Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in.
Forget them as [...]
The heart in love remains soft and sensitive. But when you’re hell-bent on
getting this or the other thing, you become ruthless, hard, and insensitive. How
can you love people when you need people? You can only use them. If I need you
to make me happy, I’ve got to use you, I’ve got to manipulate you, I’ve [...]
Stumbling on Happiness
By Daniel Gilbert
Are we just too stupid to be happy? Psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals some of the common mental mistakes that defeat our search for happiness.
Daniel Gilbert says we get in the way of our own happiness because we don’t understand how our mind works and the tricks it plays on us. The [...]
Continue reading about Shambhala Sun – Stumbling on Happiness
“To forget means to aver from memory, to refuse to dwell-in other words, to let go, to loosen one’s hold, particularly on memory.
To forget does not mean to make yourself brain-dead. Conscious forgetting means letting go of the event, to not insist it stay in the foreground, but rather allow it to be relegated to [...]
Continue reading about Conscious Forgetting – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Jealousy can be a consuming fire in the mind, a state of great suffering. The starting place for working with it, a place that many people neglect, is seeing it, recognizing it, and feeling it without condemnation or judgment. Condemning or judging only feeds it. If we condemn ourself for being jealous, we simply strengthen [...]
