Finding Meaning

This episode is a celebration of those in our life that teach us authenticity

Spirituality is an unfolding of awareness and consciousness. Take a listen.

To be spiritual, to be human, to be human is to be spiritual

To be spiritual, to be human, to be human is to be spiritual. We have from time and memorial try to deny our humanity and call it spiritual. When in fact, it is the embracing our humanity that leads to enlightenment in my opinion.

Spirituality is a metamorphic happening!

In this episode, we look at practical spiritual disciplines of behavior that can lead us to finding our authenticity.

This is the second of three podcasts on the simplicity of spirituality

The spiritual journey is simplification of life. It's that simple.

This is my most succinct explanation of spirituality through the lens of Finding Meaning. Enjoy! Thanks for listening.

What is the meaning in Finding Meaning? Take a listen.

As we grow, spiritually, we discover that we don't have to control, we don't have to be the center of the universe. People are the way they are and we are the way we are. No judgment.

Human beings create monsters to identify with. Take a listen thanks!

Life is spiritual and spirituality is a journey. The question is what are we looking for and where are we looking?

Three years ago when I began this podcast, it was named the matrix has you. It is still true today that the matrix has us.

And this episode we're going to talk about the meaning of being a part of the universe. Expanding the idea of finding meaning to larger understandings

We live in a transactional world. We trade salvation for belief and belief for salvation. We trade ethics for power and power for ethics. Take a listen.

There are some ways in which we can tell that we are growing into our authenticity. There are some markers that we can see that allow us to understand. We are uncovering who we truly are.

Just as being kind, being loving, being generous is a part of our authenticity, too, is being a person who seeks and finds pleasure in healthy ways

This is a further exploration of how we truncate our spiritual growth through systems of belief

We are taught that what we believe, is actually what is real. When in fact, it is our experience of love, kindness and forgiveness that are the real.

How does one find their authenticity? By what mechanism is there to find ourselves? What has to happen for us to find our authenticity? What do we do when we start to find it?

We can effect real change in the world. But, only if we find our real and authentic self.

In the false reality, we can see predictable patterns of behavior learned overtime, that are destructive.

We are programmed by this world to seek the path of least resistance. We are programmed to seek the easy. Unfortunately, that is not the way this works.

The concepts of authentic spirituality are easy to grasp. Living authentic spirituality is difficult. Take a listen.

Once we understand that much, if not all of our anxiety is caused by the toxicity of the false reality, we can begin to find some inner peace take a listen, Thanks.

We buy into what other people think about us. We buy into what other people think about the world. We spend most of our life buying other peoples concepts. Take a listen. Thanks.

Here is my attempt to unpack the entirety of finding meaning in 18 minutes. Enjoy.

April 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.. In my spiritual journey, I learned from his writings in his speeches to seek understanding rather than judgment. Which is a very deep spiritual attribute. Take a list and thanks.

When we live out of a false sense of self, in a false reality. We become often delusional about our importance. That's the ego telling us that everything is our monkey and everything is our circus. Take a list. Thanks.

We live in the world where people say that they believe one thing and their actions do not line up with that belief. Take a listen to this difficult subject.

The false reality is incredibly easy to manipulate. Most of us do it every day. Take a listen. Thanks!

Never forget, my friends, no, two people in the world see reality the same way.

Today I look at the metaphor behind the story of Easter! Finding meaning is not not religiously affiliated nor will it ever be. But there are metaphors in the stories that we can draw from. Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, there's a deep truth, if we look.

As we look at how we process reality, we have to talk about the mechanisms that we have to put in place to help us recover, who we truly are. Three aspects of the mechanisms that we need to use are love, kindness, and awareness. Those three things are linked to how we produce, and how we discover our true self.

In this episode, we look at the conspiratorial way in which our brains perceive reality

Today is the end of our three part series on the things that keep us from ourselves. Beginning with our concepts of God, going through how we feel about ourselves. Take a listen thanks.

This is the second part of a three-part series on God and the barriers we construct through the concepts of God.

This is part one of a three-part podcast on ideas of how we understand the superior being, and the barriers we put in place to our authenticity

The false reality that we create and continue to create is a reality made out of fear and ignorance. The antidote, the cure, for the false reality is indeed love and kindness.

Today we celebrate the 15,000 listen of our three-year-old podcast Finding Meaning. Today I un-pack how I came to understand the theory of Finding Meaning, and an explanation of what it means to find meaning.

Have you ever thought to yourself? Why do I think like I think? It's a good question. We talk about it in this episode.

One of the great mistakes we make because we're not self-aware is, we believe that we can fix things through our spirituality. That is not the way spirituality works. Authentic spirituality is about growth and that's a very individual thing. Thanks guys take a listen.

We spend a lot of time, thinking that spirituality is somehow chasing down ideas about who God may or may not be or which religions, right. Or, taking pieces of each religion and constructing our own. When, in fact, self discovery, and the expression of your truest self is what spirituality is.

When we come into this world, we are handed a playbook. It's got all the prescribed plays in it that people tell us we need in life. From religion, to politics, to how to live as a family, to how to think as a human. The problem is, these playbooks are wrong. When we begin to discover our authentic self, we begin to discover the true playbook of love.

Love, kindness and awareness, the three essential aspects of finding authentic self

People are seeking identity. That is another way of saying people are trying to find meaning. Take a listen. Thanks.

Self reflection is a vital part of authentic spirituality. Self-awareness is a vital part of authentic spirituality. It takes both of those things to be able to see where we have gone wrong. Take a lesson. Thanks.

Here is a short podcast from the ocean where we are on vacation. It is about being connected to all things.

I want to talk today about who Jesus is, and what faith is ultimately through the lands of finding meaning. Thanks for listening.