The unencumbered spirit

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  • The Healing Power of Nature: A Journey Within

    I believe nature has a way of healing us. When you go outside and completely immerse yourself in the beauty of nature — no matter if it’s relaxing mindlessly on a beach, wandering aimlessly through a forest, or just sitting silently by a stream — it almost feels like a transcendental experience, where the weight…

  • What is LOVE

    To loveis not to possess, nor is it to sacrifice.To loveis to offer your heart, but not for another to keep.To loveis to let love flow like waves between the shores of two souls.To loveis to know the pain of too much tenderness, yet still fall willingly and vulnerably.To loveis to hold one’s hand firmly…

  • Discover Inner Strength Within

    “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi You are the universe experiencing itself in one dimension. Your birth is the universe longing for itself. Your every thought, emotion, and action is the universe perceiving itself through you. Therefore, you have literally the entire universe…

  • The existential ache of life

    Change is inevitable. Sometimes the people we love and the things we cherish fade as we enter a new stage of our lives. It hurts sometimes. I don’t think anybody can get through it without an ache in the heart and a wound in the spirit. This existential tragedy of life seems cruel as no…

  • Love your shadow

    The shadow isn’t your enemy.It is the catalyst that breeds light.And that light you see isn’t borrowed from outside,but the flaming spirit within you that never stopped burning. Every time when you choose to feel instead of numb,To question instead of obey,To confront instead of retreat,You carve a crack through the darkness,And send a message…

  • Do not pursue happiness

    There is an interesting paradox in life. On the one hand, it seems what everyone is seeking ultimately, is a sense of happiness. While on the other, happiness is not simply a goal that we can just achieve. For happiness doesn’t just descend upon us when we call for it. Reality is always crueler than…

  • The purpose of being alive

    One of my favorite philosopher Alan Watts once said and I paraphrase here: “What is the purpose of being alive? Well, the purpose of being alive is simply, being alive.” Sometimes, the ultimate truth, the enlightening wisdom, is shockingly, simple. However, like any wisdom, to understand it is easy, as it only requires our intellect,…

  • How to stop trying to “fit in”

    You are not who you think you are. You are not who others think you are. You are what you think other people think you are. This “looking glass” theory perfectly demonstrates two of our most startling existential tragedies, which if being understood, can help us let go of the desire to “fit in”. First…

  • Happiness in Taoism

    In Taoism, the means to happiness lies within the harmony with nature . The funny thing is that nature already shows us how to achieve this seemly complicated yet simple notion of happiness in various ways if we pay closer attention. The blooming and falling of the flowers, the waves and drops of the bodies…