The Ways of the Soul

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Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 19, 2025 at 2:03am

"Anyone who makes you feel worthless IS worthless."

Amna Dhanani

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 12, 2025 at 3:17pm

Be the kind of person who is not afraid to ask someone if they are okay twice if they say they are, but look like they are not. Be the kind of person who smiles at people even if they do not smile back. Be the kind of person you wished for when no-one was there for you. Be the kind of person who is brave enough to stand alone in a crowd for what is right. Be that person because we need more people like that in the world.

Nikita Gil

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 12, 2025 at 3:16pm

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.

Robin Williams

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on December 9, 2025 at 12:12am

SO TRUE!

THANKS, LUNA ARJUNA!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 8, 2025 at 1:18pm

If you invite someone into your home and they start breaking things and insulting your decor, you don’t have to hate them, but you wouldn’t invite them into your home any more.

Boundaries are the same thing except your home is your mind. Your home is your heart. Your home is your time and your life. Uninvite the guests who don’t know how to treat your home with respect.

Zoe Zantamata
Art: Catrin Welz-Stein

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 7, 2025 at 5:43pm

If you’re left out, subtly insulted, mindlessly forgotten about or easily disregarded by the people you spend the most time with, you’re doing yourself an incredible disservice by continuing to offer your energy and life to them.
The truth is that you are not for everyone, and everyone is not for you. That’s what makes it so special when you do find the few people with whom you have a genuine friendship, love or relationship: you’ll know how precious it is because you’ve experienced what it isn’t.

Brianna Wiest
Art by Thomas Dodd

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 6, 2025 at 12:35pm

Notice who shows up when you have nothing to offer but yourself. Notice who stays when you stop performing. Notice who celebrates when you choose yourself.

Michell C. Clark
Art: Thomas Dodd

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on December 5, 2025 at 5:48pm

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 5, 2025 at 6:05am

'Slowing downwards' refers to more than simply moving slowly, it means growing down towards the roots of one’s being. Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways . . . . Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in one’s life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along.

Michael Meade
Art: Allison Adams

Comment by Eva Libre on December 4, 2025 at 2:16pm

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry, or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before.

Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker

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