Who are Your Teachers? There are teachers everywhere, who do you allow to teach you? I spent many years in an orphanage with the Sisters of Mercy. They were not, shall we say the sisters of mercy, in Leonard Cohen’s song… In the midst of their severity towards...
When we fall in love, feelings of aloneness are left behind and we merge together as if two pieces of a puzzle are moving securely into a place of belonging. The state of oneness or merging draws us out of our protective shells, and for most of us our fears of opening...
“Give sorrow words: The grief that does not speak whispers the oe’r fraught heart, and bids it break.” (Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Macbeth, 1892) Divorce is a major loss that does not get fully respected in our society. Some people find it harder to resolve...
“There is more to life than increasing its speed” (Gandhi & Desai, 1957) Life can be likened to a deep forest and on occasion we get lost in creating our path through it. If we are determined to find our way, it is necessary to face the fears and doubts that are...
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Rainer Maria Rilke In “The Road Less Travelled”, Scott Peck says the God of our youth is a second hand one. Just like family recipes, passed down and nobody questions the...
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Do you want to be 87 on your death bed saying I wish I had risked more back then – it would have made a difference in the quality of my life. Many times when we have a dream, a vision, we...
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