Mateo Sol's Blog, page 15
May 4, 2022
5 Practices For Being Present (+ One Major Pitfall to Avoid)
Let’s be honest here, being present in the moment sounds good in theory … but in practice, we suck at it 99.9% of the time. How many times have you found yourself making all these fancy mental plans of “being as present as you possibly can” and imagining yourself as a Zen-master-to-be or advanced yogi...
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April 28, 2022
Spirituality vs Religion: 11 Differences (With Pros + Cons List)
To set things straight, I’m not in either the “religion is evil” or “spirituality is nonsense” groups. I’m that weird outlier who’s hanging out on the outskirts holding up a sign that says “BOTH are good and BOTH are bad folks.” As someone who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian faith (and kissed that goodbye...
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Spirituality vs Religion: 11 Differences (With Pros & Cons List)
To set things straight, I’m not in either the “religion is evil” or “spirituality is nonsense” groups. I’m that weird outlier who’s hanging out on the outskirts holding up a sign that says “BOTH are good and BOTH are bad folks.” As someone who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian faith (and kissed that goodbye...
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April 20, 2022
How to Find a Sense of Belonging When You’re Isolated
How do we find a sense of belonging in a world full of increasing loneliness due to social media, crumbling social and religious institutions that no longer meet our needs, and a society plagued by spontaneous pandemics that cause us to go into isolation? That’s the big kahuna of questions here. With research showing that...
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April 6, 2022
What is a Mystic? (12 Signs You’re One)
There is a certain mysterious, holy, and incandescent flame that burns at the center of every religion, spiritual path, and philosophy … and that is mysticism. From Buddhism and Hinduism to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Taoism (and more), mysticism is the golden thread that connects all these religions together, despite how different each path’s dogmas may...
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March 23, 2022
What is Non-Duality? (The Awakened Philosophy of “No-Self”)
All throughout this website and our work here on lonerwolf, we’ve spoken about the spiritual awakening process. We’ve gone into the endless facets of the spiritual journey. We’ve explored in-depth a huge variety of healing practices for the body, heart, mind, and soul. But there comes a point on everyone’s spiritual path when there is...
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What is Non-Duality? (The Pathless Path of “No-Self”)
All throughout this website and our work here on lonerwolf, we’ve spoken about the spiritual awakening process. We’ve gone into the endless facets of the spiritual journey. We’ve explored in-depth a huge variety of healing practices for the body, heart, mind, and soul. But there comes a point on everyone’s spiritual path when there is...
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February 17, 2022
Midlife Crisis: 12 Signs & the Spiritual Cause
On the surface of your life, everything is basically fine. Perhaps you have a stable job, are relatively successful, have a decent income, a few children and pets, a spouse, and you live in a good neighborhood. The only problem is that all this feels false. Yes, you love your kids and your partner. But...
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Midlife Crisis: 12 Signs & the Deeper Cause
On the surface of your life, everything is basically fine. Perhaps you have a stable job, are relatively successful, have a decent income, a few children and pets, a spouse, and you live in a good neighborhood. The only problem is that all this feels false. Yes, you love your kids and your partner. But...
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February 9, 2022
The New Age Movement is the ‘McSpirit’ of Spirituality
I am profoundly acquainted with the new age movement. As someone who has explored, and in many cases practiced (and sometimes promoted), the endless varieties of new age methodologies and philosophies out there, I’ve seen pretty much all of it. While yes, there’s a lot of undeniable beauty in the new age movement, there are...
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