Tag: life

  • Wholeness

    All emotional pains are born of self-divisionwhen a part of you desperately tailors a mask of perfection over the very wound you fear to face.The remedy is not a magical epiphany or a hero descending to save you.The cure is to rip the mask off yourself and voluntarily confront the terror beneath—again, and again, and…

  • Streams

    We are all streams of a single river, summoned home by the mother ocean.Mountains, hills, mud, branches,every tight circle or blind bend—every obstacle on our path—all conspires to guide usto riseunstoppable, unhaltinginto the arms of the great sea.

  • Ego

    The ego is in a whirl of destroying itself and resurrecting itself at the same time,like day and night, breath and pause, Yin and Yang.In the silence between each dissolution and rebirthwe may catch a glimpse of our true essence:child-like, wide-eyed before its own reflection,heart inflamed, soul enchanted—a single, timeless heartbeatnamed eternity.

  • Blue or Red

    When adversity falls upon you, and it will,you are left with only two choices.You can either complain about lifeand become a victim of what life thrusts upon youOr, you can choose to be an active participant of itand voluntarily confront the rising challenges.This is not merely a mental trick or an attitude switch; but rather,…

  • Truth revealed

    When the survival mind that escapes from everyday terrormeets the brave heart that longs for an extraordinary life, the lies are exhaustedand the truth reveals itself.

  • Heart wisdom

    In the depth of your heart lies your infinite wisdom.It unveils its holy faceonly when you surrender—not giving up,but letting fallthe shackles that imprison your soul.

  • Acceptance

    The paradox:You can not work, pray, force, beg, or meditate your pain away.It’s only by fully accepting and embracing itdo you find liberation and peace.The tighter you clench your fist,the quicker the sand streams away.Similarly,the tighter you grasp at the wish of feeling better,the farther you are from really having it.

  • Quest for Freedom

    The only way to personal freedom— a simple yet radical approach to happiness —is to eliminate what is unreal; what’s left is then the real.The first step and probably the hardest one is to identify and recognize what’s unreal.For our mind likes to deceive us into believing the unreal to be real. Our thoughts, our…

  • Tomorrow is an illusion

    Your happiness does not live in the tomorrow.Dreaming about an expected future is an escapefrom the pain you fear today.The future is an illusion until you are present here and now.

  • Self-healing

    The first step towards self-healingis to soberly examine what sits right in front,without any preconceived assumption.