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Suffering – the Central Problem

June 23, 2014 / Bruce Nygren / Wrestling with God

How do we find right relationship with our world – a planet filled with the dissonant chords of hatred and violence? All my life, I have been wrestling with this problem, and I still don’t have an answer. This central difficulty has been a driving force on my spiritual journey all my life. This […]

Whirling

June 4, 2014 / Bruce Nygren / Life Teaches Us

Dear friends, There are times when the mind is all awhirl…a million thoughts and pieces of thoughts and unfinished projects spinning and spinning to no clear avail. This is one of those times for me. I tried, in meditation, to struggle with this some, just to see if it might help to organize things a […]

The gift of Silence

May 9, 2014 / Bruce Nygren / The Nature of Being

One of the greatest gifts we can receive is that little voice inside which invites us to “just sit with me for a minute.” It can and does happen anytime, regardless of our outer circumstances. Sometimes, it’s a little “inconvenient.” Often, we say, “Okay, just a minute – let me finish this thing first,” letting […]

Who are we when we’re not wrong?

March 22, 2014 / Bruce Nygren / The Nature of Being

There are so many ways to see how we’re wrong. There are so many people everyday – even “spiritual” people telling us in very subtle ways how we’re doing it wrong. Listen carefully to the underlying messages. And, of course, we can be our own worst enemy in this regard. I’m finding that when I […]

ENTERING INTO THE UNKNOWN TOGETHER

March 3, 2014 / Bruce Nygren / The Nature of Being

One thing you won’t get in the next Spacious Presence course: Somebody “knowing something.” Rather, we will each bring our own light into the realm of the unknown. We will be getting comfortable with the discomfort of not knowing, because, when we honestly look at our life, we may find that we really don’t know […]

WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT?

February 26, 2013 / Bruce Nygren / Ask Us Anything!

There are so many people “waking up” these days, so many of them making themselves available in offerings on the web, in groups, in coaching sessions. Yes, some offerings are “purer” than others, some more or less direct and honest than others; but the Place from which these offerings arise is universally unsullied by ego […]