If You Dig Awakening….

Written on April 24, 2008 by Tom Stine / 12 Comments »



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I dig spiritual awakening. Do you? Honestly, I know of no other topic that lights me up and gets my attention. Therefore, I’d like to share some cool blogs that are very awakening focused. I’ve discovered these great sites and people over the past few months, and they put out some great stuff.

Takuin Minamoto writes passionately from his experience. His posts are moving and almost a meditation in and of themselves.

Davidya has a lot of great commentary on the subject of awakening. I found him recently because of a post he did on Adyashanti. He has been leaving some fantastic comments on my post Adyashanti Retreat Report, where he, J Stone and I have been having quite the exchange of ideas and thoughts.

Kenton Whitman writes a Zen inspired blog that has a number of excellent posts that deal with the whole topic of awakening.

There are other sites to check-out, too, on this subject, my favorite being Adyashanti’s web site. You can watch videos and download free audio recordings of Adya speaking about awakening.

And last, but not least, I’d like to give a big thumbs up to two spirituality blogs that I really like. While his blog isn’t about awakening, my friend Albert at UrbanMonk.net writes a spiritually inspired blog on personal development. Albert has been writing some excellent posts lately, and I suggest you check him out.

The second is Divine Purpose Unleashed written by CK and Michelle, two very in tune women who write about how to find your divine purpose. Michelle interviewed me on her Internet radio show last month.

Enjoy these blogs. I do. Talk to you soon when the retreat is over.

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