The painful and inevitable stop along the way It's inevitable. You've taken up your spiritual progression consciously. You are feeling "more." Maybe you feel love. Things are beginning to click. You're on your way to enlightened understanding. You're metaphorically leaving your body behind, floating towards a greater understanding of existence. And then bang! You hit something that stops you in your tracks. It's your spiritual ceiling. The Ceiling Your spiritual ceiling is the point where...

Ever-present, misidentified, and wholly unavoidable This will be a long post, and deservedly so. Love demands depth. We hear a lot about love in our existence, loving others, loving yourself. Love, love, love. Conditional love, unconditional love, romantic love, brotherly love, sisterly love, love for our pets. It almost seems as if it is unavoidable. But beneath all of these terms, a question lingers: What actually is love? What is this thing, this force that we continue to not-so-casually...

Service through a redefined existence Why have you taken an existence in this strange place, in this melding of material and immaterial worlds? Why are you here? Most spiritually aligned people would answer by saying, “I’m here to learn,” or “I’m here to experience.” And while those answers are fine, they fall short of a deeper truth. In death, when the choice to return was placed before me, my answer wasn’t about growth or experience. My answer was simply to serve: “Yes.” Yes, I will return....