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 …
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 …
Story of a Journey 