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Tag Archives: Rumi
Learning How to Deal Better with the Full Intensity of Life by Becoming More Awake and Enlightened AND Conscientious (updated)
(This is an updated version of something I posted on Jan 7th of this year regarding how to become more awake and enlightened and conscientious. . . . https://realtruelove.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/becoming-more-awake-enlightened-and-conscientious/) We do not become enlightened by avoiding what is unpleasant and … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, James Hollis, Jung, Rilke, Rumi, The Dalai Lama, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Lessons", "Se7en", "The Panther", Conscience, Courage, Dalai Lama, Einstein, Hafiz, James Hollis, Jung, Lawrence Kolhberg, Martin Luther King Jr., Moral Courage, Pema Chödrön, personal growth, Rilke, Rumi, Walt Whitman, William James
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Are You “Living Music”? Are You Living Your Life Like “Living Music”?
The way love—and not fear—moves you, and moves through you, is your true destiny. When you don’t add fear to love’s force, your life unfolds unimpeded, and each day is a flowering of your deepest gifts. At work, with your … Continue reading
What Is “Love”?
“What is love?” (lowercase “l”) “What is Love?” This is one of the most fundamental and important questions for us each to ask ourselves if we are to truly grow and evolve as persons and transcend ourselves and our conditioning. … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Courage, Czeslaw Milosz, Dostoyevsky, Einstein, Gibran, Jack Gilbert, Kabir, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Rilke, Rumi, The Road Less Traveled, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Shadowlands", "The Four Loves", C.S. Lewis, Czeslaw Milosz, Dostoyevsky, Einstein, Gibran, Jack Gilbert, Kabir, personal growth, Rumi, Spirituality, What is Love?''
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Becoming More Awake, Enlightened, and Conscientious
Becoming More Awake, Enlightened, and Conscientious We do not become enlightened by avoiding what is unpleasant and difficult to look at and acknowledge about ourselves; rather we become enlightened by becoming more honest and aware of our own weaknesses and … Continue reading
Posted in Differentiation, Jung, Love, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Albert Einstein, Awakening, Carl Jung, Consciousness, Courage, Hafiz, James Hollis, Lawrence Kohlberg, Moral Courage, Morality, Personal development, Personal Development and Moral Development, Rumi, Shadow (psychology), What is love?
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What Is Real True Love? 