Category Archives: Spirituality

March reading roundup

This month was an intense one as far as reading is concerned since I began studying and applying Mussar to my everyday life.  I read three books on that subject, slowly and carefully, underlining a bunch of passages and ideas … Continue reading

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As you do, so you become

Imagine opening your car’s gas cap and filling the car with a squirt bottle of sunscreen.  Or a roll of dimes.  Pickles anybody? Of course that’s not the fuel our cars were made to accept.  Our vehicles are machines that … Continue reading

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Is compassion an action or a feeling?

Have you ever been in a disagreement with someone and you just knew you were right? You knew that if the other person would only see things from your point of view, with your own history of thoughts, feelings, and … Continue reading

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How is humility connected to anger?

Last week I wrote about the concept of a personal spiritual curriculum.  One task of Mussar is coming to understand the many “soul traits” that make up every human being and how each of these inner qualities plays out in your personal life.  It … Continue reading

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What is your personal spiritual curriculum?

You have probably thought about what your purpose in life might be.  You have identified less-than-admirable traits that you want to work on (for me, one is being judgmental).  But have you ever thought that maybe you have your very own … Continue reading

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SoulSpacing the rest of your life

Here’s what’s going on with our group… we are in week 7 and we are almost all “behind schedule” and overwhelmed.  Doing such an enormous project (not one room but our entire home) so quickly (8 weeks!) may not have … Continue reading

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