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Using Attention to Get Over Hurt
Learn the art of directing your attention from hurtful and negative thoughts to happy and positive ones.
How to Get Over Hurt
When you discover your inner sanctuary, you become like the gentle stream. You keep moving.
Why Hurting is Easier than Healing?
Can a crushed flower be restored to its original state? No. Healing is not restoration but building anew.
Three Questions of Socrates
Ever questioned the source of your knowledge? Behind the door of conditioning a whole new world awaits you.
Self-Esteem and Weight Loss
A tree in autumn is as beautiful in spring. Your real worth is not how others see you but how you see yourself.
How to Start Losing Weight
Are you overweight? Take the simple staircase test to know if you actually need to lose weight.
Three Principles of Confrontation
Confrontation is not about putting the other person down or throwing them off balance.
Have I been a Bad Parent?
There is no categorical good or bad way of parenting. As long as you are honest, you are perfect.
Three Most Important Questions
If you asked yourself these questions, you might be living your life a bit differently. Read the story.
Life is a Struggle
Is life really a big struggle or is it a matter of perspective?
You are Not Weak
Even the hard coconut can break in one blow. It doesn't mean it's weak. It's vulnerable.
When They don’t Love You Back
What can you do when an apple rots? Matters of the heart are similar. Love is something like that.
What is Love?
The light of love is dependent on four conditions. Fail one and it flickers, fail two and it goes away.
Love or Attachment
On the tree of life are the cages of desires holding captive the birds of attachment. Love roams freely.
Dealing with Stress
A man was never stressed and this intrigued his neighbors. Read the story for more.
