Relaxation

“Smile at your patterns.” ~Tsoknyi Rinpoche Partway through Eckhart Tolle’s Conscious Manifestation course, I furiously jotted down his teachings about challenges and obstacles to remind myself that they’re not only a normal part of the human experience but necessary for spiritual growth. “Yes!!!!” I wrote in agreement. When faced with difficulty, the human tendency is

“It’s easy to judge. It’s more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate. Through understanding, we grow.” ~Doe Zantamata If you don’t live in a cave, you have probably noticed two things. First, there are a lot of annoying,

“Give up being perfect, for being authentic. Give up the need to be perfect, for the opportunity to be authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.” ~Hal Elrod I’m not perfect. Not that this would come as any kind of surprise to anyone who knows me. But I often feel

“Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.” ~Spike Milligan Ever since I was a little girl, Disney films, story books, family, and friends unconsciously conditioned me to believe that the definition of happiness was a knight in shining armor galloping into my life to rescue me, sweeping me away, soothing all my

**If you’re reading this in in your inbox, click here to enter on the site! The other day, while scrolling through my Facebook feed, I came across the kind of uplifting story that makes my exhausted-mom-bleeding-heart melt. It was from a mother who’d decided to fly alone with her two-year-old and five-year-old, only to find

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ~Audre Lorde When you hear the word “productive,” you likely think of something positive: busting through that work assignment, making your house sparkly clean, or crushing your hobby. Productivity is what we all aim for, right? On workdays

“Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today. I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.” ~Mariska Hargitay At 6:07 pm on July 18, 2020, I

“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” ~David Benioff I can feel the night converting into day. Hooting owls pass the baton to chirping birds before flying

Hi friends! First things first, happy December. I hope you’re all enjoying the holiday season so far! I’m excited to share that I’ve launched my first ever day-to-day desk calendar, along with an eco-friendly planner, for 2022. The colorful daily calendar pages feature quotations (all from the Tiny Buddha blog) on happiness, love, relationships, change, meaning,

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” ~Joseph F. Newton “Oh my God, Mom…” she said with a verbal eye roll. “What?” I responded, sure that I had said too much or overshared like I normally do. I can’t recall what my daughter and I were discussing openly about while standing in

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” ~Maya Angelou How do you measure your self-worth? By the salary you make each year? By the number of lines on your resume? By the amount of people who follow you on social media? Now what if you never had to measure your self-worth again?

“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.” ~Charles Dickens “It’ll be okay, just…” If I could have taken that expression and thrown it at each person

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh My daughter began taking tumbling classes a week

“Survival mode is supposed to be a phase that helps save your life. It is not meant to be how you live.” ~Michele Rosenthal Childhood is the most cherished time for many. However, nobody gets to adulthood unscathed. We all go through incidents with our friends, family, and at school or otherwise that leave us

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?” ~Thich Nhat Hanh The only thing worse than not listening to someone is pretending to listen. Giving the vague murmur of agreement, or a quick nod to communicate “Yes, I’m listening, totally,” when

“No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.” ~Umar Ibn Al Khattab I don’t remember the exact day the message came through. It was from my son, Julian, and he needed to talk to me. It sounded pretty serious. He never really needs to talk to