Today's Public Service Announcement: Change your language, change your mind. The word 'dark' does not mean negative. There's positive energy and negative energy. Dark is all-encompassing. Light is illuminating. Black is not negative. Black is the color from which all colors are born.
Yes, there is slavery in America as well as in most other countries in the world. Why would people buy and sell other human beings? Greed, profit, gender discrimination, cheap labor force are some of the reasons.
In some parts of our country and other countries, a girl is more likely to be raped than to learn how to read. Every year, 60 million girls are sexually assaulted at or on their way to school.
“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
How can you be well, how can you know peace, if you are always busy? Always rushing?
If your days are blurring one into the other, if you are exhausted and defeated in spirit, or lost and no longer certain of your path, then stop!
If you can't see what you're looking for,
see what's there.
One of the most difficult things for us to accept is that beneath all our dreams and disappointments, we live and breathe in abundance. It is hard when in pain to believe that all we ever need is before us, around us, within us. And yet it is true.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
As human beings we avoid suffering and pain. It is natural that we are drawn to comfort and security. However, pain is inevitable. Buddha stated this directly when he is said life is suffering. However, Buddha also stated that suffering, and life is impermanent.
i'm afraid
to
love
for fear
of pain
so I live
in the
pain
of
loneliness
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