The unencumbered spirit

Tag: mental-health

  • 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,…