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The Contemplative Life Blog
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The Contemplative Life is a website and blog devoted to exploring modern contemplative spirituality in all of its diverse forms. You can read beautiful poems and articles written by the author that will give you peace of mind.
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16h ago
You were sitting at the cornerAsking for some coins for daily breadI bowed my head and forced a smileThen I just walked by Later I asked myselfWhat did you do and what’s wrong in youWhat was more pressingMore important to do Are you the priest singing songsYet no cross and no heartTo love your neigbourAs ..read more
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3d ago
Summer 2015 was special for me. I had some kind of awakening. I had been reading The Untethered Soul by Michael S. Singer, probably for the second time. Slowly, yet also suddenly, I was overcome by a deep sense of joy. The joy was so real and rare, that I almost thought I had the Awakening.
What was it that created this deep and special joy, from within? It was the realization that I was not my thoughts. I had thoughts, but the thoughts were not me in themselves. To really see this with my inner eye was liberating. They joy sprang forth from the heart of a liberated man. And they joy was prof ..read more
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3d ago
Just as I had finished writing the second part I realised I couldn’t stop there. I am also sorry if some of you almost experienced me getting into to preaching, and maybe also preaching a “Christian” and exclusive message. That is not what I meant to do. At least not giving an exclusive message only for religious people or even Christians. What I am pointing to is a universal message that is possible to experience for a believer and an atheist alike. When I say atheist, I do believe so, but the person might not stay atheist for the rest of his/her life, if the Vastness are truly and deeply ex ..read more
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6d ago
As much as we need our ego, and it’s helpful till a certain extent that our ego is transformed and made more flexible, just as much we need to know that we are so much more than our ego. We cannot live and function in this world without our ego (so I am not proclaiming ego-death), but at the same time we cannot go on living meaningful lives in the second part of our lives, without some experience of this other than ego.
This otherness I speak of is the most beautiful thing in the wholeness of life. It is about a vastness of a self or Self, that goes far beyond our imagination. Our egos are a ..read more
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1w ago
It is time for some longer reflections now. Some thoughts on ego and self. I have been thinking that everything we do are connected to our egos in on way or the other, either we are doing our daily work, building friendships and parttaking in family- or social life. Even our spirituality is very much a part of our ego and our ego identity.
I have also been thinking, probably inspired by Carl Jung, the famous psychoanalyst, that our ego has different parts. In my layman-way-of-thinking I would separate the ego into 3 parts: the smaller ego, the bigger ego and the hidden ego. Let’s first talk a ..read more
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1w ago
Come away now
Take a step back
You have been out too long
Take a breather
Breathe deep and slowly
It is so easily forgotten
You shine so brightly always
To transform darkness to light
You need to remember
Who you are
With me
Within and without
Be now
My child
Eat and rest ..read more
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1w ago
Det var ein tid kor alt vart grått
Det vart eit slør av elde over det heile
Blikket blei sløra
Det var ein tyngde som la seg
Med tida blei det gråare og gråare
No kunne blikket knapt festast på noko
Augo slokna heilt
Frosta la seg som eit kvit teppe
Det blei til tida da ein ikkje kunne sjå
Ingenting opna hjartet
Ein tenkte – det er på det siste no
-Det er på tida og sleppe taket
Det var ikkje slik det skulle ende
Det var så tidleg og livet var ikkje på hell
Trass det ble kvelden lang
So blei det natt
Det mørker som kom skremde ein
Både syn og andre sansar hadde gjeve opp
Det var i den tida ei ..read more
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1w ago
Høyr
Høyr venen min
Eg kviskrar noko
Til deg
Høyrer du
Eg har kviskra det sia du sto opp
Høyr på meg no
Set deg ned
Eg ber deg
Du må høyre meg
No
Må du
Berre høyr
Eg kviskrar til deg
Eg sei det no
Høyrer du
EG ELSKAR DEG ..read more
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1w ago
When I saw it
Joy flood my life
Finally it was clear
I knew
Thought is thought
That is not
What I am
Then I drank
my cup ..read more
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1w ago
Looking at the starlit sky
I exclaimed, it must be God
Not necessarily so, you replied quickly
The starlit sky crashed down
My heart sank
I broke
It was a new beginning ..read more