Imagine we’re all born with an empty suitcase. 🧳 Over the course of your life, every unresolved issue or trauma turns into a potato that goes in the suitcase. Depending on how big the trauma was the potato might be a small or large one, or a big fucking pumpkin. 🎃 Eventually, your suitcase is full… so you start lugging another one around, filling that up with more potatoes of all shapes and sizes. 🥔 Maybe that one gets…
Throughout my career, I’ve met far more people who aren’t willing to take responsibility for what shows up in their life than those who are. People who love to take a victim stance and blame others for their actions. One of the biggest lessons in life is that you’re always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel. Nobody can make you feel or do anything – people will do what they do, and you can choose…
In the West we say “panic panic! Everything is out of control!” In the Buddhist world they say “relax relax! Everything is out of control.” I heard this quote on a podcast recently where they were talking about the current pandemic and increased fear and anxiety globally. While of course there are things that we can control, like our own personal hygiene, there is much we cannot. So instead of joining everyone else in panicking, do…
“Remember that what you are seeking is also seeking you”As a 15 year old, I used to completely do my own head in pondering philosophical questions.Why are we here?What happens when we die?I used to sit there and try and imagine what happens when we die – I couldn’t imagine not existing anymore, so what happens instead?Never not existing?Combine those thoughts with hormones.Yeah. HARD WORK.I knew what I saw around me wasn’t all there was.What I saw was you go…