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Principles and Methods for Highly Successful Spiritual Study
Your wish to learn is sacred. It has the full backing of the Universe. How can you make the most of this wish and help it grow? There are so many worthwhile things to know and this department brings many of them to your attention.
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Use, Misuse and Disuse of forms of Study
Idries Shah
Question: How can you explain the many forms in which people have attempted to teach? Since people believe in these forms, believe that they are true renditions of fact, they are enabled to reach truth through them. But is it that some are true and some are not, as the exponents of the organizations claim? If certain forms through which studies are carried out are true, are all the others false? . . . keep reading
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Choose Knowledge in Place of Media
Tom Russell
The quality of our inner world is an outcome of choices - tens of thousands of choices over the days, months and years that create the actual quality of our spiritual experience. One . . . keep reading
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Never Underestimate YOUR Own Resources
Dr. Paul Brunton
Nobody should overrate the help which a spiritual guide is able to give and underrate his own resources. The (spiritual) quest is a work whose continuity goes on for a whole lifetime, wher . . . keep reading
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Myth vs Fact: The Natural Alternation
Tom Russell
"The stretch of resistance following a realization is part of the healing process itself; it is not backsliding or a slipping away. Bright insights inevitably cause a temporary stirring in the false self." . . . keep reading
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The Power of Easy Receptivity
Tom Russell
Zen story from an anonymous author makes an invaluable point: A young boy traveled across Japan to a famous Zen school. When he arrived he was given an audience with the m . . . keep reading
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Break Free of the Rigid
Compiled by Tom Russell
One of the biggest obstacles on the spiritual path is the tendency for things to settle down -- for learning to stagnate. Fluidity is essential. Here are important things said about this principle. . . . keep reading
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Live Your Own Life
Vernon Howard
"I am caught between loyalty to my traditional beliefs and my urge to break out." "Do not feel guilty about leaving the old. You owe nothing to illusions. Do not permit other slaves to keep yo . . . keep reading
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Ten Candid Facts About Spiritual Groups
Idries Shah
1. He (a teacher) need not be physically present. You don't even have to know him. He doesn't have to have a white beard and sandals. In a sense, a teacher need not even be a person. I was on . . . keep reading
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Why Books Matter
Idries Shah
"You can get something from a book. That something may be so important as to lead you to the recognition of the real thing." . . . keep reading
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The Spiral of Authentic Spirituality
Tom Russell
One of the best analogies for the spiritual path is a spiral staircase. Often on the spiral we must confront things we thought were resolved. However, as we ascend we meet these . . . keep reading
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Human Community
Idries Shah
All human societies are based upon, and their continuity and growth are reinforced by, the use of hope, fear and repetition. Although this simple stru . . . keep reading
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