The Ways of the Soul

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Comment by Luna Arjuna 9 hours ago

When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.

Rumi

Comment by Luna Arjuna yesterday

Sometimes, just before achieving deep inner quiet, we experience grief from having to let go of the props of identity. We experience the feeling that we are nobody at all. We find ourselves crying, yet we do not feel sad. We simply allow our bodies to cry as they give up feelings of attachment to the old props. Now they seem to stand naked and defenceless before the mighty Cosmos. Then this passes and we feel relief. We are in harmony with the Cosmos. A great weight is lifted off.

Carol K. Anthony
Art: Antonio Mora

Comment by Luna Arjuna on Friday

After more than forty years of sitting with people in the depths of their lives, one lesson keeps returning.
When deep pain appears, people often tell the ones who are suffering, “That’s too much . . . too hot to handle.”
My response is simple: Then don’t try to handle it.
Feel it.
Be there.
Traumatized people do not need us to master their suffering. They need us to remain present with it. Simply to be there.
Healing often begins not through explanation or technique, but through the quiet courage of one human being staying real with another—feeling, witnessing, and not turning away.

Paul DeBlassie III
Art: Daniel Mirante

Comment by Luna Arjuna on Thursday

It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no-one can walk it for you.

Rumi
Sculpture by Lene Kilda

Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 10, 2026 at 5:03pm

People who have taken the time to heal properly, who have done the work on themselves, and who know their worth . . . don’t allow just anyone in any more. They will only allow in those who are capable of a genuine connection, with the same level of respect and emotional maturity that they bring.
Because once you’ve healed from someone’s lack of respect and emotional maturity, people no longer look good to you unless they really are good for you.

Mark Smith
Art: Andrea Kowch

Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 10, 2026 at 4:59pm

What we call grief is not simply pain.
It is love reorganizing itself through the body.
The heart is learning how to hold what it could not hold before. The nervous system is finding new pathways for something that once felt impossible to feel.
And slowly, often in ways we cannot see at first, something begins to reassemble from within.
Not the life we had before.
But a deeper life—one that is more rooted, more tender, and more true.

Matt Licata
Art: Tangled Muses

Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 5, 2026 at 5:27pm

Nothing in the field of mental health will do more good and reduce more harm than encouraging withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. The time is past when the focus in mental health was on what drugs to take for what disorders. Now we need to focus on how to stop taking psychiatric drugs and replace them with more person-centered, empathic approaches. The goal is no longer drug maintenance and stagnation; the goal is recovery and achieving well-being.

Dr Peter Breggin, MD [psychiatrist]

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on March 5, 2026 at 6:15am

Great advice!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on March 4, 2026 at 11:57pm

Observe yourself when you feel fear or anger. Focus on the feeling, not on what's caused it. Not the stimulus, the stimulation. Most strong reactions we feel are reactions to the past, not the present (if it's hysterical it's historical).

We will be more effective when we move beyond unconscious programming and respond from a place of peace. When we deal with information not inflammation.

Russell Brand
Art: Allison Adams

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on March 4, 2026 at 2:25am

SO TRUE!

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