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(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 4 minutes)
One of the most common questions I get asked is an extremely critical question:
How can I know if the "voice"/guidance that I'm hearing is the voice of my authentic self/higher self/Love/God/Holy Spirit/trusted soul guide etc.,
or that of the...
By Eldad Ben-Moshe (Reading Time: 2 minutes)
Hi there Better Lifers!
There's a story about an elder of the Cherokee tribe who was sitting with his grandson.
The grandson was troubled and came to his grandfather for advice.
So the elder told his grandson about a terrible battle...
By Eldad Ben-Moshe (Reading Time: 5 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
Here's a question that came in from David (I changed his name for privacy).
It's so common that I wanted to share it with everyone - for us to learn together.
And while it speaks of Judaism and A...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe )
When Helen Schucman and William (‘Bill’) Thetford, two professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, were having a hard time in their professional relationships, Bill awakened to the realization that ‘there must be another way.’
And...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 6 minutes)
Loved ones
How can coaching help? How do I help?
I've been asked this question a lot.
And I get it: "Coaching" is a very vague term.
There are different types of coaching (for example, executive, life, and business coaching) each...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 4 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
The most important elections of your life happen inside your head.
Every. Single. Moment.
I’m not saying that the elections for president/prime minister are not important. But the more important question, perhaps ...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 5 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
The most important day in the Jewish tradition is both beautiful and terrible.
It is also a great example of why I chose a spiritual path over a religious path -
and why I can never relate to any religious narrative...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 4 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
Oh, relationships…
(romantic and other)
They can be both the best and the hardest, can't they?
If you just said yes-
you’re not alone, as you’ll see below.
If you said no…...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 5 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
A Bedouin was walking with his son in the hot, unforgiving desert.
Their camel was all they had.
It was their hope for survival, too.
One day, after a long journey, they arrived in a small town.
All they...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 1 minute)
Hey there Better Lifers!
"Simply do this:
Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is;
all concepts you have learned about the world;
all images you hold about yourself.Empty your mind of everything it thinks is...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 3 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
In a mother’s womb were two twin babies.
The first baby asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other baby replied, “Of course.
There has to be...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe)
Hey there Better Lifers!
We all want a happier, better life.
Yet we often find that Buddha had a point (to say the least) when he said that life is full of suffering .
He did, however, also say why we suffer - as do other traditions.
But not too many...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 2 minutes)
Hey there Better Lifers!
We all want a happier, better life.
Consciously and unconsciously, we run away from pain and towards happiness.
But what is the key to happiness?
It seems that humans struggled with this question forever.
A Course...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 9 minutes)
The surprising thing that so many people get all wrong about A Course in Miracles.
So here’s a surprising question:
Can it be that A Course in Miracles doesn’t speak of miracles at all?
Maybe I should ask it this way:
...
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe Reading Time: 9 minutes)
Growing up, I had a problem with God.
The biblical God.
I was never religious, but growing up in a Jewish family in Israel,
it’s almost impossible not to be exposed to the bible (the old testament).
Amongst other reasons, we learn it at...