"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy." -- Walter Anderson Every day I wake up wondering what happiness feels like. What does it feel like to have peace and contentment? What does it mean to have a sense of joy and appreciation in the little things? What do you do when you look and look and you search and search [...]
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." - Confucius Love is beautiful. Love is life changing. Love is an emotional high. Love is one of the most amazing experiences a person can ever have. Love brings new awareness and change and butterflies and sex. At the same [...]
https://youtu.be/7lscI5-f420 This 3 minute morning wake up meditation by the Honest Guys is a great way to start the day if you only have a few minutes but want to start the day on a calm note!
“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”― Virginia Woolf Do you remember all those times your friends told you, "you deserve better" or "you are the best thing that ever happened to him" or "he doesn't deserve you"? Did you nod your head and say, "yes, I know." Did you say "yes, I know", but not believe it? Did you think it intellectually, but not truly feel the brunt of what that means? I [...]
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." - Zhuangzi To be centered means you don't allow the words, actions or in-action of others affect you, your world, your sense of self or your sense of serenity. Staying centered means fully accepting and loving yourself. It means knowing your strengths and your weaknesses, your flaws and your imperfections and loving all [...]
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama Six. That’s how many relationships it took for me to change. You might be wondering what the hell I was doing in each of those if I wasn’t changing after each one. If you think I was avoiding change you would be [...]
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." - Saadi There are days and weeks and months where we try to move forward. I mean, really try. We try to change and be happier, calmer, easier and better and no matter what we do nothing changes. I used to think all the bad things that happened to me and all the constant feelings of being stuck were my negative karmic energy and I [...]
https://youtu.be/3r-CRbY6g7s This meditation by Kireiki Healing always puts a smile on my face and makes me feel free. When I listen I just let go and feel free to be who I am and I feel free to pursue my goals and dreams.
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII Let me ask you something: Do you ever wake up wondering what you are doing with your life and how and why you ended up where you did? Do you [...]
I’m going to tell you a story about a little girl. It may be hard to read, but as with all dark things there also comes light. My Story There once was a little girl. She was smart and precocious and independent. She liked to do things for herself and was wildly adventurous. She was always off on her own playing with toys or reading or building things or doing things. She liked to play [...]
