Does contentment follow after certain conditions are met – or does (lack of) contentment lead to your conditions? Are we objects or subjects? I used to believe that our external circumstances were a given. That they formed an undeniable, unalterable reality entirely made up of facts that we can either…
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Feelings can never be “wrong” in and of themselves. They are what they are and exactly what they’re supposed to be: feelings. But that doesn’t always make them pleasant. Anxiety, unrest, sadness, grievance, fear – most of us would probably rather do without. That’s why we tend to do the…
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Life doesn’t wait for you to show up for it. No matter how happy or unhappy you are, how patient or impatient, how conscious or unconscious, it will continue with or without you. But that doesn’t leave you powerless. ‘Cause you can either undergo it all or act according to…
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Sometimes when you dance, your heart skips a beat or two… You get lost in the music, carried away by your partner, and your movement together becomes like ice to water and water to gas. Fluid, transforming, and…
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“Psycho.” That’s what someone recently called me when I finally decided to voice my values and act on them. Clearly, they were not being met in this argument either but the offender had a point. I had been denying my morals and beliefs around him and was even letting myself…
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Frequent self-inquiry and reflection can form a great starting point to make progress in any area of your life. But are you asking yourself the right questions? Regardless of what it is we seek to improve, we always start by identifying a current situation as less than optimal and then…
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