When one seeks the completion of oneself in another human who’s also striving to become complete, the result is vanity. — The essential characteristic of a human being is that we all continuously in a transition of becoming who we really are. We all are born free, with no explicit instruction on how one must live, let alone the idea of what one should become at the end of this journey…

When you realize that a dragon is hiding somewhere, running away from it will only give it a chance to grow larger. — 2020 Sucks On New Year’s Eve, fires were spreading in Australia’s forests, a part of the disaster that later scorched an area of ​​more than 16 million hectares. On the third day of 2020, the US dropped an attack on Baghdad International Airport. It killed a top Iranian military officer, Major General…

And therefore, love is not a fixed happily ever after, but a constant growth that happened in contact with reality. — What is love? What kind of images emerges out of your psyche when you hear the word love? If you think that love is the feeling of empathy to a specific person, like to whom you wish to share all your desire, that this person is the one you can…

If humans cannot freely make decisions, how do we respond to the events in life? — We are faced with many choices in life; the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the words we say are all choices. We then seem to think that all of our decision will determine our future events. As if life is a labyrinth of choices whose direction is absolute…

When you can see all the differences and still capable of giving love, that’s compassion. — Honesty is an easy thing to do. But somehow, we still tend to choose dishonesty. Either because we’re reluctant to say what is right or we’ve given up and perceived that telling the truth will not drastically change things. Social pressure is one of the main reasons for this false…

Our political views, skin color, religion, or anything that gave us the illusion of separation are nothing compared to our connectedness. — When I was sick during my early childhood, I had these dreams that I can never forget. The first was the Earth rolling towards me. Yes, you read it right. The Earth is chasing me, and I am running with a fear of being smashed like a cockroach. The second…

Words are like the persona, the tip of the communication-iceberg. — “Akaal. Akaal. Akaal.” I whispered that mantra when I read the news that Ram Dass had died on December 22. He was a Harvard psychologist who popularized psychedelics with Dr. Timothy Leary in the early 1960s. Ram Dass, who was still known as Dr. Richard Alpert, went to India in…