Spiritual topics
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Overview
- Spirituality
- Religion
- Spirituality is true wealth
- Religion and spirituality are different
- Spiritual bypassing
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Spiritual practices
- Acknowledgement
- Acceptance
- Affirmations / Self talk
- Allowing
- Appreciation
- Being
- Caring
- Compassion
- Contemplate the fleetingness of life
- Contemplation
- Devotion
- Dedicate yourself to your spiritual path
- Do what you love
- Embrace all experience, remaining open to what is
- Explore the familiar with new eyes
- Gratitude
- Giving
- Go with the flow
- Intend the future but let go of attachment to results
- Embrace the gift of today
- Embrace your shadow
- Generosity
- Intention
- Law of attraction
- Kindness
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Prayer
- Put spiritual principles into daily practice
- Reflection
- Search for meaning in suffering
- Silence
- Stillness
- Self-acceptance
- Self-awareness
- Self-compassion
- Self-forgiveness
- Spiritual seeking
- Right action
- Right speech
- Savour life’s simple joys
- Surrender
- Surrender all sense of being a separate self and agent
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Spiritual values
- Awe
- Caring
- Generosity
- Goodness
- Compassion
- Connectedness
- Emptiness (sunyata)
- Forgiveness
- Hospitality
- Live and let live
- Love
- Oneness
- Patience
- Mystery
- Sacredness
- Wonder
- Service
- Virtue
- Humility
- Integrity
- Purity
- Right action
- Right speech
- Thoughtfulness
- Unity
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Spiritual narratives explaining the purpose of existence
- Possibilianism
- The purpose of spiritual narratives
- The power of myth
- The existence of cosmic meaning and purpose: fact or fiction?
- Life as a battle between good and evil
- Life as a test or trial
- Life as a school to grow a soul and evolve in consciousness
- Life as an arena for us to practice love and grow in love
- Life as an arena for us to discover and shine our inner light
- Life as a journey towards self-realisation (discovering who we really are)
- Life as a journey towards knowing and experiencing God
- Life as a journey towards attaining union with God
- Life is a struggle to escape the cycle of birth and death by attaining nirvana
- Life is about fulfilling the contract of our soul
- Life as a treasure hunt for truth
- Life as God playing hide and seek, losing Himself to find Himself
- Life as God experiencing through us
- Life as God’s experiential work of art ( A movie | A play | A dream | A symphony | A story | A dance | A painting | A tapestry )
- Life as God’s dream
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Living with awareness
- Awe
- Beauty
- Being
- Attention
- Awareness
- The power of awareness
- Live in the moment
- Living consciously
- Now is a priceless gift
- Observation
- Presence
- Rest in awareness
- Meditation is about deepening awareness
- Meditation
- Mindfulness
- Self-awareness
- Wonder
- Realise you can choose how to respond to events in your life
- Awareness increases choice
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Awakening and self-realisation
- Awakening
- Awaken to who you really are
- Spiritual seeking
- Beginner’s mind
- Enlightenment
- Illusion
- Awareness (consciousness) is the experiencer of all we experience
- God is our inner consciousness experiencing through us
- Self-realisation
- Knowing and experiencing God
- Experience is the litmus test for truth
- Know you are a sacred spirit
- The soul
- Transcending the ego
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Letting go
- Letting go
- Allowing
- Going with the flow
- Acceptance
- All experience passes
- Impermanence
- Contemplate the fleetingness of life
- Non-attachment
- Non-resistance
- Let go of emotions through mindfulness
- Let go of striving and end-goaling
- Let go of the need for certainty
- Let go of the need to always name and label
- Let go of the need to be right
- Let go of the need to compare
- Let go of the need to judge
- Let go of the need to judge things as good or bad
- Let go of the need to know and fully understand
- Let go of the story of yourself
- Let go of your preoccupation with the future
- Realise there are things you cannot control
- Realise this moment is perfect as it is
- Some things in life are within your control while others are not
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Consciousness and non duality
- Awareness
- Awareness is the true experiencer of all we experience
- Life is God experiencing through us
- Oneness
- The power of awareness
- The nature of awareness
- Rest in awareness, as awareness
- Consciousness
- Consciousness is like an aware screen
- Consciousness is like the light from a movie projector
- Consciousness, not matter, is the primary fabric of the world we experience
- All separation is an illusion
- Surrender all sense of being a separate self and agent
- God, our inner consciousness, is the creator of all experience
- God is our inner consciousness, experiencing through us
- Awareness is not just the witness of our experiences but the substance too
- Idealism: The theory that mind is the ultimate reality
- The only certainty is our own consciousness
- Panpsychism: The theory that all matter is conscious
- Spiritual enquiry into the nature of awareness
- Time and space exist only as appearances in consciousness
- The world is a reflection of our state of consciousness
- Panpsychism: the theory that all matter is conscious
- Death is an illusion. Consciousness does not die.
- Truth is an understanding that raises one’s level of consciousness
- The brain as a receiver and filter of consciousness
- The mind as a localised whirlpool in universal consciousness
- To solve our problems, we need to raise our level of consciousness
- The parallels between mysticism and physics
- In reality, the experiencer is not an entity. There is only all-pervading, indivisible awareness.
- Be an instrument for God to experience, express and create through
- Self-realisation
- Awaken to who you really are
- Enlightenment
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God
- Evidence for and against God
- Atheism
- Choose to believe in a benevolent universe
- God
- Metaphors for God
- List of metaphors for God
- God as consciousness
- Divine love
- Divine order
- There are many paths to God
- God is unlimited potentiality made actual
- God as oneness
- Knowing and experiencing God
- Union with God
- God as Universal Mind
- God is ultimate reality and absolute truth
- God is the ground of all being
- God as the universe or totality
- God is our inner consciousness, experiencing through us
- God as the source
- God is within us
- God is our inner being
- God is beyond all conception, understanding, definition or description
- God is a mystery
- Can an omnipotent God be reconciled with the existence of evil and suffering?
- We are created in God’s image – or are we?
- We create God in our own image
- We need to expand our conception of God beyond “God of the Gaps”
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Religion
- Metaphors for God
- The purpose of spiritual narratives
- Atheism
- Belief
- Faith
- Embrace only those truths that resonate within
- God
- Morality and ethics
- Religion
- Religion and spirituality are different
- Religion verse science
- Don’t drown your soul in ideology and dogma
- Death
- Heaven
- Hell
- Re-incarnation
- Karma
- Sin
- Evil
- Worship
- Zen
- Zen stories
- There are many paths to God
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The rewards of a spiritual life
- Calmness
- Combine outer effectiveness with inner tranquility
- Connectedness
- Contentment
- Creativity
- Discovery
- Effortlessness
- Equanimity
- Emotional intelligence
- Flow states
- Freedom
- Fulfilment
- Inner peace
- Intuition
- Inspiration
- Inner wisdom
- Self-realisation
- Self-awareness
- Self-knowledge
- Grace
- Harmony
- Harmony between body, mind and soul
- Healing
- Joy
- Resilience
- Serenity
- Spaciousness
- Synchronicity
- Tranquility
- Transcendence
- Transcending suffering
- Well-being
- Wholeheartedness
