“Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” This past week for me has brought extremely tragic and sudden news. In the past, I would have simply allowed myself to be devoured by my pain. I would have isolated myself and decided that no one could possibly understand my sadness – that I and I…

  “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera This quote…

  Do not dwell in darkness like a night bird prey for the monsters of your imagination. Get up and seek the light, look towards the sun. – Rumi Recently, I got some devastating news and I found myself immediately slipping into what one of my friends fondly dubbed “catastrophizing.” I imagined the worst scenarios…

  “A man once told Buddha, ‘I want happiness.’ The Buddha replied, ‘First remove the “I”, that is ego. Then remove the “want”, that is desire.  And now all you are left with is Happiness.’” -Anonymous This reminds me that happiness is always a choice. The only things standing between me and happiness is my…

  When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us. –Helen Keller Recently, I noticed that when a change happens in my life (or doesn’t happen the way I want it to),…