Why Is It So Difficult To Love Ourselves?

ross bishop Life Experiences, The Spiritual Path August 8, 2018November 20, 2020Christ, failure, free will, grace, inadequacy, lessons, love, pain, self-love, siffering, spirit realm, unworthiness 0 Comment

I think that the greatest conundrum we humans face is the conflict between who we really are and who we think we are. This conflict exists primarily on two levels - the human and the spiritual and I will address both. At the human level we are either unsure or are already convinced that we are unworthy. ThisRead more

The Mystery of Life

ross bishop The Ego, The Spiritual Path June 29, 2018November 12, 2020childhood wounding, feeling vulnerable, inner child, pain, past life, past lives, predestination, spiritual growth, unfinished areas of awareness 0 Comment

Perhaps you already know that there is a great deal more to life than to be born, have couple of kids, live 70+ years and then die. This is especially true if you consider the incredible complexity of everything in The Universe and how perfectly it all fits together. With that perspective, it is difficult to see lifeRead more

Some Spiritual Practices

Ross Bishop The Spiritual Path June 10, 2018June 14, 2018choose compassion, drama, pain, resentment, situations 0 Comment

There are a few effective practices that can make a great deal of difference in your life. The first is a technique that Krishnamurti taught. He maintained that this was his "secret to life." Krishnamurti looked at every situation and reminded himself that: IT DOESN'T MATTER! We make situations matter. Good lord, the time and energy we expendRead more

Compassion II

Ross Bishop Life Experiences, The Spiritual Path June 10, 2018November 20, 2020externals, hole in self, moving fast, pain, situations, wounded child 0 Comment

How full is your cup? If you are a typical Westerner, you will focus on what you don't have. Ask that question to someone living in the Third or Fourth world and they will focus on the things they do have - what's in their cup. Our lives in this culture are so built around "stuff" that we loseRead more

The Muse

Ross Bishop The Spiritual Path June 10, 2018muse, pain, poet, rejection, Sufi 0 Comment

For thousands of years creative people have acknowledged the inspiration and guidance of the Muse. These claims have been pooh-poohed by rationalists, yet, belief in divine influence persists. It is easy to blow off divine influence as superstition or delusion, but it is impossible to stand before the Pieta, view the Parthenon or read about David or AbrahamRead more