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Sometimes the point of our spiritual struggle is not to find the right answer, but to learn the art of asking the right questions instead.

Let me explain.

The story goes that ages ago, a clever lawyer asked a wise Rabbi about the meaning of life, to which the Rabbi replied: "Life is about loving God, loving your neighbour, and loving yourself." The lawyer followed up with: "But who is my neighbour, really?"

Here is where it gets interesting.

Instead of answering,…

Practicing real world spirituality is almost always counter intuitive to our first instincts as humans.



Understanding our spiritual selves means being comfortable with the upside-down, inside-out world, as so beautifully articulated by Jesus in the Gospels.



We are to be citizens in a kingdom where the first will be last, where you have to give away in order to receive, and where you have to die if you want to live.



One wrong way round value we often…

The ancient Hebrew people described "to want" as "to see".

They also had an uncanny habit of connecting one's deepest desires with the ability to see certain things. Where we would say "I want that with my whole heart" they used to say "I see that with my whole eye". If your eye was bad, you desire was for evil, yet if your eye was good, you…