When life takes your breath away, surrender. When life makes you surrender, find your breath. Close your eyes. Breathe in deeply. Let peace find its way through your veins by fueling it with oxygen. Let the mind wander wherever it wants to go. What is true will find its way up through layers of theRead more
In the western world, we are so focused on what it is that we want, it tends to become the most frequently asked question in our quest for happiness. But more often than not, it’s the most irrelevant of all. Getting what we want rarely leads to more happiness. Getting closer to it may comeRead more
In this lifetime, you will experience many things I would love to be able to protect you from. Burdens that, if given a choice, I would willingly and lovingly carry for you if I could. Thankfully, I can’t, because my protection would make you absolutely vulnerable to anything. If I could make your life easyRead more
My darling child, listen. Listen to the birds, to the wind, to the spoken and the unspoken, to the outside and the inside. When alone, simply ask yourself: ‘what do I hear?’ Before you know it, entire symphonies will be performed that, a moment ago, you were oblivious of. When with another person, listen toRead more
I know you must feel guilt or shame at times. We all do. The more we have been hurt, unseen, or unloved, mostly by ourselves, the more easily guilt or shame will find us. Once they have, the more desperately they will want to stay with us. Simply because they have nowhere else to go.Read more
Don’t let the education system -or anyone, for that matter- define your intelligence. They have no clue how to measure it. There are many forms of intelligence. Your teachers are told to look for only one, which is basically: the amount of data you can reproduce, times the speed you can do this at. SchoolsRead more