Dharanyachellapandian

“Rock the boat of life in the middle of the sea!”
― Eleven Commandments of Life Maximization
― Eleven Commandments of Life Maximization
“A corporate executive realizes she is living according to what others expect of her, not what she wants for herself. Does she continue in the boardroom or does she embark on an uncharted journey of self-discovery?”
― Becoming a Life Change Artist: 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life
― Becoming a Life Change Artist: 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life

“The energies that make us act out of anger,fear,insecurity and doubt are extremely familiar. They are like an old,dark house we return to whenever things get too hard to handle.It feels risky to leave this house and see what's outside,yet we have to leave if we expect to be loved.
So we take the risk.We walk out into the light and offer ourselves to the beloved.This feels wonderful;it's like nothing we have imagined in our old,dark house.But when things get tough,we run back inside,we choose familiarity to fear and lovelessness over the vulnerability of love, until finally we feel safe enough to go back and try love again.
This is essentially the rhythm of every intimate relationship-risk and retreat. Over and over we repeat this rhythm,accepting love and pushing it away until finally something miraculous happiness. The old,dark house isn't necessary anymore.We look around, and we have a new house, a house of light. Where did it come from?How did we build it? It was built from the love of the heart.It has silently been weaving our higher and lower natures,blending fear,anger,survival and protection into the energies of devotion,trust,compassion and acceptance.”
― The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing
So we take the risk.We walk out into the light and offer ourselves to the beloved.This feels wonderful;it's like nothing we have imagined in our old,dark house.But when things get tough,we run back inside,we choose familiarity to fear and lovelessness over the vulnerability of love, until finally we feel safe enough to go back and try love again.
This is essentially the rhythm of every intimate relationship-risk and retreat. Over and over we repeat this rhythm,accepting love and pushing it away until finally something miraculous happiness. The old,dark house isn't necessary anymore.We look around, and we have a new house, a house of light. Where did it come from?How did we build it? It was built from the love of the heart.It has silently been weaving our higher and lower natures,blending fear,anger,survival and protection into the energies of devotion,trust,compassion and acceptance.”
― The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing

“All your troubles are caused by your head; your thoughts, your reasoning, your arguing, your obsessing and wondering.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Today, if you have one depressing thought in you, you will sit depressed. Why? The whole cosmos is going on phenomenally well today, but that does not matter. In your mind there is one thought – not too many, just one – that is bothering you, that will depress you and put you in the dumps.”
― Of Mystics & Mistakes
― Of Mystics & Mistakes
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