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Mark Nepo, a recognized poet, inspirational writer, and spiritual teacher, defines the word trust as the ability to follow the heart. He considers that in order to develop personal trust we have to restore the ability to follow our heart. According to Nepo, trust is like the sun that is always there, even when we …
What is patience? There are multiple definitions, but here I am sharing my personal point of view: I believe patience is the capacity to accept trouble, delays, and difficult circumstances while staying calm. Easy to say, hard to achieve. One of the obstructions in the practice of meditation is aversion, and aversion includes anger. Anger …
Unconditional love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. It is healing and miraculous; there is no hurt it cannot heal, or turmoil it cannot calm. Now you could be wondering: Then, unconditional love is a solution to all problems in life? Yes; but is not an easy one. Unconditional love is …
Last week we discussed the Power of Letting Go, which is similar to surrender. However, there’s a difference; letting go is about being free of the suffering we create with our desires, attachments, and need of control. It’s about healing our emotional wounds. We cannot change our past, but we can heal it; and that’s …
The most common questions made by my meditation students are: What really means letting go? emptying our minds? What we need to let go, and why? These are great question because letting go is hard, and at the same time is easy. To let go we need to accept things as they are in the …
What do we do when we want to understand something right? This question brought me back to my schooling time. I remember that to understand a difficult subject, especially math, I would analyze the numbers, look at them from different angles, draw pictures of the problems, and figured it out what part of the numbers …
I will start a series of articles about eight (8) powers associated with the practice of meditation: The power of understanding * The power of patience The power of letting go * The power of trusting The power of surrender * The power of acceptance The power of unconditional love * The power of choice …