Once I accepted that I will sometimes have dark and negative thoughts, I felt relieved to just be. I understood they don’t define me.

Forgive me, children,

in my stained-glassed pride
I tried to hold us all together,
masking a disfigurement of peace—

For millennia, the feminine energy has been seen as weak and inferior. As a result, it’s been suppressed and dismissed in many cultures and societies.

In our attention-deficit era, cultivating a new and lasting relationship may seem challenging or even impossible for many singles.

I was looking for a way to gain insights, a way to cultivate higher human capacity, and I chose to go to Zanskar, the oldest Buddhist valley in the world.

Simple, practical and applicable wisdom taught to us in childhood still stands in our sophisticated (and complicated) modern world. It seems to me, as I look around, many of us have forgotten these valuable lessons.

Meditation has really softened me without making me soft, in terms of my personal goals and aspirations. I don’t feel the need to be right or to convince other people to incorporate what I say into their lives.

Fear is the reminder of boundaries not yet crossed. It defends against irreversible error by reminding each person what he cannot do and preventing him from moving where he is not ready to.

Despite what we already know, which is perfection doesn’t exist, we strive anyway. When, in fact, perfectionism is a true limitation.

Before you invite wonderful new things into your life, consider letting go of some old items that no longer serve you first, along with the old stagnant energy that is attached.

There have been a great deal of conversations about Fear being a negative emotion, an obstacle to our success. We have created a fear of having fear.

In some way or another, we were all probably shamed for our sensuality or sexuality. We were all shamed for our innate, natural biological urges.

I’ve known all my life that the path the world would choose for me could never satisfy me, but I couldn’t see any viable alternatives until I took steps to begin exploring the world without a plan or preconceptions of how my life was supposed to go.

Happiness is one thing we cannot get enough of. We want happiness in all magnitudes and in all areas of our lives.

I believe teachers become teachers because they’ve got something to offer, and I get great satisfaction helping others achieve their goals. Pretty soon that ripple becomes bigger and bigger and we create a world we really want to live in.

My family wasn’t exactly the normal everyday family that was simple, down to earth, and focused on being there for each other. Since our immigration to the U.S. my parents lost their stability and struggled very hard to reestablish themselves in a foreign country they knew nothing about.

Sometimes the very idea of permanence is what keeps us stuck in a loop of self-pity which perpetuates the feeling of loneliness.

The dictionary definition of loneliness simply states: Feeling sad or unhappy because one has no friends or company. However, anyone who has experienced more than a few days of loneliness can probably attest it’s never as simple and straightforward as that.

Instead of asking “Why me?” start asking “Why not me?” This simple shift in perspective will help you see yourself in a different light. If you are passionate about a subject and have much to share, why not be the one to share it?

Feeling more comfortable in the bedroom starts long before you are in bed with someone. Whether you are single and mingling or in a long-term relationship, we all want to embody confidence in the bedroom.