by Merci Gracia | May 9, 2015 | Freedom
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...
by Merci Gracia | Apr 10, 2015 | Freedom
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...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 29, 2014 | Freedom
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...
by Merci Gracia | Mar 7, 2014 | Choices, Freedom
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....
by Merci Gracia | Jan 9, 2014 | Forgiveness, Freedom
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...
by Merci Gracia | Nov 16, 2013 | Freedom, Self-Awareness
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...