“We can’t receive from others what they were never taught to give.” ~Unknown When I was younger, I believed that love meant being understood. I thought my parents would be there for me, emotionally and mentally. But love, I’ve learned, isn’t always expressed in the...

‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’ The Buddha

‘When we see through the illusion of self, we no longer act out of self-interest but from a place of genuine care for the well-being of others.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘Mind is empty, and while being empty, it still knows or experiences. Space is empty and does not know anything. That is the difference between space and mind.’ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

“It’s all right if you can’t remember. Our subconscious is spectacularly agile. Sometimes it knows when to take us away, as a kind of protection.” ~Kathleen Glasgow  A couple of weeks ago, I found myself crying in the park. It was supposed to be just a typical summer...