What would you choose, to be right or to be happy?

If you observe every moment of your life, you´ll notice that you have the option between two choices: to be right - or to be happy.
The decision you take will determine your state of mind, not just at the moment of choice, but also the moments that follow. See every situation as happening FOR YOU instead of TO YOU and you give the grace to give the best of yourself when you receive that moment.

Listening with the silence of the heart

Listen with no judgements. Listen without answering with the voice in your head. Go beyond outer appearances and listen to the message within. Listen lovingly with the silence of your heart.

Exercises and practices on the art of mindful living from one of the best known and most respected Zen masters in the world today, Thich Nhat Hanh, poet, peace and human rights activist.

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work."
Nhat Hanh

Sharing your innermost fear.

When you share your innermost fear with others, it is both liberating and comforting. Feel liberated that your fear is not your own secret anymore. Fell comforted that others too have big fears that are just as irrational or uncommon. You are not alone!



 

Share your innermost fears with someone.

Sharing your innermost fears with someone else allows you to view them from a new perspective, much like turning on a light in a dark room, which can help you see that your fears are often just thoughts, not realities.

This shift in perspective can help you confront and manage your anxieties more effectively. In relationships, sharing fears and insecurities builds trust, empathy, and intimacy, creating a safe space where both partners feel understood and supported. It strengthens the bond by showing that you are willing to be your authentic self, which encourages reciprocal honesty.


This openness also helps others feel less alone, as hearing similar experiences can normalize their own fears and provide comfort. In professional or leadership settings, sharing your fears can inspire others to do the same, fostering a culture of honesty and psychological safety. It demonstrates strength and empowers others to face their own challenges. Even in difficult situations, such as sharing one’s faith, the fear of judgment can be overcome by trusting in a higher purpose, which often leads to positive outcomes. Ultimately, sharing your fears is not about changing your circumstances but about changing yourself—opening the door to healing, support, and growth. 

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Talking helps to roll the clouds away.

Talking helps to roll the clouds away by providing a pathway to process difficult emotions and reduce internal pressure, which can feel like a suffocating grey cloud. When you talk about your feelings, especially to someone who listens without judgment, you begin to make sense of your thoughts and gain clarity, which can lead to lasting solutions. This process is particularly effective because it allows you to externalize your internal struggles, reducing the overwhelming weight of rumination. Research suggests that putting feelings into words, known as "affect labeling," can diminish the emotional response of the amygdala, helping you become less stressed over upsetting events. 

Talking also helps break the cycle of negative thinking, offering a different perspective that can reveal reality is often less dire than feared. Furthermore, sharing your experiences fosters connection and combats the isolation that often accompanies low mood, reminding you that you are not alone. This sense of belonging and acceptance can be profoundly healing, helping to banish the critical inner voice that amplifies distress. 


Ultimately, talking provides a structured way to process emotions, offering relief and a sense of forward movement, effectively helping to roll the clouds away.

We all have mystical experiences.

People everywhere not only have the potential of having mystical experience, but in fact they are having this experience, and they simply do not know it. This is matter of perception, not of qualification. We are all qualified, but few of us perceive ourselves to be so. Because we do not perceive ourselves to be worthy enough to receive divine inspiration, we assume that we are not. And when we do receive it, we look right past it, we look through it, look around it, or we look right at it and we call it something else.  Neale Donald Walsch

Choice is a grace you give to yourself...


At each and every moment of time, you are given a choice. Even while facing problems or difficulties in life, you can choose wheather your actions are to be guided by fear or love. Guided by fear, you may become righteous, demanding and rigid. When love is guiding our hand, we are flexible and peaceful with what is. This way, we´ll get a taste of what happiness, peace and freedom truly is. Living your life with grace means making your choices with love and responsibility.

Be at Peace

Opening up to greater possibilities.......

Free yourself from all limiting beliefs. You have great dreams, visions and boundless talents. Open yourself to greater possibilities by releasing all limitations and know that you are able to achieve them.

Enlightenment.....


The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form. Eckehart Tolle

You are more.....


You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your outer form, you are connected with something so vast, so immeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be spoken of - yet I am speaking of it now. I am speaking of it now not to give you something to believe in but to show you how you can know it for yourself. Eckehart Tolle

Watcher of your mind....


Be present as the watcher of your mind -- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations.  Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.  Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future.  Don't judge or analyze what you observe.  Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction.  Don't make a personal problem out of them.  You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher. Eckehart Tolle