“Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy." - Mark Manson I’ve been doing a lot thinking about what happiness is and what it isn’t. I've been wondering about what I want versus what society is telling me I think I should have. I've been drilling down into what happiness means to ME and not what others tell me it should mean. Last week my SO was [...]
"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."- Swami Sivananda Do you have a constant sense of malaise, depression, boredom or apathy that never seems to go away? Do you read books, try medications, listen to podcasts or attend seminars and never seem to feel better? Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and [...]
Another great guided meditation by Jason Stephenson to help you start your day off right! https://youtu.be/N9J99Bdr4fQ
"The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work." - Ayn Rand No One Wants to Be Mediocre Do you want to master your life and realize your dreams? No one wants to wake up one day and realize they hate their life. No one wants to wake up one day and realize life is not what they dreamed it would be. No one wants to live a life unfulfilled. [...]
“Don't forget to love yourself.” - Soren Kierkegaard Do you know what it means to love yourself? We all want to fit in and feel like we belong. Many of us have that constant nagging little voice telling us we aren’t like everyone else. However, I often wonder, does everyone have that nagging voice or only some of us? What is so wrong with being different, with not being what others consider normal? Albert [...]
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." - T. S. Eliot Are you emotionally intense? Do you feel like you’re just “too much” for most people? Do you worry that everything you feel comes in massive [...]
"It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there." - Robert M. Pirsig Zen saying are great. Inspirational quotes are awesome. I say them and try to believe them myself. But, Zen sayings don't actually do anything or CHANGE anything. But, they are a great place to start. You have [...]
"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself." - Marilyn Monroe Although intuition is nature’s way of telling you something it wrong, it doesn’t always mean you should follow it or that you can. Sometimes it means learning something you need to learn. What if your intuition is right, but, you have a journey to take? What if following your intuition allowed you to skirt around the hard parts. Have you [...]
"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love." - Walter Savage Landor There are so many self-help articles, books, blogs and dating coaches talking about self-love and how you have to have self love before you can find a partner, be your best self, get the right job, make your way in life. Self-love this. Self-love that. But, what exactly is self-love and how do you find it [...]
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. —Oprah Winfrey What exactly is the Law of Attraction (LOA)? For those of you who have never heard of the Law of Attraction the basic premise is that Like Attracts Like. The fundamental concepts of the LOA are theoretical and scientific in nature. Basically, we are all energy. [...]
