Tag: personal growth

The Permission to Feel Our Own Bliss: Reclaiming what was never anyone’s to give

4 Nov 2025

We spend our lives waiting for permission to feel joy—opening and closing the gates of our own happiness at every sign of approval or rejection. But joy was never something to earn. It was always ours, flowing beneath the surface, waiting to be reclaimed by the only one who could ever unlock it: ourselves. … More The Permission to Feel Our Own Bliss: Reclaiming what was never anyone’s to give

The Ascent of the Inner Man: A meditation on fear, self-trust, and emotional sovereignty

21 Oct 2025

Fear of feelings is really fear of losing control — a lack of self-trust. We mistake emotions for commands, believing they dictate our actions. This Pathocrat’s trap breeds paralysis and doubt. The cure is not repression but recalibration: keeping small promises, acting despite moods, and gathering new evidence of self-trust. In doing so, we discover a space between feeling and action — the birthplace of freedom, responsibility, and inner strength. … More The Ascent of the Inner Man: A meditation on fear, self-trust, and emotional sovereignty

Living in the Pause: An Attitude of Playfulness Toward Change

30 Sep 2025

All real growth begins in the gap between stimulus and response. Not by controlling what happens, but by choosing how we meet it. Playfulness is what keeps that gap open—because play doesn’t trigger resistance the way protest does. It sneaks past the defenses of habit and makes change possible. … More Living in the Pause: An Attitude of Playfulness Toward Change

Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

19 May 2025

To be serene isn’t about managing and manipulating your environment into peace, for most often you yourself are the element of chaos, and your attempts at bringing peace is the very cause of disturbance.
Alternatively, one can find serenity by a simple act of reframing the will, the wish, and the goal:
If I want perfection to be the goal and wish that it’s the case, then by reframing what is as the perfect state of things, then the goal is already achieved and my wish instantly fulfilled. And if I will what already is, then I’m doing as I wish, for my wish, too, is what already is.
The cause of suffering is to wish things to be otherwise than they are, and that’s insanity to wish something that has already appeared in a certain form to have appeared differently. … More Spiritual Fragments: Play & Minding One’s Own Business

Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

13 Dec 2024

The true, creative affirmation is not the affirmation of the tongue but the affirmation of action, for only through action can things be brought into existence. 
Just for today, I’ll visualize how my best version would be acting today, and I act as if I’m already established in that version. … More Painting Your Best Self: Transforming Affirmations into Action

Exploring Authenticity: Perspectives from Jungian Psychology, Heideggerian Philosophy, and Sufism

21 Jun 2024

Rumi, a renowned Sufi poet, emphasized the importance of love and the heart in the quest for authenticity. For Sufis, the heart is the center of spiritual knowledge and wisdom. Authentic living involves purifying the heart, detaching from external identifications, and seeking a deeper connection with the divine. Divinity in its pure, metaphysical form is nothing but the living, eternal present, the indeterminate Being. … More Exploring Authenticity: Perspectives from Jungian Psychology, Heideggerian Philosophy, and Sufism

Make the Call

16 May 2024

That’s the dilemma: when you’re burning, you always call someone for rescue. You always WILL call one of these two people because you have faith in their powers whether you want it or not. All you have is a choice who to call: would you call on the force that integrates or the force that disintegrates. … More Make the Call