A Journal of My Thoughts

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 (EN) - As Eckhart Tolle puts it, there's no past other than it's being a memory, or no future other than it's being an anticipation in our minds. Now is all there is to live ... the past gives us an identity and the future holds the promise of a fulfilment but both are illusions that are being constructed as thoughts in our brains over and over again in time. We need to learn to make peace with our past and need to learn to let go of our worries for the future. Life is unpredictable, I know. And more often than not, it doesn't go the way we plan it or the way we would like it to go. No matter how hard we try to control every aspect of our lives, we simply can't since we never know what comes next. However, this doesn't mean that we have to live our lives like leaves blowing in the wind. NO. We certainly resist the wind. Though we shouldn't resist life itself, especially when life brings a change. On such times, the more we...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 "Happiness doesn't get magically bestowed on us. It's a skill we need to practice each and every day." -Paul Minors ... (EN) - I've read a blog¹ recently and I loved it. The author is Paul Minors. I don't know how old he is but from the looks of him, he is still young yet he seems wise beyond his years. The article I've come across was about happiness and I'm going to share his thoughts here. He starts his blog by asking if you've ever met anyone who's always happy, who's overwhelmingly positive or if you ever think that there's a secret to happiness. He doesn't know if there's a secret to happiness but he surely knows his way of getting closer to finding his own "secret" to happiness. "It starts with your definition of happiness" he says. "The key is to have a clear idea of what happiness means for you and to take deliberate action towards this definition." he ...