From time without beginning, our ego clinging has caused us to wander in samsara; it is the root of all our sufferings, it is indeed the culprit. Considering others to be more important than ourselves, we should give up our self-cherishing attitudes and decide to act without hypocrisy, emu...
9. “We travel initially to lose ourselves, and we travel next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the glob...
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownles...
and to question who or what is really experiencing them. These realisations, which Buddhism calls the three marks of existence, are deeply healing. They are a big first step toward ending suffering.
even in the most tragic and desperate of situations, have control on how we choose to deal with these; in fact, those very choices are the things that actually make or break us, not the events. My sister’s death was a tradegy not only because she died so young – still very afraid...
Who will join us in our midst? What will be the joys, the sorrows, the moments we will remember? How will we show up for them? The other day, I looked through the photos on my phone, starting at January 1, 2024. I made two pages of notes of all the important events I had capt...
Nights were the hardest. It was at night when Boyd and the rest of the world were asleep that I would lay there in a medicated daze and my mind would wander. When I would fall asleep I would wake up in a nocturnal panic attack about every night. I’m claustrophobic and when I wake...
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. — Vikram Seth 59 Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself. — Sherry Argov 55 Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out...
Preferring Hard liberty, before the easy yoke Of servile Pomp. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield. The childhood shews the man, as morning...
If you are thinking, “how to find yourself when you are lost?”, then the first thing to do is to have a rest from everything—work, personal life and all worldly things. Give time to yourself to think why you seem lost. Is it because of overwork? Is it because you are not lead...