Spirituality
“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ~Mary Engelbreit “So, what do you think?” my husband asked, the dinner table lit by the soft glow of the overhead light. He’d been talking for a while, and I knew I...
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” ~Akshay Dubey The realization came to me during a chaotic day at the Philadelphia public school where I worked as a counselor. A young student sat across from me, her...
‘Please consider this: right now, you have a body, a voice and a mind, don’t you? Of these, mind is the most important.’ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
“You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” ~Dan Millman For as long as I can remember, my mind has been a never-ending maze of what-ifs. What if I make the wrong decision? What if I embarrass myself? What if I fail? My...
Author and meditation teacher Kimberly Brown explores what wise engagement looks like, offering compassionate advice on how to avoid falling into despair, practice non-hatred even for difficult people, and use your actions to benefit the world. The post Wise...
‘The easiest and most harmful place for practitioners to find themselves in is the discursive mind — discrimination, analysing, categorising this and that, good and bad, here and now.’ Jisu Sunim
I felt conflicted because there was a gulf between what I thought I should feel and what I was actually feeling. I should be grateful, I told myself, that I was a perfect match. It would significantly increase the chances that my brother’s body would not reject my...
When my niece’s invitation to her eighth birthday party said 1 p.m. at Skateland, I knew what that meant: Vietnamese Standard Time. Sure enough, my family strolled in late. Fifteen minutes late, to be exact. But that’s okay; by then, I’d already laced up my own...
Mindfulness brings many benefits, and perhaps the greatest of all is insight. Insight is knowing what is happening around us and inside us, why it is happening, and how to make it better. These insights help us let go of the confusions and misunderstandings that make...
In September 2009, as back-to-school season raged around the nation, I found myself on the ledge of my eighteenth-floor apartment window, about to jump off. Looking at the Midtown Manhattan traffic below, I became aware of many stereotypes I’d been reduced to...