Awareness Archives – God In All Things

The Ego: Another Name for the Evil Spirit

by andyotto | Sep 7, 2020 | Awareness, Essays | 0

The ego cares about our possessions, our status, and our group membership – all things that are passing. The spiritual life ought to lead us to put our stock in the lasting promise of God.

Filling an Empty Well

by andyotto | Jun 8, 2020 | Awareness, Scripture Reflections, The Tough Questions | 1

For many of us these days our energies are focused in fewer places than normal, which means those...

What Boredom Unveils

by andyotto | Apr 27, 2020 | Awareness, The Tough Questions | 2

Struggling with boredom? God may be using it to unveil difficult truths.

Rejecting the Popular Image of God

by andyotto | Jan 6, 2020 | Awareness | 9

The popular notions of God are terrible and along with many atheists, I reject them, too.

Count Your Blessings

by andyotto | Nov 25, 2019 | Awareness, Spiritual Practices | 3

What do you do when you’re worried and can’t sleep?

Noticing: The Heart of Spiritual Maturity

by andyotto | Sep 16, 2019 | Awareness | 2

Key to Ignatian spirituality is awareness, noticing. When we notice the details about our life and surroundings, we get to encounter God.

The Devil Made Me Do It! – Passing the Buck on Sin

by andyotto | Aug 12, 2019 | Awareness | 3

“The Devil” is our own creation. The evil spirit, in Ignatian language, is us falling into the trap of being blind to our weak points.

KonMari Your Spiritual Life in 6 Steps

by andyotto | May 20, 2019 | Awareness, Discernment, Spiritual Practices | 4

How can you use Marie Kondō’s tidying method to declutter your spiritual life. It’s simple Ignatian discernment.

The Principle & Foundation: Ignatian Spirituality in a Nutshell

by andyotto | Mar 4, 2019 | Awareness, Discernment | 2

Ignatian spirituality can be summed up in the few paragraphs at the beginning of the Exercises: sharing life with God and responding in gratitude to God’s gifts in freedom.

Feeding Our Pain

by andyotto | Sep 10, 2018 | Awareness | 1

There are some who live lives of anger and hurt, and they seek to continue to feed their pain. This is a sign of the evil spirit or, in the language of Eckhart Tolle, the “pain-body”. They key is not identifying ourselves with it.