Toward a Meaningful Marriage

I'm so excited that I find myself starting to teach a course on a meaningful marriage in this new place! I'm almost crying tears of excitement, remembering how I had to rebuild my life after experiencing divorce about six years ago. I've come a long way. This was the so-called descent for the sake of ascent.

When I descended and experienced the so-called "dark night of the soul". In retrospect, I understand that this life challenge prepared me for encountering and absorbing Chabad Chassidus and its profound teachings in that it broke my heart and made me humble.

One of these profound teachings I studied both formally and by myself concerns marriage, and a meaningful one at that. When I first encountered it after my divorce, I said to myself, "I wish I had encountered it before marriage."

So I have good reason to get excited now that I've started teaching a course on a meaningful marriage for local doctors through the intermediary of one local marriage agency whose three founding members are very satisfied ex-clients of my Jewish coaching.

In spite of my initial fear that my potential students may show some resistance to the fact that this teaching in general and this specific course of mine in particular are Jewish and scare them away, the first students reacted very positively, some even enthusiastically. This has made me realize that truth is universal regardless of its origin.

Teaching this course is also an excellent opportunity for me to deepen my knowledge and understanding of a meaningful marriage as a preparation for my possible marriage sometime somewhere.

Justice and Integrity

When I was still deeply trapped in my mind-made prison, I used to get angry very easily, until it destroyed something that was very precious to me back then. Paradoxically, it's this very anger that has made me stop getting angry since then. The destruction brought about by my anger was so devastating that it has even destroyed the very source that produced the anger itself.

These days I seldom get angry. But there is one thing toward which I still feel fierce anger, and mounting one at that. This one thing is social injustice, especially in international relationships. Even the word "anger" may be an understatament.

I can't stop feeling disgusted with the grave injustice committed by the "Empire of Lies" and its vassals in the rest of the world. I'm discovering, mainly thanks to X, where I follow consciencious and courageous individuals, that this injustice isn't new but has been going on for decades and even centuries. But thanks to X and other alternative media outlets, this injustice is being exposed, probably for the first time to the detriment of this "Emipire of Lies" and their vassals.

I'm no less appalled by their lack of integrity, or their hypocrisy and double standards. The "rules" they have been imposing upon others don't apply to them, and they have been continuing to commit the very crimes that often fabricate and falsely accuse their "enemies" for.

This has made me realize that justice and integrity are among the most important values for me. Fortunately, I have enough reason to be optimistic. For the first time in centuries, we are witnessing the decline of this unjust unipolar world order and the emergence of a more just multipolar world order driven by a couple of (re)emerging powers that are demonized by this "Emipire of Lies" and their vassals through their worldwide network of propaganda, which may be the last remaining "legacy" of theirs. Enough is enough.

Total Inner Surrender to What Is

One of the inner states I've been aspiring these days to arrive at and remain in is total inner surrender to what is, which in turn is supposed to bring peace. I feel I've really come a long way since I found myself starting this spiritual journal as a result of one totally unexpected turmoil I experienced in life several years ago.

In the process of this transformation I first became aware that I had been asleep in that I had been totally trapped in my mind-made prison and had been unaware of this. Little by little I've started to liberate myself from this prison, spending more and more time in the present moment.

Since I left Jerusalem about six months ago and started experiencing new challenges in this new place, I've also started to make a conscious effort to say "yes" to life by totally surrendering to what is.

The most difficult but the most powerful part in this daily exercise is to realize that what I experience each present moment is intrinsically good and internalize this realization beyond my rational mind. This way each present moment becomes a purpose in itself instead of remaining a stepping stone for some never attainable "brighter" future.

This way I've stopped seeing my present state as an "exile" or preparation for some "redemption". I've never been more peaceful than now in my entire life.