The Spiritual Rewards of Blogging

You learn first that having rests on giving and not on getting. Next you learn that you learn what you teach and that you want to learn peace. (A Course in Miracles)

I started my blog in November of 2008. I still remember how surprisingly easy it was to navigate myself through the blogspot.com tutorial. I started out with a note a month which soon became one a week, and then one a day. More recently we post a couple of notes a day as Suzanne Yang was willing to join the effort. We averaging about 25 viewers a day from all over the world, and are just shy of the 100 000 viewer milestone.

Jed McKenna writes in ‘Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing’, that you should write regularly as a spiritual traveler and track your spiritual evolution that way. He himself added that he kept tearing up his old insights as the new ones were streaming in. So in the end nothing remained on paper but the enlightenment that he experienced one fine day. This advice was obviously given before the blogging days. All notes are relevant for others even when you personally might outgrow some insights. Along my spiritual journey it never really happened that I disagree with anything I wrote in earlier years. Sometimes I am less emotionally involved when I read these old notes. Sometimes I revise them a little, but I never deleted a single contribution, as I mostly still agree with the insights from the past.

The joy of blog writing is to see how the articles that others stumble on and review are often very related to questions I still ponder today. As it turns out, reader and author are One. We all have different centering exercises but for me writing is what keeps me sane and connected with the Beyond. The spiritual rewards of blogging are amazing.  Your peace of mind and serenity will thank you for it!