No Person Is 100% Healed
How I Found my True Self in the Space Between my Thoughts
“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.” ~Eckhart Tolle
Everything changed the moment I learned I was not my thoughts.
There I was, reading Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, when I read this line: “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
I felt a shift. Wait, what?!? How can …
Love Isn’t About Being Chosen
“Feeling safe in someone’s energy is a different kind of intimacy. That feeling of peace and protection is really underrated.” ~Vanessa Klas
The first time I said, “I love you” to a romantic partner, I was met with silence.
Nine months into what I believed was a deep, mutual relationship, I felt certain we were on the same page. But when the words left my mouth, he froze. No words back. No reassurance. Just silence. The next thing I knew, he disappeared for weeks, leaving me sitting in the wreckage of my own vulnerability. I was left questioning everything—why …
How Slowing Down Helped Me Reclaim My Dreams
“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” ~Lily Tomlin
“Are you the owner?” asks, well, yet another customer at our local Italian eatery.
“Nope—I’m just old!” I reply, all sheepish but pleased.
It’s true. At fifty, I’m not exactly your classic, college-struggling part-timer.
Actually, I’m the oldest employee at our restaurant—the staff “mom,” if you will. I’ve been at this serving gig three years now and haven’t looked back. Which might seem weird considering how I got here in the first place. What a contrast to the world I once lived in.
I co-owned a financial services company with my …
Finding Light in the Shadows of an Invisible Illness
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus
Life has a way of throwing us curve balls when we least expect them.
For years, I had been managing the usual ups and downs of life when I was blindsided by a diagnosis that would forever change the way I lived: psoriatic arthritis. It’s one of those illnesses that most people don’t quite understand because it doesn’t always show on the outside. I looked fine, but inside, my body felt like it was on fire. The pain was constant, an unwelcome …
Free Offer: One year of the Happier Meditation App
Since you follow Tiny Buddha, I’m guessing you might be familiar with the benefits of meditation and perhaps have already experienced many of them yourself.
I first found meditation through yoga, which I initially started at a gym solely because I was curious.
I didn’t know then that meditation can help with depression, anxiety, stress, and insomnia (all of which I’ve experienced); that it can literally rewire the brain to help with healing from trauma (also a battle I know very well); or that it can help prevent and heal numerous physical conditions.
Now here I am, over two decades …
How 10 Days of Silence Brought Me Perspective and Peace
“Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equanimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.” ~S.N. Goenka
I just spent ten days sitting in absolute silence with about 100 strangers, time I previously thought I should’ve spent networking and applying for jobs as an unemployed twenty-something with little savings and no assets, living in a completely new country with no network or job prospects.
There were no conversations, no eye contact, no listening to music, no exercise, no reading or writing—just silence, with twelve hours of meditation …
Tiny Buddha’s 2025 Day-to-Day Calendar Is Now Available for Purchase
Hi friends! I’m excited to share that the 2025 Tiny Buddha Day-to-Day Calendar is now available for purchase!
Uplifting and healing, this calendar offers daily reflections from me, Tiny Buddha contributors, and other authors whose quotes have inspired and encouraged me.
Featuring colorful, patterned tear-off pages, the calendar is printed on FSC certified paper with soy-based ink. Topics include happiness, love, relationships, change, meaning, mindfulness, self-care, letting go, and more.
Here’s what Amazon reviewers had to say about the 2024 calendar:
“I love how the quotes are diverse and relevant, offering something for everyone regardless of where they …
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