Posts tagged with “wisdom”
How I’m Learning to Live with Anxiety, Not Against It
“Your anger? It’s telling you where you feel powerless. Your anxiety? It’s telling you that something in your life is off balance. Your fear? It’s telling you what you care about. Your apathy? It’s telling you where you’re overextended and burnt out. Your feelings aren’t random, they are messengers. And if you want to get anywhere, you need to be able to let them speak to you and tell you what you really need.” ~Brianna Wiest
For half of my life, anxiety has been my constant companion. I went from a confident, fiery, and fearless girl to a woman plagued …
It’s Never Too Late to Change: How to Reinvent Yourself in Midlife
“Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.” ~Unknown
Five years ago, as I approached my fortieth birthday, I was deeply dissatisfied with my life.
I resolved to change everything: to leave San Francisco, where I’d lived for nearly a decade, and to shift my career trajectory, finally committing to my passion—writing.
I also vowed to address my intimacy issues in friendships and romantic relationships. This desire led to countless online dates and deeper introspection, particularly regarding the impact of my mother’s death when I was a teenager and the emotional …
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 …
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 …
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