excited about spending the weekend with my kids, but I woke up this morning thinking about “waking up” as a metaphor for the spiritual journey. According to most mystical teachings, we human beings are asleep to our true nature, living instead in an illusory, thought-created world of our own imagining.
I’ve spent this past weekend teaching with and learning from my mentor and colleague, Dr. Ken Manning. One of the conversations we had stood out to me, because I recognized it to be completely true in my own experience:
There is a fundamental difference between “understanding” something intellectually and “realizing” it insightfully…..
I’ve been teaching in the UK this weekend and was looking through some of my old Huffington Post articles to see if there was anything in there worthy of recycling for this week’s tip. To my utter dismay, I came across an article I wrote the day after the killing of 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary school in December of 2012. According to the Guardian newspaper, there have been 933 mass shootings since that time…