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There are some people who can connect in a fantastic way with others or a crowd. Some connect in a flamboyant way using a lot of movement, hand gestures and stories. Some have an intense style, others have a funny style. Some have an intellectual style, sophisticated style, simple, erratic, loud, refined, aggressive or soft …
Do you know people who have hurt you? Do you know people who hurt everybody? Why do they do it? Maybe because they are cruel, evil, uncaring. Have you hurt people? Why do you do it? Maybe you think you don’t. But others have told you you do. Your name crops up in their list …
Can you think of someone who you really hate or are angry at? Maybe because of how they are, what they did to you, or said to you, or to someone you care about. Maybe its a person, a political leader, an ideology, a community, a parent, a relative, a colleague, spouse, ex-spouse a boss. …
Have you known some quirks about yourself which you wanted to change – but cannot? Maybe you speak hurtingly, maybe you criticise, maybe you are oversensitive, maybe you are a little more lazy, maybe you are easy to anger. You know it but still don’t change. And end up affecting others – many of whom …
Do you feel that your children, your spouse, your loved ones do not really share their fears with you? Have you wondered why? Generation gap, differences in values and all that is fine. But we are not asking why you cannot solve, but why won’t they even share? Why this ‘distance’? Why the hesitation? One …
Suffering is unnecessary, but still extremely natural. Nothing to be embarrassed about. This can be difficult, especially in spiritual circles if suffering is downplayed a lot. Imagine a 4 year old crying desperately because his toy broke. “It’s just a toy!” True. The crying is unnecessary, but still extremely natural. The suffering is very real …
Have you wondered why we love babies and toddlers when they are smiling…or angry…or sad? They have this full presence no matter how they are feeling. When adults feel angry, they are also thinking “But is it the right thing to do? Does that make me a bad person?” The anger is incomplete. If they …
To fear to do something is normal. And temporary. Justifying makes it permanent. “I feel nervous to speak on stage” is normal. You can feel afraid and speak anyway. You will sweat a little, tremble a little, and then say what you have to say. But if you add “…because as a kid, I was …
Have you been in situations where your loved one is hurt, you feel bad, you try to change, but nothing seems to be good enough, and you cannot help but wonder if the problem is you or them? When someone is in pain, empathy is feeling bad FOR them. Guilt is feeling bad ABOUT MYself …
One of the biggest lies sold to us is that the meaning of life is to to be ‘found’. ‘Discovered’. This would mean that the meaning is out there. Lying somewhere. Unchanging. Static. Waiting to be found. And yet, we are meaning creation machines. Reality just has a bunch of a neutral events. Like scattered …