Whenever you feel like you’ve exhausted your options. Whenever you feel drained, hopeless, or lost. Whenever you realize the path you chose will lead to a wonderful place you don’t want to be at. Whenever you find yourself painting a picture you don’t long to be in. Whenever you feel you are writing a storyRead more
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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
Living cannot be done through desk research. You can only truly experience life through experiencing life. So give yourself as many real experiences as humanly possible. Especially when in doubt, scared, or unsure, leap into something new. Not because of an end goal, but simply because of what can be found in the new experienceRead more
This is my grandfather’s mother. My father’s grandmother. I never knew her and neither have you. But I can feel her presence sometimes. Everytime I walk into a room, she is right behind me, just like all of our ancestors. Even if you cannot see or feel their presence, know that they are here. InRead more
I’m sorry for when I was too little or too much. I’m sorry for all the times I did not see you, when I was too self-involved or not present enough. I’m sorry for the times I didn’t listen well enough. I’m sorry for when I listened, but still couldn’t hear you. I’m sorry forRead more