If you’re so smart, why aren’t you a rocket scientist?... You have high standards for yourself. Others are impressed with your accomplishments, you aren’t.
As I head into another year of my life, I hold on to one of my favorite quotes by spiritual teacher Ram Dass: "We are all just walking each other home."
It’s about holding ourselves with compassion, which is an antidote to codependency -- and hence, a way to get closer to the divine that always lives within you.
The lines and crevices in my hands speak of stories. I cannot remember how they began. I have no idea where they will end. I only know that I am them and they are me.
It is these stories which I know I must honor. These truths which I must bear witness to.
It can be easy to assume that the gap between where you are now and where you want to be in the future is caused by a lack of knowledge. This is why we buy courses on how to start a business or how to lose weight fast or how to learn a new language in three months. We assume that if we knew ...
We all know the story of the Tower of Babel. How the greed, the arrogance of human beings who sought to reach the realm of the gods, brought about their own destruction. How a community who once shared one language dissolved into many disparate, constantly warring groups who could not ...