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Practicing forgiveness lightens our load. It is not a matter of right or wrong. Simply acknowledge the trauma associated with our hurts, and release them. You have to try many times before you get some traction. Usually forgiveness is a solo activity. It is not placing blame. It doesn’t mean that the other person is “right” and we are…

What about this theory. The fear of not being enough. The fear of being 'too much', are exactly the same fear. The fear of being you.

Nayyirah Waheed

Photography Vintage…

Change is the natural way of things. That is why monks and nuns turn over their tea cup after drinking their tea. They don’t know which will come first, the next tea or the next life. Death is like tossing out a worn-out pair of clothes. When our body wears out, we take a new one. We reincarnate. Advanced practitioners actually…

That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.…

Our life is short. Before we know it, we have moved on to a new life. That is why Buddhist monks and nuns turn their tea cup over after a meal. We don’t know which will come first, the next cup of tea, or the next life! Panic is not necessary. It can be a pause to celebrate the time we have in this life, and direct it towards meaning.…

Strange face, with your eyes

So pale and sincere

Underneath you know well

You have nothing to fear

For the dreams that came to you when so young

Told of a life

Where spring is sprung

You would seem so frail

In the cold of the night

When the armies of emotion…

.. Lúghnasadh celebrates the fruition of the year’s work. Most of the food that could last the winter has been stored, and people are preparing for Autumn and Winter to settle in. Lúghnasadh / Lúnasa is a time to enjoy the fruits of the summer, the harvest, the sun in her glory and the bounty. It is a time to rejoice with gratitude at the hard work. To embrace in the moment the abundance that life has to offer.

Letting in the Harvest at Lúnasa symbolizes the letting in of life, of eros,…

"Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. To work through and complete grief means to face our feelings openly and honestly, to express or release our feeling fully, and to tolerate and accept our feelings for however long it takes for the wound to heal. We fear that once acknowledged, grief will bowl us over. The truth…

"There is a mystery about rivers that draws us to them, for they rise from hidden places and travel by routes that are not always tomorrow where they might be today. Unlike a lake or sea, a river has a destination and there is something about the certainty with which it travels that makes it very soothing, particularly for those who've lost…

Tibetans and well-wishers from Switzerland and neighboring countries welcome HHDL during his brief stopover in Zurich, Switzerland on June 22, 2024, before he continues his journey to New York.

The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice.

The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed.

But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.

The Truth, furious, climbed out of…

Und der Mut ist so müde geworden

und die Sehnsucht so groß.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Bild: "Sehnsucht" von Heinrich Vogeler

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And courage has become so tired

and longing so great.

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throw away the idea

that healing is forgetting

the real result is no longer

reacting to old triggers

with the same intensity as before

the memories are still there

but they do not have

the same power over your…

Late in May as the light lengthens

toward summer the young goldfinches

flutter down through the day for the first time

to find themselves among fallen petals

cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows

of the garden beside the old house

after a cold spring with no rain

not a sound comes from…

Fear can accumulate in our body, causing stress and tension. Rest is a precondition for healing. When animals in the forest get wounded, they find a place to lie down, and they rest completely for many days. They don’t think about food or anything else. They just rest, and they are able to heal themselves quite naturally. When we humans become…

At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades…I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination…These people are with me. It’s just a stage of your life when the death of people doesn’t banish them out of your consciousness, They’re part of the light in your head.'

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CLOSING Cycles 2023:

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.

Closing cycles,…

One of my best memories of Christmas Eve was when I was a young child of six or seven.

My father was visiting his uncle in the nearby village. When he returned, it was dark, and he wore his winter coat. He said he saw Santa Claus making his way over the road as he was visiting the…

My favourite fairy tale - "The Snow Queen"-

'I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which…

“I see my beauty in you,

I become a mirror

that cannot close its eyes to your longing.

My eyes wet with yours in the early light.

My mind every moment giving birth, always conceiving, always in the ninth month, always the come-point.

How do I stand this?

We become these words we say, a wailing sound…