The Art of Learning to Wait I’ve started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you …
There’s nothing better than feeling connected, to bond, whether we’re physically in a group, a church, a synagogue, an Ashram, a meeting, a picnic, a family meal, a celebration. We’re humans who thrive on being “part of” and enjoying a feeling of belonging. It’s in our DNA. The reason rehabilitation treatment clinics work so well …
RESCUING OURSELVES No one likes a Martyr. How do we feel around martyrs? Guilty Angry Trapped Negative Anxious to get away! Somehow, many of us have developed the belief that depriving ourselves, not taking care of ourselves, being a victim, and suffering needlessly will get us what we want. It is our job to notice …
“South African drug mule Nontando Pendu who was imprisoned for nearly 10 years in Thailand after she was caught with 48 bags of heroin strapped to her chest, says she plans to be a human trafficking activist now that she is a free woman. Pendu, who is from Welkom in the Free State, was granted …
Smoking marijuana releases serotonin, a chemical in the brain that triggers a feeling of pleasure. When someone smokes regularly the brain becomes used to higher amounts of serotonin production, so when they quit and production drops they experience mental withdrawal from the dependence on the previously increased levels of serotonin and the pleasure it brought. …
What Are You Resisting Most? Be open to the whole journey, all parts of it. Is there a feeling, a person, a thought, a project that you have been avoiding? Is there some part of your life that you’re refusing to deal with or open up to? Is there something you’re resisting, something that makes …
Here’s a quote by author John Holt: “The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how do we behave when we don’t know what to do.” What if our capability is determined not so much by what we know, what we’ve mastered, but by what we do at …
“You do not have all knowledge and all wisdom without it unfolding gradually from within. Life is a constant unfoldment. When you were a child, you had to learn certain fundamental lessons. When you put your hand out to touch the fire, you were told that it was hot and would burn you. …
