“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Continue reading
Personal Development
Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others
A balance between two extremes
First thing in the morning, pick three goals you want to accomplish. Each one should require some initiative on your part, activities that aren’t going to be completed if you merely go with the flow of the day. Continue reading
Turn your attention away from it by throwing yourself into work for others
Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children of it.
– THOMAS VAUGHAN
You are responsible for whatsoever you are.
If you are miserable, you are responsible.
Don’t throw the responsibility on anybody else, otherwise you will never be free of it.
Because how can you be free if I am responsible for your misery?
Then unless I free you, you cannot be free;
if it is in my hands.
And if it is in my hands,
it can be in somebody else’s hands.
Those who are with me have to understand,
howsoever hard and painful it is,
you and you alone are responsible,
for everything that is happening to you,
has happened to you, will happen to you. Continue reading
The Strength of Stillness – By Sri Aurobindo
There are two great forces in the universe, silence and speech. Silence prepares, speech creates. Continue reading
Karma – Action Arising out of Denial of the Present Moment
“Very often there is denial of what is happening in the present moment, not wanting it to happen, which includes what’s happening inside you at that moment, to completely say “yes” to whatever emotion may be there or whatever your inner state may be at this moment or to completely say “yes” to whatever the external situation may be at this moment. Continue reading
That Thing Which You Fight You Become
Surely that thing which you fight you become. If I am angry and you meet me with anger what is the result? More anger. Continue reading
Refusing to hurt anyone no matter how much you have been hurt. It is a great art…
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Continue reading
‘the shibumi seven’
These seven aesthetic qualities can guide the design of nearly everything, no matter if it is an action or an object. I call upon them to shape my life, to guide me in selecting the techniques I choose to teach, and to provide a framework for how I wish to build my business. Continue reading
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