Finding Meaning

As Jesus said, we need to be in the world, but not of it. We have to find a healthy separation from the world in order to help the world find itself.

The description is in the title, my friends. In order to find meaning we need to let go, forgive and not judge. Hard stuff!

You will hear and I hope you have always heard one theme in these podcasts. That is first we live in a false reality created of our own ignorance and secondly, the way out of that reality is love.

What is the purpose of life? What is the goal of life? What is the goal of this podcast? What is the goal of spirituality? Here is my answer. Thanks

We live in a reality that we have constructed made up of winners and losers. This idea is not in line with love and authenticity.

One of the pitfalls of spirituality is that we can become convinced that we know everything. We do not! There is a vast reality and a vast mystery to who we are, that we must plumb.

Have you ever wondered why you meet people who are super kind, super loving and then they go to a religious community or believe in a political thought that is opposite of love and kindness? Take a listen.

As we grow, spiritually, we develop things like the capacity to love, the capacity for empathy, the capacity for compassion, the capacity for generosity. Another aspect of what we developed is our deep intuition. Knowing that we know. Take a listen thanks

We truly believe that because we believe it, it must be true. We often find out if that’s not true. We are creatures of belief, but our beliefs must be based in experience and provable, demonstrable, love!!!

Where does the human propensity to harm the other come from? Where does the violence we often legitimize come from? Where does the very worse of our behavior come from?

In order to fully understand what is real one must experience what is real. Otherwise, it’s a concept. One of the goals of the spiritual journey is to put ourselves in a place to experience the transcendent, so as to transcend the false reality we have created

This is a simplified down to the bare bones explanation of love and love is our hope

In the false reality, we have learned to determine our identity by comparing ourselves to others. Which intern leads to more false identity. Take a listen thanks

If love, kindness, generosity, and awareness is a part of what it means to be authentic then surely hope must be included

We are formed by how this world/humanity lives and behaves. And were ignorant for the most part that we are formed by the way of the world.

If true reality and authentic reality are about love and kindness. Then the false reality is built in dualism and separation.

Happy third anniversary to Finding Meaning. This is the episode where I talk about the seed of thought that brought Finding Meaning to fruition.

Our spiritual growth comes from knowing that we do not know everything. When we are exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking that reflect our authenticity, we’re often surprised. And that’s a good surprise.

We live in a world that teaches us to pretend. Pretend to be something we’re not, pretend to be people we are not. We learn that to get along in a false reality. Being authentic is being you, authentically you in every circumstance.

How often have we human beings been offered the truth of who we are? How often have we rejected that truth?

Today we begin a weeklong journey towards the third anniversary of our podcast Finding Meaning.

If we look closely, and if we pay attention, we can see outside of the falsely created reality that we live in.

One must experience the qualities of authenticity in order to share the qualities of authenticity. Take a listen thanks

We always have to remember that the foolishness, the stupidness, and the ignorance of this world is based in the manifestation of thinking. The question is, what’s at the basis of the thinking. When we figure that out we become less judgmental.

When we discover authentic spirituality, we discover that what we thought was spiritual wasn’t. Authentic spirituality is about the discovering of truest self. Not of lofty religious concepts, but of authenticity.

We live in a world where people have learned to be the people they are. As we grow spiritually we find ourselves outside of that. How do we live with that?

How do we change the world around us? We begin by changing ourselves.

As ancient philosophy says, the journey of 1000 miles begins with one step. It begins with one question! Finding our authentic self begins with one simple question. Take a listen.

To be authentic is to find freedom in our life

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?