What if this concept applied to our inner lives? It just crossed my mind. I was thinking about money and how using my savings can sometimes feel like I’m getting into dangerous territory. I can picture myself in a black pit where I’ll spend whatever time it may take me to save back some of…
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Challenge #1: Be present
Hard sometimes, right? It is a goal I have and that is quite –pardon me– present in our society. Be present. Thinking about this obviously makes me think about Zen and what little I learnt about it back in the day. That “fragmented knowledge” often swipes me when I experience something like a breakthrough. If…
Challenge #1: Ambivalence
noun [mass noun ] the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. Oxford Dictionary of English On a Saturday morning of a bank holiday. It’s pouring rain outside. I’m back and I’m wondering about the effect of the environment over our internal circumstances. I imagine that sometimes there’s the option…
Challenge #1: Habit formation
How do you get to writing more? You don’t have to dig deep or surf the web much to know that “practice makes perfect” and that you need to start and be consistent. Right now, I have a million habits I’d like to stick to. I’ve been making some progress, trying to establish a solid…
Determination
IT’S BEEN A LOT Welcome to the end of the world… Sorry, the end of 2020. Is it the end yet? Not really. Nevertheless, there’s already talk about the cancellation of yet another festivity here in Spain: Christmas. How many times have we cancelled plans, joys, new moments? Why? Because our government’s only solution is…
Summer reading: advice on writing by famous writer
“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.” On Writing, Stephen King During the course of this week, I’ve read a new type of book for me: On writing, by Stephen King. This book is “a memoir of the craft”, with the writer recounting some of his life experiences and how they…
Spill your blood
Have you ever felt like you are living a life that doesn’t quite suit you? That you are behaving and moving through your circumstances in ways that don’t do justice to your whole being? I feel like that right now. I know it is probably temporary, but I can tell (because of how painfully aware…
How to know your life purpose – or how to get one
What is your calling? What is the purpose of your life? Why are you alive? What is the value of your life? What makes life valuable to you? What is a life well-lived? How do you find meaning in life? So many questions we ask ourselves. Some of us, we ask them constantly. Almost every…
Las dimensiones del sentir
El mago apareció entre las sombras otoñales del bosque. Y te dejó escoger, es una decisión permanente, dijo, si ser una hoja navegando por el río hasta el infinito, o ser el río que nunca acaba. Subir en la montaña rusa o convertirte en ella. Volar como las nubes o cobijarlas como el cielo. ¿Ser…