In Common Light
Rooted reflections on belonging and being
Category: Spirituality
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We value authenticity. If we are not authentic to ourselves, we cannot connect as well with others. When we are inauthentic, we usually are putting up some form of a facade. Some front. We are creating a false self; some imaginary other is what we are embodying. What is this imaginary other? Where does it…
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“Something seems different, everyone seems happier,” my friend said to me as we walked along the crowd of our senior class, back to our regularly scheduled school day. We had just had a pep rally on the football field, and we both had noticed the change of the general social atmosphere of our peers. We…
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Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967 said, “We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.” And yet here we are with massive wealth inequalities and rampant materialism. When we focus more on things, we focus less on people. When we focus more on things, we focus less on the…
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The opposite of love is not hate, but fear. When someone expresses an act of hate, it often is an expression of fear. In this post, I will: Fear Only Serves the Ego The Evolutionary Benefit of Fear Fear evolved as a survival mechanism to protect us from danger. Fear is “caused by particular patterns…
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We all understand that death is inevitable, that we are all bound to die one day, but we rarely utilize this fate as a driver, as a push, towards living a better life. Death is what gives life meaning, and embracing its fate allows us to live life more fully. In our culture, we do…
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We all have inner problems – whether this be loneliness, shame, a deep desire for love. We often avoid these feelings by manipulating the external world to match our preferences. From a spiritual perspective, does changing the external world in avoidance of these problems really help in the long term? Is there a different way?…
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As was the case for many other people during the lockdown from COVID-19, I had lots of extra time on my hands. I have always been intrigued by deep concepts, and so when Instagram boomed with awareness around mental health and tips to improve, I quickly immersed myself in self-help books. Looking back five years…
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