Everything you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form. -- Franz Kafka Going through a loss can be very tough. Whether it is something major, like losing a loved one, our health, a relationship or a job, or something minor, like the end of a holiday …
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may …
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People run in every direction meeting sorrow after sorrow. Why? Because they’re disconnected from themselves. -- Pythagoras Have you ever asked yourself Why do we suffer? Shinzen Young, a well-known Dharma teacher, describes suffering using the following formula: Suffering = Pain x Resistance. What does this mean exactly? 🙂 Pain is part of life and …
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love. -- Rumi There are two essential forces operating in this world: Love and Fear. Whether you are conscious of it or not, every moment of your life you are asked to choose between one of them. Sometimes it might not …
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -- Lewis B. Smedes What does forgiveness mean to you? 🙂 Sometimes there is a little bit of confusion around it. Forgiveness is not condoning a behavior, pretending nothing bad ever happened. It does not even mean hanging out with the …
Don't believe every thing you think. ― Byron Katie In Getting Unstuck: 4 Steps to Let Go of Limiting Beliefs we spoke about limiting beliefs and what it takes to let them go. Often these thoughts are so unconscious, that we do not even know we are thinking them. We are only aware of their projections into …
The only limits you have are the limits you believe. ― Wayne Dyer A limiting belief is an unconscious thought through which we interpret the world. You can think of it as an invisible veil that distorts all our perceptions. Most of us have one or more of these filters. Usually they become part of us …
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In Energy: Where Does It Come From? we understood how important it is to be connected to our inner energy 🙂 In fact, when our heart is not completely open to receive it, we can be influenced much more easily by our surroundings. How can we limit being drained by certain situations or people? How can we …
This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF. -- Kamal Ravikant In It All Starts with You! Why Loving Yourself First Is Essential …
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi In our western society many of us struggle with self-love, considering it selfish. Often we feel inadequate and judge ourselves harshly. We do not even question our self-loathing, assuming …
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