Spiritual awakening is the highest possibility for a human life—and also its greatest challenge. To meet that challenge, we need a motivation powerful enough to move us beyond comfort and resistance, again and again. In this episode, Craig explores what he calls enlightened motivation—the deeper intention that fuels genuine transformation. He invites us to look beyond the wish for personal peace or relief and connect with the sacred impulse that calls us to awaken for the sake of the whole. T...
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Spiritual awakening is the highest possibility for a human life—and also its greatest challenge. To meet that challenge, we need a motivation powerful enough to move us beyond comfort and resistance, again and again. In this episode, Craig explores what he calls enlightened motivation—the deeper intention that fuels genuine transformation. He invites us to look beyond the wish for personal peace or relief and connect with the sacred impulse that calls us to awaken for the sake of the whole. T...
The Paradox of Practice: When Effort Becomes the Obstacle
Meditation Changes Everything
40 minutes
9 months ago
The Paradox of Practice: When Effort Becomes the Obstacle
“From one point of view, spiritual practice is always a postponement of awakening, because awakening is about embracing our true nature exactly as we are right now. Yet, from another point of view, if we don’t practice with intensity, if we don’t undertake a conscious effort to embrace the truth of our inherent freedom, then awakening is probably only going to ever show up in fleeting glimpses because the habit of denying our true nature is so strong.” —Craig Hamilton For so many of us...
Meditation Changes Everything
Spiritual awakening is the highest possibility for a human life—and also its greatest challenge. To meet that challenge, we need a motivation powerful enough to move us beyond comfort and resistance, again and again. In this episode, Craig explores what he calls enlightened motivation—the deeper intention that fuels genuine transformation. He invites us to look beyond the wish for personal peace or relief and connect with the sacred impulse that calls us to awaken for the sake of the whole. T...
