by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 28, 2017 | Spiritual Development
I have always envied the Biblical heroes like Moses, Jacob or Abraham. They seemed so lucky as compared to me. God appeared to them and told what to do next. That hasn’t happened for me. In fact, if I ever saw a burning bush, I would take an extinguisher and put it...
by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 21, 2017 | Spiritual Development
Sometimes life is running so smoothly that you are sure you can’t do anything wrong. No matter what direction you take, the wind easily fills your sails and off you go traversing an ocean of calm waters. Other times the wind is so violent and the waves so tall that...
by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 23, 2017 | Spiritual Development
One of my favorite musical groups of all-time is The Eagles. Their music is spellbinding and their lyrics always seem to speak to my heart and soul. One of their most popular songs, Lying Eyes, provides a great metaphor for how our inner guide speaks to us and how we...
by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 16, 2017 | Spiritual Development
For most of my life I have been an agnostic and a great skeptic of anything mystical. I considered people who believed in the existence of an inner intelligence guiding us not to be sane. When confronted with someone like this, I often responded with ridicule. Case in...
by Guillermo Vidal | Nov 9, 2017 | Spiritual Development
As a young child, I had no choice but to rely on those more powerful than me to decide my fate. My parents, of course, played that role in Cuba until I was ten. When mom and dad sent my brothers and I to the United States to escape from Castro’s Cuba, that role...
by Guillermo Vidal | Oct 26, 2017 | Spiritual Development
There is a lot to learn about a person from the way they handle trying times. The old saying about the way we describe a partially filled glass of water might predict optimism or pessimism in the observer, but it does nothing to speak of how a person handles...