No we don’t. This is by and large a New-Age narcissistic notion that leads to the opposite of love. If we would have to love ourselves to love others, there would be no selfless love, altruistic love, transcendental love, unconditional love, pre-personal love, or love...
To surrender is an important spiritual practice. It means to fully accept and stay present with what arises moment to moment in your awareness. It does not mean to become passive, ignorant, a loser, or a victim. Quite the opposite! Surrendering and accepting by being...
You may have heard of people talking about the radical transformations they have undergone through meditation. Join us to share your experiences if you are trying to continue meditating, have trouble developing habits, and even start to doubt the reality of the...
In his book, The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle talks a lot about the pain body. To him, it represents old emotional pain that we all carry around inside of us and, when triggered, controls our thinking and behavior in negative aggressive or defensive ways. In our...
Rumi wrote, your task is not to seek love, but to remove all the blocks that prevent it. The same is true for all of your other desires, such as happiness, peace, success, and abundance. Join us to learn and practice to remove these blocks by transforming your mind...
Karma originated in Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, but is also used in the West to mean that good deeds will be rewarded with good results, and bad deeds with bad results. This idea is captured in the popular saying “What goes around comes around” and...