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Karma, Meditation, Books, Awareness and More
Every once in a while I do an overview post of all the spiritual stuff I have put online in the past period. It turns out that the last time I did this was almost a year ago, so this post is long...
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Matthieu Ricard – compassion and altruism
The great Tibetan Buddhist Monk and philosopher Matthieu Ricard was in Amsterdam yesterday to talk about his new book – the Dutch translation of the French ‘Plaidoyer pour l’altruisme’. It will be...
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Blavatsky’s relevance in the 21st century
H.P. Blavatsky was my first spiritual love. As a 19-year-old I drank in her Key to Theosophy (*) and loved the idea of finding a common core between all religions, science and philosophy. I thought...
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Allowing yourself to just be with yourself – Jon Kabat-Zinn Quote
It takes a while to get comfortable with the richness of allowing yourself to just be with your own mind. It’s a little like meeting an old friend for the first time in years. There may be some...
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Best Women Spiritual Teachers
Gender is very much in the news these days. Feminism is losing its negative connotation and the internet is making it possible to empathize with girls and women all over the world fighting for basic...
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Women need to learn to break the rules!
The Buddha is said to have told off members of his sangha for not breaking enough rules (*). Why? Because it meant they weren’t taking enough risks. I think many women need really to take that advice...
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Patience with the spiritual teacher
A few weeks ago, I dropped out of a weekend teaching-retreat because the teacher wasn’t what I needed. She was telling students off, for not formulating their question very well and I had too much...
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Female spirituality, Mindfulness, Ultimate Questions, Books and more
On April 1st, hubpages, the site I was making half my online income on, banned me without an explanation. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an April fools joke. It took some getting used to, but since I...
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Compassion meditation – a free ebook
I have been regularly meditating on compassion, through the secular methods developed by Kristin Neff for about 6 months now. It does me a lot of good. Self-compassion meditation is a popular course...
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Why self-compassion isn’t selfish
As I said in my previous post, I have been meditating on self-compassion for the past six months or so. I have been pondering what makes it so effective and also – why it doesn’t make me more selfish,...
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Praying for the Middle East
CNN reports: Authorities in France and Belgium took people into custody Saturday in the aftermath of the worst violence in France since World War II, a series of terror attacks that killed more than...
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REALLY doable beginner yoga videos
Over the past year and a half I have done yoga regularly. So I am not a complete beginner in yoga. However, since I am not very flexible, only beginner-yoga poses work for me. To have a bit of variety,...
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Spiritual quizzes, books for kids, redesigns and more
It’s time for another update. I’m happy to report that my online income is starting to look up, which has helped me motivate myself to put stuff back online that got swamped under the rug last year. I...
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Breathing Space – short mindfulness exercise for when things get tough
The value of mindfulness is best felt when it helps us to deal with daily life and its stresses. This is exactly what the breathing space exercise aims to help us do: when things get tough, or you need...
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Emotion is what holds us back from true love?
Years ago someone asked me this on Squidoo. Since that platform no longer exists and I think the exchange may help some people, I’m reposting this here: Emotion is what holds us back from true love?...
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What is the goal of your spiritual path? – What’s your religious view of life?
Years ago I asked this question on one of my Squidoo pages. Since that platform no longer exists, and the answers are still interesting, I’m reposting them here. Note that all that’s in big letters was...
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Help! What is God’s Plan with My Life?
A reader wrote: I am 47, married, 2 teenage children, live in the suburbs, have a house and car and good job and all those great things that I am grateful for. One thing I have always struggled with...
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Christianity vs Islam. Violence vs Peace?
Donald Trump has put the crimes of Islam front line and center with many people again. And yes, Islam is in trouble. It’s meeting with modernity is not going well. The Middle East is in flames....
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Learning a language with Duolingo
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with learning languages. From the time I walked out of French class in primary school, to frustrating years of learning French and German in High School, all...
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My not so pretty bullet journal
Confession. My handwriting is not good. It was so bad in primary school that I had extra handwriting lessons. They did not help. It’s legible, these days. It’s not good and it is definitely not pretty....
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