“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~Jim Rohn I used to think tiredness was a personality trait. I was the person who could work fourteen hours, sleep five, and do it again. I wore my exhaustion like armor. It proved I was serious. It...

‘When we practise Buddhism, we are doing what the Buddha did.’ Geshe Tashi Tsering

“Anxiety isn’t you. It’s something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.” ~James Clear Years ago, I had a panic attack while driving across a bridge, and I thought I might die that day. Suddenly my heart started pounding. My breath became...

‘The precepts are a shortcut for entering the Buddha gate.’ Bassui Tokushō

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” ~Søren Kierkegaard I didn’t lose her all at once. I lost myself first—slowly, quietly, in the way that only happens when someone you trust makes you doubt everything you think and feel. She was magnetic when...

In this loud and often overstimulating world, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed at times. This can be triggered by things around us or by what we are experiencing within. When this happens to me, I feel irritable, anxious, or on edge, and often find myself wanting to...

‘There’s probably nothing more beautiful in this world than people relying on and trusting one another.’ Beopjeong Sunim

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” ~Ernest Hemingway My grandmother had just died. My sister and I had come from the room where her body still lay, and we were standing in the elevator in silence when the doors slid...