Today's Spirituality Pulse
Charitable giving highlighted as a path to spiritual fulfillment
Manila Bulletin’s feature “When you give alms…” examines the role of almsgiving in personal growth, while a companion piece “Treasures in heaven” reinforces the theme across two outlets.
Overwhelm the Inner Critic
The post urges creators to "overwhelm the inner critic" by committing to an eight‑hour art sprint. The only requirement is finishing a new piece, regardless of quality, to shift focus from perfection to completion. By removing the pursuit of "great," the exercise aims to silence self‑judgment and build momentum. It frames the eight‑hour deadline as a tool for breaking creative paralysis.
Science Advances, yet Humanity Loses Its Natural Symbolism
This paragraph by Carl Jung, written in 1964, still hits hard: As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional...
Spiritual Distress Is a Clinical Reality in Brain Disease
A new paper in Neurology Clinical Practice argues that spiritual distress is a clinical reality for patients with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, dementia, and epilepsy. It proposes a biopsychosocial‑spiritual model and recommends the FICA framework to conduct a two‑minute...
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Turning Unbearable Loss Into Ground of Shared Life
The blog post highlights a conversation with members of the Parents Circle – Bereaved Families Forum, a joint Israeli‑Palestinian community of families who have lost loved ones in the conflict. Hosted in New York by American Friends of the Parents...
True Change Comes From Jesus, Not Legislation
Pastor Hal’s message today centered on meeting Jesus. His point was we are living in a broken world. Things are not good right now. But changing laws and changing rules will not make things better. Things will only improve when...
The Most Dangerous Lie in the Church
An evangelical writer condemns the church’s tendency to avoid confronting sin, labeling it a dangerous lie that prioritizes comfort over truth. He recounts personal experiences where fear of conflict led to spiritual neglect and even loss of life. The post...
Liberating the Experience of Impermanence
The article traces Buddhism’s evolving relationship with impermanence, contrasting early dualistic meditations that sought disillusionment and escape from the world with contemporary nondual approaches that embrace change as a path to liberation. Early practitioners meditated in charnel grounds to cultivate...
Embrace Your Unique God‑Given Design, Not Others' Lives
Stop trying to be someone else. God made you ACCORDING TO YOUR KIND. Your calling is unique. Your design is unique. Your assignment is unique. Are you trying to live someone else's life, or are you walking in YOUR unique design? The Life Audit 👇 shows...
Prayer Walks Transform Heart, Mind, and Life
Prayer walks and time with Jesus will transform your heart, mind and life. Psalm 146:8: "The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down". Let go and Let God. 🙏🙏
The Unbalanced Equation
The episode "The Unbalanced Equation" explores the internal conflict between the rational, architect-like part of ourselves that seeks order, planning, and control, and the intuitive, oceanic side that values feeling, connection, and flow. It argues that this dichotomy fuels modern...
Grieving a Living Parent Reveals the Loss of an Imagined Ideal.
Grieving the death of a parent who's still alive is realizing the person you needed never really existed.
Divine Replacement Reframes Pain, Revealing God's Love
God’s replacement always arrives so beautifully that it puts the pain into perspective. That’s how you know how much He loves you.
The Deep Code - 01: You’re Working on the Wrong Layer
The Deep Code course argues that most wellness tools operate only on the mind’s surface, leaving the deeper subconscious architecture untouched. It claims lasting personal transformation requires reshaping that invisible structure, which is shaped long before conscious intent. Drawing on...
Rediscover Human-Heartedness Through Watts' Take on Jen
How to recover your "human-heartedness" – Alan Watts on the Confucian concept of Jen https://t.co/s7Nq7fT7uD
Edward Abbey’s Bold Guide to Living and Dying
Edward Abbey died on this day in 1989, leaving us his daring directive for how to live and how to die https://t.co/VghiOJ7Ykw
Raving at the End of the World
Oliver Laxe’s film *Sirāt* follows a middle‑aged Spanish father’s desperate trek across the Moroccan desert to locate his missing daughter at an illegal rave. The movie, which blends pulsating electronic beats with stark desert landscapes, has earned nominations for Best...
Beauty Reveals an Ineffable Reality Beyond Words
Plato believed that beauty reflected an ultimate reality, which he called the World of Forms, a nonphysical dominion where true meaning resides. This experience cannot be described in clear terms. This unspoken knowledge falls into the mystical realm about which...
Choose Intuition Over Fear to Unlock Potential
Are you optimizing for Intuition or Fear? Not sure? Which inner voice are you following right now? The one nudging you toward your potential? Or the one warning you to play it safe? Drop a ❤️ if you’re allowing your intuition to guide you
The Invitational Identity
The article explores the "invitational nature of reality," arguing that every action and perception functions as an invitation—whether conscious or unconscious. Drawing on Buddhist teachings, biblical references, and personal anecdotes, the author highlights how we often hide behind defensive griefs,...
Surrender to Christ, Live Holy, Prepare for His Return
If this were my last tweet, I’d say this with everything in me: Surrender your life to Jesus Christ today. Read your Bible daily. Talk to God in prayer. Stay close to Jesus. Gather in community with other believers. Share your testimony and witness...
Purpose Through Responsibility Enables Enduring Resilience
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears … to an unfinished work will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence and will be able to bear almost any how.”...
More Instrumentalisation
The essay argues that modern culture increasingly treats nature, art, learning, and friendship as mere tools for utilitarian outcomes, stripping them of intrinsic value. It highlights how research on wellbeing often overstates activity‑specific benefits, reducing them to generic truths about...
Excluding Yourself in Mind Isolates You From Life
The more exclusive you make yourself in thought and emotion, the more excluded from Life you become. #SadhguruQuotes https://t.co/aw5lUQ3gNN
The Clearing Podcast Ad-Free: Elissa Altman
The Clearing Podcast released an ad‑free episode featuring author Elissa Altman, available to paid subscribers. Listeners who start or renew an annual subscription in March enter a prize draw for a signed copy of Altman's book, writing supplies, and branded...
I Fasted for Friendship During Ramadan and Lent. Here’s What I Learned.
Visiting Lahore at the start of Ramadan and Lent, Sikh executive Tarunjit Singh Butalia chose to fast not for religious duty but to stand in solidarity with his Muslim and Christian friends. He observed a day‑long Ramadan fast with a Muslim...
The Two Swords and the Eternal Soul
The essay, authored by retired mathematics professor John Emil Thomas Bernard, argues that Christianity’s belief in an immortal soul obliges believers to active, heroic virtue rather than passive piety. Historically, Christians embraced a dual‑sword model—spiritual warfare through prayer and sacraments,...
A Decade Later, I Finally Grasped My Youthful Quest
I was 18 years old walking down a South Carolina highway with a joint behind my ear and a bag of Franzia in my backpack. I was following a guy I barely knew to camp out on an island with...
‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ Is Actually Not Just About Death
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, originally titled “The Great Liberation by Hearing,” is a 14th‑century Buddhist text that outlines six intermediate states, or bardos, extending far beyond the moment of death. While early Western exposure came from Walter Evans‑Wentz’s...
The Boy of the Blue Pews
In "The Boy of the Blue Pews," the author reflects on growing up in a Baptist church where rows of blue pews symbolized a tight‑knit community that shaped his values, ethics, and sense of belonging. He describes how the congregation...
Perspective Shapes Reality: Choose Your View of Life
If you watch the movie Jaws backwards, it becomes a heart-warming story about a shark generously returning limbs to people with disabilities. A reminder that much of how we experience life depends on the perspective we choose. How do you choose to...
A Duty to Oneself
The essay interrogates whether genuine duties to oneself exist, contrasting Kantian claims of rational autonomy with sceptical views that self‑obligations merely serve personal happiness. It introduces African philosophical concepts—harmony (ubuntu) and vitality—as alternative foundations that treat self‑respect as a form...
How to Fight
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s "How to Fight" teaches that anger stems from entrenched neural pathways that can be reshaped through mindfulness. By pausing, breathing, and observing the emotion, individuals create new pathways toward compassion and forgiveness. The practice emphasizes...
Seeing God as Father: Hopeful Faith
I pray I always believe the entity that created everything on this earth is my Dad and I’ll get to see Him one day
Repeated Annihilation Reveals Our Indestructible Core
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." A Zen classic on transformation through those times when things fall apart: https://t.co/sUB3Q3tn1v
All Alone with Your Thoughts: Solipsism, Reality and the Lonely Universe
The post revisits solipsism, the philosophical claim that only one’s own mind can be known to exist, tracing its roots to Descartes’ famous “Cogito, ergo sum.” It argues that this ancient doubt resurfaces in today’s AI discourse, where the line...
Perspective Shapes Fate: The Farmer’s Lost Horse Lesson
The parable of “The Farmer and the Lost Horse” is well-known to those familiar with Taoism. It’s certainly a valuable reminder of the importance of our perspectives—of life, work, career, etc.—and it’s vividly recounted by @philosophyminis on Facebook: https://t.co/X8zXHYnhbw
Reality Is a Book; Experience Is Just a Sentence
Reality is a book, and experience is a sentence. From my wonderful conversation this week w/ @nireyal—> https://t.co/FCPUJH0VhL
Five Practical Ideas From Socrates
Donald J. Robertson distills Socrates’ ancient philosophy into five actionable ideas for modern professionals. He highlights the power of relentless questioning, the necessity of admitting ignorance, and the centrality of self‑knowledge in decision‑making. The piece also frames dialogue as a...
Barry Lopez Reveals Cure for Loneliness and Life’s Three Tenets
Barry Lopez on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life https://t.co/xiziNeKuc5
Space Perspective: Astronaut's Remedy for Global Despair
How to feel whole in a broken world – an astronaut's antidote to despair https://t.co/ag0U9xOxOx
Seeing Our World Differently
At a recent InsightLA gathering, participant Pablo Das explained how mindfulness can temper rumination and hyper‑vigilance that often follow trauma. He described mindfulness as an objective, non‑reactive awareness that lets individuals pause before reacting, creating space to evaluate thoughts, speech,...
Experiences Shape Identity More Than Immediate Enjoyment
I find this insightful and have been thinking about the same trend for a while. People do many things in life to “become more interesting” rather than for the direct experience or benefit. Many people have lost their sense of...
Your Resistance Mirrors Others' Refusal to Change
My guest today, David, is furious at his friend B because, despite his large investment of time and energy, she refuses to change. What more can he do? As he dives into this powerful Work, he uncovers the ways he...
Mirror, Mirror: How Christian Women Can Trade Vanity for Faithful Body Stewardship
Kate Horney’s latest post urges Christian women to replace body‑obsessed vanity with a biblical model of faithful stewardship. She argues that self‑worth tied to appearance creates spiritual bondage, while Scripture frames the body as a God‑given gift to serve others....
Embracing Uncertainty Is the Courage to Love Everything
George Saunders's disarmingly wonderful meditation on the courage of uncertainty, which is the courage to love the world: https://t.co/MmkRMjpy6q
Cosmic Perspective Turns Problems Trivial, Sparks Grand Aspirations
It's amazing what happens to my mind when I read about the universe. I love how it makes all of my problems seem trivial and elevates my aspirations to unimaginable things.
Arab Aramin, Robi Damelin, Liora Eilon, Mohamed Abu Jafar — Turning Unbearable Loss Into Ground of Shared Life
In this episode Krista Tippett sits with four members of the Parent Circle Bereaved Families Forum—Arab Aramin, Robi Damelin, Liora Eilon, and Mohamed Abu Jafar—who have lost loved ones to the Israeli‑Palestinian conflict and now work together for peace. Each...
Exploring Science, Consciousness, and Personal Values at UC Irvine
I look forward to talking in person on “What matters to me and why” at noon on March 31 at the campus of UC Irvine, Humanities Gateway 1030. There will be time for questions and answers. I will discuss science...
Gratitude Turns Joy Into Fulfillment, Not Empty Spending
Leave with this --> Enjoyment without gratitude is a coin spent twice—once in the taking, and again in the emptiness that follows.