In this poem, Rumi reminds us to welcome unwanted thoughts and emotions as opportunities to grow.
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CLEAR ALL
A spiritual self-help guide teaching you the 12 principles that will transform your way of thinking and lead you towards living a better life.
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Despite our best-laid plans, life is difficult, and we sometimes experience anger, anxiety, frustration, and doubt. This emotional chaos can negatively affect the way we live our lives.
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Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
Usually, we are not, in fact, upset about the facts. We are upset about our interpretations of the facts, and particularly, when we take these facts to mean we are being attacked or rejected in some way.
The Stoics bring forth the theme of self-control on a regular basis. Epictetus, for example, spoke about abstaining from talking about vulgar things, and Marcus Aurelius points out that we should set limits to comfort and consumption.
When the path ahead is dark, how can we keep from stumbling? How do we make our way with courage and dignity? “Inside each of us is an eternal light that I call ‘the One Who Knows,’ ” writes Jack Kornfield.
In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated in these pages by Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry...
Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening.