I am sure I am not the only one who has negative thoughts. Neuroscientists have found we tend to repeat the same thoughts every day throughout our lifetime. Most of our thoughts are 100% replicas of the ones that came before them. Perhaps at some origin, there was an original trigger, an original experience which…

“God breaks open the heart again and again until it stays open.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan I never understood this quote until now. There’s something deeply destructive in suffering – it keeps destroying that which needs to be let go of – until like falling petals that reveal the center, the heart at its core…

Washington Irving writes: “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”  I shared this quote with some of my friends and followers and received some…

“True bliss is to remain open—as you are—in the midst of all experience, both heavenly and hellish.” From ‘Blue Truth’ by David Deida Joy and fulfilment often come after despair, as our life inevitably changes. Then it becomes easier to acknowledge the sacred gift of life and to appreciate and respect it for its ups…

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