Fast is Slow. Slow is Fast.
Almost every Friday during college I attended Shabbat dinner at the campus Hillel. And every Friday night Rabbi James Ponet would climb...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Mar 3
- 3 min
Love's True Power
TRANSCRIPT: How do you wield power with love? How do you wield strength with love? Or how does love itself become strength? This, I feel,...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Wedding Bells
Last week I proposed to my partner Helen on a rickety old navigation tower at a place in New Orleans called the End of the World. There...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Spiritual Perfectionism – And what to do about it
I've noticed something recently that I call "spiritual perfectionism" and I'd love to hear what others think. My initial thoughts on this...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Jan 17
- 4 min
Everything is a door to enlightenment
Imagine that all the objects around you—that painting, that plant, that bowl—are little doors with handles. And if you were to turn the...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
Stable Awakening
Over the last five months, I have been going through a powerful and at times very difficult transformation. This summer, I went through...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Dec 10, 2022
- 2 min
The Wisdom of Silence
Knowledge enters through the brain. Wisdom enters through the bones. I've been honored to meet a few individuals in my life who have...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Nov 18, 2022
- 3 min
The Nature of Peace
After four days of fasting in the Inyo mountains, our group sat in a circle and we each told what happened to us during our time alone....
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
What does it mean to be "spiritual"?
I was recently asked, "When people say they are "spiritual," what do they mean?" I thought it was a brilliant question — one that...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Oct 7, 2022
- 2 min
Love is the Strongest Magic
Love is the strongest magic we have. It is the fire that transforms anything that's thrown into it. It turns "hawks into doves," enemies...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Oct 4, 2022
- 4 min
Psychosocial Fields
Thumbnail Credit: Esteban Sayhueque - Instagram: estebansayhueque Have you ever noticed the way a charismatic person can light up a room?...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Sep 19, 2022
- 3 min
Love's Invisible Rivers
Photo by Sindre Strøm from Pexels I asked a friend of mine recently if he loved himself. He approaches most things in life with humor...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Sep 15, 2022
- 3 min
The Messiah Archetype
For most of my life, I had a certain habit which I'm not entirely proud of. I wanted to save others. In Western culture, the archetype of...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Jun 22, 2022
- 2 min
The Trap of Grand Ambitions
"How will you be remembered when you're gone?" Legacy is a big point of anxiety for a lot of people I work with. We know we'll die some...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
How to Swim with Snakes
Last Thursday, I found myself at the bottom of a pond. And there was something down there with me. I've been afraid of deep water ever...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- May 11, 2022
- 5 min
The Psychology Behind Manifestation
There’s an idea in various metaphysical traditions that “thought is causative.” That is, our thoughts have a direct, metaphysical...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- May 11, 2022
- 4 min
How to Parent Your Inner Child
One morning, I went for a walk. My anxiety and self-consciousness had returned to hound me. I was exploring the archetypal idea of the...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
Addiction and the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
I'm constantly amazed how certain religious myths map onto human psychology. Psychologist Gabor Maté wrote a book called "In the Realm of...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Feb 18, 2022
- 3 min
Were You Abandoned? Or Engulfed?
It feels like a lot of people around me are yearning for intimate connection right now. I keep coming back to "Journey of the Heart" by...
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Daniel Lev Shkolnik
- Feb 18, 2022
- 6 min
Anger is a Sword
For a long time, I tried not to be angry. My father was an angry man. His father was an angry man. At some point, I decided, "I will not...
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