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Why pray? What if I don’t believe in a God? Does prayer even work? What does prayer do? You don’t need to believe in God to pray. Prayer is not intended to “work” or “achieve” anything. Prayer does not “do” anything. You don’t “have to” pray… it is not a chore or a duty. PrayerContinue reading “Practicing Gratitude”

“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again.Continue reading “Healing comes…”

                   “I have done my best today, and the rest – I let go”… So much has come at me today, so many tasks, challenges, people… I have met everything as best I could, And what I have missed, I let go… I let my feelings come and honor them as best as I amContinue reading “I have done my best today…”

“Joy  and Happiness arise from letting go. Please, sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go.” Thich Nhat Hanh “Things” that deprive us of our freedom and thatContinue reading “Letting go…”

Sometimes what looks terrible can actually become a new opportunity… Or what seems the end of the world becomes the beginning of a new way of living… When we are in these transition times grieving the known that has come to an end And facing the unknown that we have not met nor begun toContinue reading “No Matter What- Love Yourself!”

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?” Thich Nhat Hanh “I am here for you”  is probably the most loving sentence we can say to another person, and then stop what we are doing, and practice being present. We don’tContinue reading “If you love someone…”

“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those thingsand make them bloom?” Thich Nhat Hanh The patterns of our society are to always focus on what is wrong:Doctors screen for pathologies, therapists diagnose mental illnesses,news reporters only focus on traumatic and catastrophicContinue reading “Touching the positive…”

“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.” Thich Nhat Hanh Our culture is very future oriented. Everything has to be strategically planned: Children’s education and career have to be outlined while they are still in Kindergarten. Children grow up with the stress of having toContinue reading “The best way…”

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” Thich Nhat Hanh Sometimes we think that what we know is all there is. The ways that our families treated us, or our classmates, or intimate partners, those become the templates with whichContinue reading “Surprised by Joy”

“If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let it in.” Thich Nhat Hanh When we identify with “what we know” and with “who we know” and our sense of self and idea of truth shrink down to the size of ourContinue reading “The Obstacle of Knowledge”