Why do you seek
As though
I am lost

What is Love? What it is not is fear, for fear triggers separation and isolation, which then triggers self-inadequacy, self-superiority, self-righteousness, self-judgment, judgement of others, anger, and unforgiveness towards self and others, and it goes on. Imagine all that from just one emotion we call fear. Fear is like a domino effect.

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