“I truly attained absolutely nothing from complete, unexcelled enlightenment!” – The Buddha   Spiritual awakening is not a special feeling, state, or experience. It is not a goal or destination, somewhere to reach in the future. As the Buddha was trying to tell us (though few actually listened), it is not a superhuman achievement or attainment. You […]

“Relationships do not cause pain and unhappiness.  They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.”– Eckhart Tolle   Your feelings, the energies alive in your body right now, were not ’caused’ by anyone else, and nobody else can take them away. Nobody else is responsible for your feelings. This realisation can […]

                “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” – Buddhist Proverb   Your pain, your illness, your present discomfort, is nothing to be ashamed of. It is not a sign of your failure, nor a punishment, nor a test, nor even ‘bad luck’. It is neither meaningless nor the meaning of your life. […]

Let people go through what they have to go through in the present moment! They are tired and they want to rest. They are exhausted from the fight, from the pretence and the lies, from having to hold everything in and hold everything together and hold everything up, and great waves of energy are now […]

   Here’s something that may be hard to hear: Jealousy is never about the other person, it’s always about YOU – YOUR feelings of being ignored, unappreciated, unseen and unloved, and underneath all of that, your frustrated desire to control others – what they do, what they want, how they are received, who loves them […]