Comments on: Spiritual Truth and Paradoxes: Expanding Your Mind Beyond Simplistic Ideas https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas Stay as awareness Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas.html#comment-53 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:33:17 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/01/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas/#comment-53 You're welcome. Thank you for your kind words, Gill. I am glad that my work can help support you as you do the good work of supporting others.

]]> By: Gill https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas.html#comment-55 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:41:13 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/01/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas/#comment-55 Hi, I just discovered you on YouTube. Thank you for this clarity. I am a Methodist preacher but I find more and more that I can only preach about love and acceptance of ourselves and others, of how everything IS…
Which I don't think conflicts in the least with what we are told Jesus preached.
I have let go of a lot of 'things I was taught'. I imagine the struggle NOT to struggle with ego may be at least lifelong but… it brings much joy, doesn't it. Bless you and your ministry.

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas.html#comment-442 Tue, 26 May 2020 15:48:54 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/01/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas/#comment-442 It is ultimately an illusion because all is one, and there is no separateness–no separate being to need to need a separate substance.

However, as I said in this post:

"But while hunger is ultimately illusory, it's a very real sensation in the body, and disregarding it as "ultimately" not real will cause a lot of suffering to someone."

So while we realize that we are not this singular entity and that we are inseparable from oneness, we also come into deeper appreciation of being separate beings who have to respect our needs for food, water, shelter, air, etc.

Thanks for the question.

]]> By: the one in two https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas.html#comment-462 Wed, 13 May 2020 23:01:35 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/05/01/spiritual-truth-and-paradoxes-expanding-your-mind-beyond-simplistic-ideas/#comment-462 in what way is hunger an illusion?

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