In Common Light
Rooted reflections on belonging and being
Category: Spirituality
Perspectives for a spiritual outlook on life
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When you hear the word beautiful, what comes to your mind? Maybe makeup or fashion, maybe a sunset or ocean scene. What if the true beauty is something that is already within us? What if true beauty is our consciousness — the awareness of being alive? Our Current Idea of Happiness and Fulfillment We tend…
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The more and more we let go during every day moments– such as when someone cuts us off in traffic — the more free we will feel internally. At a certain point, our psyche will want to clear out the bigger things — the bigger emotional wounds. For this post, I will be talking about…
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A lesson that really has worked for me, taught by Michael Singer in his book The Untethered Soul, is letting go. This process draws upon philosophies from Buddhism and Hinduism. Letting go is a subtle process that happens inward, and learning and practicing letting go allowed me to gain a sense of more inner freedom.…
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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. What is this imaginary other? Where do we get the guidelines, the instructions,…
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“Something seems different, everyone seems happier,” my friend said to me as we walked with our senior class from the football field to our lunch period. My friend and I both had noticed a change in the general social atmosphere after attending school online for the past year and a half. “I think what it…
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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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