The word yoga means union. You are life, and when ‘yoga’, you know this, you are in the experience of this. Yoga is living as your true self. You don’t have to follow anybody’s view including Patanjali’s. You are free to create your life as you desire. You are free to...
Is basic meditation all it’s cracked up to be? Seriously, what’s the evidence?
You can explore three ways for the answer. One is, you can simply observe contemporary enlightened people keenly, and discern/see the difference with your own inner and outer senses. 4 examples I can immediately count are: Lincoln Gergar, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Osho,...
How can someone kickstart their writing productivity?
Live your life with awareness in every moment as best as you can. The more you be this way, the more you will gain clarity about life. When you can clearly see the world, the state of human beings and what is being needed, at times you can be naturally inclined to...
How do you cope with stress and pressure?
Are you ready for a deep dive? I have dived deep for many years, so my answer about my approach will also reflect my experiences over the years. Here comes the answer: I take full responsibility for everything I experience. This does not mean I am personally in...
As a mental health advocate on Quora, are you risking your job or career by writing publically about your own mental illness, or do you not have a job or career left to lose? How does it feel?
If your job is endangered by sharing truth about any mental illness you may have had, then that job is not worth having. So, your boss would fire you if he knew you were ill mentally and you would keep working under his leadership? How healthy would it be for you? In...
What is the Best Practical Test to Give Students After Delivering a Training on Self-Motivation?
Love them unconditionally. This is the greatest test. This is such a test that, it will show them a mirror of their highest potential, but leave them free to choose their approach also. It is impossible to fail in this test, because this test is so nurturing that, no...
What do you think about the future trend of people wanting to work and travel together, like a co-working space and a hostel?
Providing services from the Internet as a business or managing a business via mobile means is a rising trend as the people of the world is communicating more and more by using the Internet. Travel is also getting easier as technology is getting more and more advanced....
Self Loving Approach to Working
I just sent this to a friend after contemplating on why I was reluctant to apply on freelance jobs and about my work life.. how I wanted to work in this world. We both thought it was worth sharing: “I find that when i say i love you to myself it helps with my attitude...
About the Writings in This Site
More on What This Site is About
We are life. Life is 'experiencing'. When I look at it, I can sense that possibilities of experience are ranging to infinity, going beyond my human imagination. Centered on my body, I become aware of the possibilities for me in this life. This is like an unopened...
Contemplation About a New Mode of Living
Here is what I shared with a friend today, I am also sharing this raw and unedited here: [2:43:39 AM] Erdal Bora: i am at a dilemma.. just wanted to share .. [2:43:47 AM] Erdal Bora: so that you can see the whole picture of me [2:44:47 AM] Erdal Bora: now.. today.. i...
On Shame, Love, Hope, Spiritual Growth and Enlightenment
The Desire to Awaken
On Being Honest and Being Rejected
Towards Enlightenment (9): Downward Spiral Accompanied by Vivaldi
Towards Enlightenment (8): Continuity in Focus. What Do You Really Want?
Towards Enlightenment (2): The Ground Floor of Heaven is All Well and Good, but How Do We Get In?
Freedom! – How to Free Oneself from the System and Sow the Seeds of Leaving a Beautiful World for the Future?
Time to Share – Hell’s Exit Door
How Not to Earn Money From a Job and Still Be Happy, and Survive
Well, you gotta get money from somewhere. If you spend it, you need to get it from some source. But it doesn't mean you have to earn it. Money is something that most humans living in the civilized world think is valuable. Take your wallet full of money and take...
Anchoring in Love. Continuity Challenge.
In the morning I had a 2 hour meditation. After this I felt really centered and my energy shot up. I went through the tasks of the day, and generally I knew that it was about sharing Love. It is evening now and the Love still goes...
More Info About My Life and Making the Blog Public
As I wrote in the previous post.. I have experienced both great despair and negative emotions and also peace and joy.. I just now realized that I want to focus on Love more while writing this article.. Now I am about to go public with this blog.. It was private...