Innocent Like a Child

The cumulative weight of responsibilities, disappointments and failed dreams often interrupts our ability to freely explore the world around us with a childlike freshness. Even though our experiences are tainted by preexisting notions, distorted expectations and rigid...

Unlimited

Class and nationality arguably impact the quality of our lives, but we all have an inalienable right to the entire range of human emotional experience. Though particular circumstances are sought after in order to create desired emotions, they’re not actually...

Don’t Distract Yourself

Living simply may seem boring if you’re identified with certain ideas about yourself related to educational pedigree, the car you drive, the house you live in or financial success. The more attached to outer trappings, the more you seek acknowledgment from...

Self-Created World

Some people are reluctant to embrace the fact that they are completely responsible for their experience of life. Many believe that outer circumstances like their job, where they live, their friends or their finances are the factors that determine how they feel....

Forgiveness Is For You

Carrying around the weight of perceived wrongs only increases your burden. Your ‘persecutors’ might not even know how you feel. You can tell them or even stop spending time with them but, either way, forgiving them benefits you. It frees you from the...

Who You Are

You are not what you’ve done, what you have or even how you behave. The last one is often perceived by others as who you are. While you are connected with all of these things, you are so much more. The less you identify with these more outward attributes of your...