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You can’t truly enjoy a sunset if you’re wishing night would never come. You can’t truly savour a kiss if…
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Sometimes we have certain issues from our past that we feel like we haven’t quite moved on from. Something feels…
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As we go about daily life, alot of our behaviour is compelled by a deep desire to be admired, to…
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Have you noticed that when people die, their eulogies celebrate the person very differently from the way we define success…
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We tend to take a lot of other people’s behaviour personally, whether it’s someone who pulls out in front of…
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We live within a culture that promotes material success, individual achievement and a perceived ‘specialness’ as the highest values. It’s…
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For many of us, our sense of self-worth is based on external factors. For instance, we might think about what…
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Recently, I was reminded of the powerful practice of asking the question, “What would love do?” in times of decision…
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As we travel through life, we tend to accumulate a lot of conditioning and all kinds of baggage along the…
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Today I’m going to share with you what I like to call my ‘mantra of understanding’ Adopting this mantra and…
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We don’t often talk about love when we talk about mindfulness, but in fact love is such an integral aspect…
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So often in life we become quite fixated on the idea of improving ourselves. And I think when people first…