Short stories today

  Spirituality and its components Energy and glowing: Energy is all about mastering yourself. It’s about mestering the energy within yourself and being able to read other people’s. Increasing your energy allows you to become more pure and glowing. There is also a component of getting your attention under control within mastering your energy. What you put your attention into grows – both the positive and the negative. Fear grows when you focus on it too much, and so does determination. So get your attention under control and you will decide what within you grows and what doesn’t.   Connection - knowing God and yourself There are two types of connection I’m talking about: the connection to yourself and to something bigger. What does “connection” means? It means building rapport, being in tune with something and having the sense of proximity towards that which you develop connection with. Building connection with yourself is both being closer to yourself and knowin...

    I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief en...

  It is said that the man who invented the word “God” knew him directly. He had spent years thinking deeply about life without understanding its essence, until one day he walked outside his house; smelled the flowers, saw the horizon and heard a bird signing. Only then was he able to understand and create the word God. However he could not explain what he meant to his neighbours; and younger generations were stuck with the task of defining the word. Yet all they managed is to pile up ideas. Now we live like if, with those ideas, we understood God.