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Peace is Within Oneself Quote by Ajahn Chah
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it...

Lucy Chan
Jun 41 min read
Inner Strength Quote by Pema Chodron
As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly...

Lucy Chan
Jun 41 min read
Live the Questions Now
In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where...

Lucy Chan
Jun 42 min read
Lumbricus Terrestris by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
On a day when the world is weighty, dark and dense with need, I want to be the earthworm that gives itself over to tunneling, its every...

Lucy Chan
Apr 131 min read
Quote by Dr Esther Boykin
“I like to [tell people to] do it before you get out of bed,” Boykin said. “Take three deep breaths, and then [ask yourself], ‘How do I...

Lucy Chan
Apr 81 min read
Quote by Jack Kornfield
Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. - Jack Kornfield

Lucy Chan
Jan 141 min read
Who Knows? By Tom Hirons
Who are you, between the early, sleepless morning and the brightest hour of your day? Who will you be, between your failings and the...

Lucy Chan
Jan 111 min read
Tired by Irene Sipos
Sitting across the aisle on the B train I look at the row of weary faces various shapes, sizes, colors, ages, a horizontal explication of...

Ethan Pollock
Dec 17, 20241 min read
Quote by Jane Hirshfield
I have been given this existence, these years on this Earth, to accept what has come into my lifetime — wars, loves, trucks, betrayals,...

Lucy Chan
Dec 5, 20241 min read
Ryokan 1758-1831
Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why...

Ethan Pollock
Oct 29, 20241 min read
How to Heal by Jeff Foster
Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced. It happens when the conditions are right. When there is just enough love,...

Lucy Chan
Oct 22, 20241 min read
Fundamentalism by Naomi Shihab Nye
Because the eye has a short shadow or it is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarter but you need your own...

Ethan Pollock
Oct 10, 20241 min read
Rumi 1207-1273
Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up...

Ethan Pollock
Oct 1, 20241 min read
The River Cannot Go Back by Kahlil Gibran
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...

Ethan Pollock
Sep 20, 20241 min read
Quote by Tara Brach
One of the great teachings in spiritual life is this: It doesn’t matter what is happening. What matters is how we respond. How we...

Lucy Chan
Sep 3, 20241 min read
The Summers Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean — the one who has flung...

Ethan Pollock
Aug 13, 20241 min read
Jealous of a Pond by Rabia of Basra (c. 717-801)
When God said, "My hands are yours," I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is...

Ethan Pollock
Jul 16, 20241 min read
Quote by Alice Walker
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry...

Lucy Chan
Apr 16, 20241 min read
Please Call me by my True Names- Thich Nhat Hanh
Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...

Ethan Pollock
Apr 2, 20242 min read
Quote by Pema Chodron
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace...

Lucy Chan
Mar 26, 20241 min read
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