It's not your fault

The path of integration does not flee anxiety but endures it, in order to recuperate those parts of the psyche which split off and returned to haunt us in projected symbolic form. – David Loy

The past is not done with us

When unresolved issues are writing our life story, we are not our own autobiographers; we are merely recorders of how the past continues, often without our awareness, to intrude upon our present experience and shape our future directions. – Daniel Siegel, MD

Do you think there's a heaven?

I always used to think that Heaven is a place for people who spent their whole life doing good, but it isn’t. God is too merciful and kind to make a decision like that. Heaven is simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth. They told me here that people who kill themselves return to live their life all over again, because the fact that they didn’t like it the first time doesn’t mean they won’t fit in the second time. But the ones who really don’t fit in the world wind up here. They each have their own way of getting to Heaven. – Etgar Keret

This is how it starts, not with a bang

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Despair/Happiness - The Mouse Trap



This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

Breaking Down the Walls of Sadness

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Fractured Sense of Self

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. – Marianne Williamson

Love your suffering, don't suffer your love

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. – Herman Hesse




Why would you want to miss out on all that prime suffering?

Struggling with Emotions

Fear, anger, doubt, tears, guilt and depression are all emotions that we’ve experienced and will experience. Some, even today, may feel completely overwhelmed by one or several of these emotions. The challenge for us ... is not IF you’ll struggle with these, it’s HOW you’ll struggle that makes all the difference. – Psalms 3