Our happiness depends on us, on our way of responding to events, not on other people. Our suffering also depends on us. Knowing this, we no longer blame or complain; we are determined to begin anew with ourselves. Because another opportunity is presenting itself.

— Thich Nhat Hanh. “In Love and Trust”

We are not stardust, we are light! Our form and all the other stuff around us and in the universe are matters that materialized from the source, light. So we are, in French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s words, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

We all tend to react to what the Internet spoon-feeds us. It has become mindless and habitual. I am no different. We are all doing our best to navigate.

“Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.”

— Chögyam Trungpa

Do we need a new year to let go and move on? When you think about it, the new year is just a change of mindset. It is a conscious shift in perspective.