Stories of Black Women
There is a common story in Buddhism about a scholar who went to talk to a Zen master. The scholar spends most of the time talking over the master, basically showing off. The master eventually starts pouring tea for the scholar but doesn’t stop pouring. When the tea fills the cup and starts to overflow …
Behind your strong why, you will find the “how”. You will push yourself to be better every day if you have a strong desire pushing you from the inside. The failures you endured are road maps to the improvement of your skills. Your path seems long, so far. But you know that you cannot be …
Love IS NOT: Just talk. Expecting something from others without giving yourself. Sitting in your couch and just saying ‘I love you’. Pride. It is not you saying ‘you have not given me something, so I am not giving you anything’. Love is not tit for tat. A quid pro quo. Love is not (I …
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It starts with you trying to have the last word, a single sentence was thrown out there to attack that person or a verbal attack that has the intention of making you feel good about yourself and the other person bad. Out of this intention, an argument is born. You forget that the other person …
No one else is responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and actions Too often, we lie to ourselves and others – about the reason that is making us mad or out of control. We blame others when we are the only ones responsible for the way we are feeling. If we don’t look in the mirror, …
Seawater takes a purifier to change it into something beautiful. · If you are excited to change your ways and better your relationships, what good will that do if you do not take action on your excitement? · If you are excited by the lesson you found in the seminar you just attended, but you …
The other day, I took a train to where I work. Inside the train I noticed a man clutching a Bible and shouting to all to listen to him. He was yelling: “You must listen to me, otherwise all of you are going to hell.” He raised his index finger and pointed it at every …
Displaying your negative emotions out there. Expecting anyone (be it your romantic partner, your colleague, your friend, your family) to receive you in open arms when you are not in control of your emotions is like buying something from the supermarket and putting it in your bag and expecting something else in your bag when …
You have probably heard of the butterfly story. The author of the story is not known, but many authors have given their version of it with slight variations in the narrative. Here is the story: A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, …