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The Most Profound Way To Surrender
Posted by: | CommentsWhen it feels like you been slapped by life, the most powerful prayer of surrender is to say “YES” (and really mean it), a honest and sincere YES, yes to this moment, yes to life, yes to Truth, however it may look. A YES is an acknowledgement and acceptance of the Truth that we can&... Continue reading here
The ego panics before a spiritual breakthrough (2/2)
Posted by: | CommentsThis is part two (part one can be read here: mariaerving.com/ego-panics-1) in this very long article about common concerns that most people experience in the process of spiritual awakening when it comes to the sense of losing control, when goals, dreams and plans vanishes, and our once so empo... Continue reading here
Is Spiritual Surrender a Gradual Process or a One-Time Event?
Posted by: | CommentsQ: I have been living in two worlds for 2,5 years now. It means half of the time I have felt great peace, happiness and joy and other half been mostly anxious or depressed. During that time I did only small changes in my everyday life (because I really didn’t know what to do). Now I’m f... Continue reading here
Stop And Smell The Flowers..
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s just as important to honor the high-energy days as it is to honor the low-energy days. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to take a day off and do nothing, speak with no one and just use that day to simply be and enjoy the stillness. For as long as I can remember I have had my ̶... Continue reading here
The ego panics before a spiritual breakthrough (Part 1/2)
Posted by: | CommentsHere follows some of the most common concerns that people are experiencing in the process of spiritual awakening. It’s very common to feel panic welling up inside when dissolution and confusion reigns. Grace can be fierce, but to know that it is (it’s only burning that which is no longe... Continue reading here
Breaking Free From Conditioning
Posted by: | CommentsDiscord for the ego is harmony on a higher level of spirit and something that upsets us and rattles our cages so to speak can be the thing that breaks the spell if we are open to it, while the things that makes us stand rigidly by our opinions and not open to hear others out, that’s what keeps... Continue reading here
God Will Give You The Right Goals and Plans
Posted by: | CommentsIn the process of spiritual awakening we are first being emptied of all our own goals and plans, even the sense of ambition ceases and we come to a place of complete flatness and we wonder what the hell happened; where is my zest for life, where’s the oomph I used to have?! This can be a ve... Continue reading here
Spirituality and Integrity go hand in hand
Posted by: | CommentsAs our spiritual development deepens and evolves not only does our intuition become stronger but it also lets us know immediately when something we do or say is out of alignment with Truth. It simply becomes harder to delude yourself and ignore your natural inclinations, and only when following our... Continue reading here
Stop monitoring and correcting your mind – don’t believe your thoughts!
Posted by: | CommentsThoughts arise in consciousness but they are not ‘created’ by us, we don’t chose them and create them, and they are not true. Everybody experiences thoughts, but after a shift in consciousness we come to realize that not a single one of the thoughts that arise are true and we also... Continue reading here
Truth is non-negotiable (Its promise is Love)
Posted by: | CommentsBeautifully ruthless in its ways and you can’t but completely fall in love with it! There’s a quote I like by Anthony de Mello: “Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable” It’s beyond description, and it’s totally and utterly unpredictable and in ... Continue reading here
Being Transparent is Freeing
Posted by: | CommentsTo me it’s freeing to be transparent. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t things I keep to myself, of course there are, I have clear boundaries and I only share if it feels appropriate. But to be transparent is to be transparent before God, that’s what it means. Not for other... Continue reading here
The Body Is a Great Barometer For Truth
Posted by: | CommentsQ: Sometimes my heart is filled with so much emotion I have trouble figuring out all the emotions that I am feeling at once. I find that sometimes the emotions come, I welcome them and the feelings are so intense that my body also reacts. For instance when I sit and find a place of calm being, I wi... Continue reading here
When Overwhelmed With Fear
Posted by: | CommentsFear is to be expected in the process of spiritual awakening, even crippling, terrorizing, paralyzing fear. Fear that keeps you up all night, when you’re tossing and turning in your bed, unable to sleep. Thoughts keep gnawing and you can’t seem to get off the emotional roller-coaster. He... Continue reading here
Facing challenges
Posted by: | CommentsSpiritual awakening doesn’t remove challenges from our lives, we will still have our humanness to live out, but the difference after an awakening is that arguments with life stops, there’s no more complaining going on, only a deep sense of peace even when things may be challenging and di... Continue reading here
How to talk to God
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes I get emails from people asking me how to invoke the angels or how to make God hear you, if I have technique to share with them, and things like that and so I thought I’d write an article about it. I don’t have that kind of relationship or perspective on God anymore, or th... Continue reading here
My first studio recording! (A gift to myself as I’m turning 40 next week)
Posted by: | CommentsI have always loved music and singing, and I used to have those huge green earphones from the seventies glued to my head when I was a child, probably listening to ABBA or something that my parents were into back then I grew up doing performances for my family and sang into those cassette recorders... Continue reading here
How To Know Whether An Action Is Coming From Ego Or From Spirit?
Posted by: | CommentsQ: I would like to hear a little more about discernment. What to look for in our hearts to know that we are going in the right direction. Before I found your website, I found this quote that resonated with me… “Nothing happens until something moves” by Albert Einstein. I guess my question is... Continue reading here
A New Way of Interacting is Being Born
Posted by: | CommentsIn the process of spiritual awakening there comes a time when the interest in other people vanishes and interacting with others comes to a stop, and we spend more and more time in solitude and aloneness (not loneliness). For the mind this can be very disturbing so to trust the process and not wor... Continue reading here
What To Do When Your Heart Feels Shut Down
Posted by: | CommentsI recently received an email from someone asking me what to do when the heart feels numb, and how to awaken the heart. Here are a few snippets from the email in order to get a feel of the context it was written in: “What to do when your heart feels numb? It is only numb when it comes to how I... Continue reading here
Awareness Is The Key – The Heart Knows The Way
Posted by: | CommentsThere are ultimately no mistakes, all that happens is meant to happen, and the so called mistakes we make is nothing but us not listening (or trusting) our intuition. Just look at the world! How we destroy the planet by our greedy behavior, it’s all coming from an ego based level of consciou... Continue reading here
