andrebest.com Home :: Spiritual Growth
The Real Fear Factor
October 30, 2010 by Andre Best
Fear is one of my favorite friends. Fear is one of my favorite feelings. I also think that fear is one of almost everybody's favorite feelings, whether they know it or not. Fear is an amazing driving force in life. Some say that we have this innate fear from the second we were released from the cocoon of our mother's womb. Some say that we live our entire lives living with fear as our friend, without knowing it to be present. Think about the fear in your life. Okay, let's not make this personal. Yet.Posted by Andre Best on October 30, 2010 | Comments (0)
To Be or Not to Be
August 31, 2010 by Andre Best
That is the question. Well, actually, the rhetorical question that most of us are more familiar with is To Be or Not To be. That is the question. Right? I found myself rephrasing this age-old Shakespearean quote a few days ago when I was in the midst of some inner-looking type of work involving this entire topic of the 'I'. It might be necessary to start off with saying that I'm not purporting to discuss the 'I' type of I that we're all used to. I'm taking about the 'I' of existence.Posted by Andre Best on August 31, 2010 | Comments (0)
Victimizing the Victim Mentality
June 26, 2010 by Andre Best
Have you ever tasted the stillness of the day, especially in the morning when the world is quiet and hasn't awoken yet? Have you ever tasted the stillness inside of you, when your mind hasn't booted up for the day yet and filled you with useless and meaningless pondering and words about the day? Have you ever tasted the stillness in your heart when all is quiet inside and you can feel the palpable solitude of existence?Posted by Andre Best on June 26, 2010 | Comments (0)
Inside Out or Outside In: You Choose
May 30, 2010 by Andre Best
Insights are interesting in that they can appear at any time and any place, provided one is staying open to their appearance. I had an insight appear recently when I was talking with a group of friends, and it was so impacting to me that it left me speechless and unable to effectively communicate what it was that just happened. When insights are powerful enough they have the effect of doing that, at least that is my experience.Posted by Andre Best on May 30, 2010 | Comments (0)
Who Said Life Is Fair?
March 28, 2010 by Andre Best
Sometimes life isn't fair is it? Sometimes one can do everything within their power to make a situation fair and decent and yet that doesn't amount to anything, in the end. The situation, and the outcome still turns out to the same undesired end. It's not fair when life doesn't work out in the end the way we want it to, is it?Posted by Andre Best on March 28, 2010 | Comments (0)
Oh, Never Mind
October 29, 2009 by Andre Best
At times it really amazes me how the mind can pick one up and carry one away with no thought as to what is actually being done to the holder of the mind itself. It's as if it has a mind of it's own, which it does. But, let me ask you: Would you bite the hand that feeds you? I surmise not.Posted by Andre Best on October 29, 2009 | Comments (0)
Being Spiritually Bent
August 27, 2009 by Andre Best
After writing this e-rag for four years now, it has become clear to me that spirituality is important to me, even thru this venue. I didn't intend for this avenue of communication to turn out this way when I first started it in 2005. Did I start it with the intent to share so many articles on spirituality? No. Did I start this virtual tome to share what being a spiritual human means to me? No. But here it is, once again. Whether one likes it or not, it is what it has been shared to be.Posted by Andre Best on August 27, 2009 | Comments (0)
Exorcising Egoistic Expressionism
April 28, 2009 by Andre Best
We all know people who have egos. We all know people who have big egos. We all know what an ego is, in the usual sense of the definition of the word as it is used in current language. Freud coined the term a century ago, and then it was used by Carl Jung with reference to the conscious part of the brain that we all have and most of us use. Now the word 'ego' is considered a Freudian term to describe that part of the mind that is present during our waking states as humans. Humans being, that is.Posted by Andre Best on April 28, 2009 | Comments (0)
A Conversation with Consciousness
February 10, 2009 by Andre Best
There has been a fair share of books written in recent years about peoples' experiences with having conversations with God/Truth/Reality. If I were to be so blessed so as to have my own Conversation with Consciousness this is what the...Posted by Andre Best on February 10, 2009 | Comments (2)
Andre On: Being Spiritual
December 20, 2008 by Andre Best
Spirituality is quickly becoming an overused New Age word and a bastardized description of what is truly a glorious manner with which to be in relation to existence. That's too bad, as the dilution of this spiritual leaning that more and more people are having is truly something to behold at times.Posted by Andre Best on December 20, 2008 | Comments (0)
Commentaries on Life: Live From Yourself
December 6, 2008 by Andre Best
If a blog author were to always write what was on his or her mind, that blog author would be in serious trouble. Myself included. You see, a weblog is nothing more than just that. An online written vomiting, so...Posted by Andre Best on December 6, 2008 | Comments (0)
Making Meaninglessness Meaningful
October 11, 2008 by Andre Best
Life boils down to nothing. It has no purpose and it has no meaning in and of itself. It is what we make it though. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not about what we are doing with ourselves and our...Posted by Andre Best on October 11, 2008 | Comments (0)
Sucker Punched By A Sucker
July 21, 2008 by Andre Best
Have you ever noticed how Life sometimes comes overall from a place of showing one that it is ongoing, never stopping, and seamless in its approach to showing one what it wants one to know? If only one has ears...Posted by Andre Best on July 21, 2008 | Comments (0)
Crying Over Spilled Milk
June 7, 2008 by Andre Best
Have you ever spilled milk? Really. The actual stuff. Milk. Have you ever spilled milk? It could be that some flopped over the edge of the glass you were holding it in. Or it could be that the entire milk...Posted by Andre Best on June 7, 2008 | Comments (0)
An Article About Nothing
April 30, 2008 by Andre Best
Ever watch that old Seinfeld television show which ran for many years and essentially was about nothing? Well, this article is going to be the same. I know some of you might be thinking to yourself, 'Hey, André, what's the...Posted by Andre Best on April 30, 2008 | Comments (0)
The Matter With Mind Over Matter
March 30, 2008 by Andre Best
I sometimes find it interesting when it comes to writing that I flow with whatever comes into my mind. In a way it becomes a cathartic release of sorts and allows me to move what was beforehand in my mind...Posted by Andre Best on March 30, 2008 | Comments (0)
What You Do Not Know You Do Not Know About Life
March 17, 2008 by Andre Best
Life is the most amazing mystery at times. Why? Because it does such a great job of hiding from us when we seek it, and showing up right in our face when we least want to expect it. But struggle...Posted by Andre Best on March 17, 2008 | Comments (1)
The Foundation of a True Life
February 23, 2008 by Andre Best
Have you ever paid attention to how much we humans think and believe that we have to explain ourselves to others and prove our self worth to others, usually at our own expense and strength? It's amazing how when one...Posted by Andre Best on February 23, 2008 | Comments (0)
Sticking to the Truth
January 20, 2008 by Andre Best
Sometimes sticking with what we said we would stick with can get kind of sticky. Take anything that you had committed yourself to, or had given your word to someone that you would do it. And, so once said or...Posted by Andre Best on January 20, 2008 | Comments (0)
Responsibly Responding to Responsibility
December 8, 2007 by Andre Best
Okay, let me preface this article by stating that I'm going to be writing about something that is dear to my heart, but at the same time will probably alienate a lot of my readers and perhaps cause them to...Posted by Andre Best on December 8, 2007 | Comments (1)
Living Life Large
November 22, 2007 by Andre Best
I can’t help but find it interesting how Life gives and offers to us exactly what we need, when we need it. Nothing more, nothing less. It always knows exactly what is needed for each of us to grow in...Posted by Andre Best on November 22, 2007 | Comments (0)
A Matter of Choice
October 7, 2007 by Andre Best
Every moment of every day we are all given choices to make. Not just the big ones, like what we need to do for the next ten years of our life, but all the way down to what color footwear...Posted by Andre Best on October 7, 2007 | Comments (0)
Silence, Please
August 23, 2007 by Andre Best
Ever notice how hard it is to be in silence, or to live in silence? It's not easy to sit in quiet is it? The silence makes our ears ring. It haunts us with voices that seem to suddenly arise...Posted by Andre Best on August 23, 2007 | Comments (1)
Saying Yes to Saying No
July 20, 2007 by Andre Best
Ever notice how sometimes it's so hard to not do something that you know you shouldn't be doing? Ever wonder why that is the way it is? Or, putting it another way, ever notice how you find yourself doing something...Posted by Andre Best on July 20, 2007 | Comments (0)
The Acceptance of Resistance
June 7, 2007 by Andre Best
We are wonderful creatures of resistance to what is. Resistance of the present. Resistance of what was. Resistance of what is. We resist, and then we resist our notion of actually admitting to ourselves that we are being resistant. It's...Posted by Andre Best on June 7, 2007 | Comments (0)
Oh, For the Love of...
May 28, 2007 by Andre Best
Have you ever experienced the fact of actually enjoying doing something from deep within your heart and yet fighting with actually doing it? Perhaps it's building a relationship. Perhaps it's building a career. Perhaps it's actively playing with your children....Posted by Andre Best on May 28, 2007 | Comments (0)
Getting Closure on Closure
April 29, 2007 by Andre Best
Life is full of beginnings. And Endings. Sometimes the beginnings are very far spaced from the endings, but to quote that famous line out of The Matrix movie, 'everything that has a beginning, has an ending'. And when Life offers...Posted by Andre Best on April 29, 2007 | Comments (1)
Patience IS a Virtue
February 26, 2007 by Andre Best
Patience is something that we all struggle with at one time or another during our lives here on this plane of Life. But, for some, patience is a lesson in life that could be well heeded so as to bring...Posted by Andre Best on February 26, 2007 | Comments (2)
It's A Wonderful Life
February 3, 2007 by Andre Best
Life is a wonderful teacher to those who are willing to learn. It gives us what we need, when we need it, for the reasons that we really need it. Not what we think we want. Not what we think...Posted by Andre Best on February 3, 2007 | Comments (2)
The Art of Letting Go
January 15, 2007 by Andre Best
With my own recent series of unfortunate Life events under my belt, or behind me, depending on perception, I have a much clearer insight into the art of letting go. And I know firsthand that letting go is possible. What...Posted by Andre Best on January 15, 2007 | Comments (1)
A Blog Comment Is Worth A Thousand Words
January 5, 2007 by Andre Best
Isn't it interesting how one situation can elicit as many different responses as there are people involved in that situation? What comes to mind is recent occurrences of comments and submittals to my blog here at andrebest.com The comments range...Posted by Andre Best on January 5, 2007 | Comments (0)
A Change of Heart
December 1, 2006 by Andre Best
Life is such a brutal foe at times. It's amazing that any of us make it through the times that are thrown at us throughout our forced journey through existence. But this is not to say that everyone handles these battles in the same way, nor even that everyone comes through the battle unscathed. Or alive. Life is not always fun. I surmise it's not supposed to be. That is, like good armor made of quality forged steel: the hotter the fire, the better the forging process and the stronger the steel. And the cooler the fire, the weaker the forging of the steel, the easier it is for the steel to fail when the fire of Life gets hot next time. And we all know there is always a 'next time', eh?Posted by Andre Best on December 1, 2006
Life Changing Moments - a.k.a. Insights
October 18, 2006 by Andre Best
Have you ever had an insight that was particularly troubling yet insightful at the same time? You might think of one of these events as occurring when a time in your life was perhaps most troubling as you struggled to work through an issue that was of then utmost importance to you. You find yourself struggling, perhaps for many years, with the issue. All to no avail. The issue persists and the struggle continued. And then, through your own diligent and persistent efforts the issue is changed via an insight of utmost revelation.Posted by Andre Best on October 18, 2006
Starting Stopping Suffering
September 16, 2006 by Andre Best
Have you ever noticed how the world wants us to think that everything is okay in it? Yet, why is there so much suffering everywhere around this globe? We all can agree... everyone suffers. At some time, some place, with or without someone, everyone suffers. Why does this happen? Is there a need for suffering? Is there a reason that others suffer more than others? That is, their lives are more definable by events and circumstances that are not generally desired by the masses, so we call that suffering?Posted by Andre Best on September 16, 2006 | Comments (7)
Found: The Purpose of Living
September 9, 2006 by Andre Best
If you're one of the few people wondering if there's a purpose to your existence, I'm venturing to add to my continuing series of articles on this topic of a life's purpose that it's not a matter of what IF there's no purpose to life, instead, I purport the concept that there is NO purpose to life.Posted by Andre Best on September 9, 2006 | Comments (11)
Life Isn't Just About Growing Old...
July 30, 2006 by Andre Best
Have you ever wondered why life is the way it is? Why the days turn out like they do and why everything ends up happening the way it does in the manner it does to with and to whom it does? Sometimes I wish there were a way to figure all this out and know what was happening and why it was happening so that the worry and the trepidation and the confusion were not a part of life, nor even part of the equation.Posted by Andre Best on July 30, 2006
An Uncommon Way to Deal with Loneliness
June 15, 2006 by Andre Best
I have recently been thinking about loneliness and the things that go on in one's life so as to make them feel that their life is full, especially when they're feeling lonely on a daily basis. More often than not it amazes me just how much people do to pile stuff into their day so as to stay busy. Loneliness is not a pretty feeling. I know we've all been there at some point, or points, in our lives. And we do whatever we can to appease feeling lonely, or alone. Loneliness.Posted by Andre Best on June 15, 2006 | Comments (3)
A Gratitude Attitude
May 2, 2006 by Andre Best
A good friend and I were recently having a lengthy discussion about life and its sometimes perplexing issues that it brings to each of us in its own empowering ways. And my friend asked me about what I had gratitude for in my life. At the moment it set me back a bit since I did have an attitude about gratitude, but it wasn't about allowing acknowledgement of what I should be recognizing in my life.Posted by Andre Best on May 2, 2006 | Comments (1)
A Study of Loneliness
April 24, 2006 by Andre Best
I've found that loneliness is perhaps one of the most powerful of all human emotions. It leads some people to suicide, drives others into relationships and situations that they wouldn't have otherwise gotten into, and yet still causes others to find new and glorious ways to embrace the state and learn what they can from it to reduce its severity, next time. But loneliness still can be a rather perplexing emotion, to me at least.Posted by Andre Best on April 24, 2006
For When You're Depressed, Defeated, Downcast...
November 25, 2005 by Andre Best
I remember coming back from vacation in Canada earlier this year and I had an insight as I was flying out of my old hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. Let me preface this by stating that I live in Phoenix, Arizona, the land of the virtually eternal sun. I'm used to the sun now after living here for over a dozen years. And after living in Canada until I was 30 I was used to the dreary, depressing, dark days up there. Virtually all year round.Posted by Andre Best on November 25, 2005
Why Live?
November 15, 2005 by Andre Best
Perhaps I'm just reaching the age of mental maturity where I'm beginning to question things but today, and for several weeks now, I find myself questioning why we all exist. Now, before you think I've fallen into an esoteric blackhole...Posted by Andre Best on November 15, 2005 | Comments (0)
Awareness is Key. Awareness is Everything.
October 22, 2005 by Andre Best
I stated that I have read all the books of Mr. Howard, and listened to over 100 of his tapes, yet when things start going south in life 'everything I know about Mr. Howard's Truth Teachings flies out the window'. I asked Mr. Russell what I should do at those times.Posted by Andre Best on October 22, 2005
The Meaning of Life Is...?
October 11, 2005 by Andre Best
I find myself continuing to be drawn back into the thoughts about the meaning of life. Now this is not an article trying to presuppose the meaning of existence of humanity. Rather this is an article about one man trying to sort out the thoughts that are recently running through his brain regarding what one's purpose here on Earth is. That is, while we are given our own allotment of time on this physical plane.Posted by Andre Best on October 11, 2005
Insights After A Special Vacation
October 7, 2005 by Andre Best
I just came back from Canada where my family celebrated my niece's wedding, my Dad's 75th birthday, and the first time the six members of my family have been under the same roof in over 20 years.Posted by Andre Best on October 7, 2005
A Writing on Spirituality
October 3, 2005 by Andre Best
This is a short writing I composed a while ago when I finished reading a chapter out of one of the more esoteric books I read daily. At the time I found the words just sprouting out of my mind and felt compelled to put 'words to e-paper'.Posted by Andre Best on October 3, 2005
