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Thoughts shaped by experience, awareness, and the quiet work within.

Fear of the Unknown: What If There’s Nothing to Fear?

Fear of the Unknown: What If There’s Nothing to Fear?”

Fear of the Unknown: What If There’s Nothing to Fear? How to Understand and Overcome the Fear of Uncertainty? The dark side of comfort is that it feels safe simply because it is familiar, even when the familiarity is chipping away at your growth, your ability to change. Then one day, life asks something different […]

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Conscious living

The Hidden Slavery of Needing to Be Understood

The Hidden Slavery of Needing to Be Understood The deepest form of slavery is the hunger for being understood. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Hidden Slavery of Needing to Be Understood The painkiller gives instant relief from headaches, so it never bothers you. However, the headache never left; it simply gave you a short break, only to return, sometimes even more severe. This is because the painkiller never guaranteed a cure; it only provided temporary relief. This is

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Becoming a Better Human

8 Normal Things That Are NOT Red Flags in a Healthy Relationship

8 Normal Things That Are NOT Red Flags in a Healthy Relationship

8 Normal Things That Are NOT Red Flags in a Healthy Relationship Social media has diluted love. Love has become more like a checklist and less like an emotion. A checklist of red flags and green flags. Today, a relationship has become a negotiation that was truly a soul journey. We are overfed with information

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Guidance for Real Life

Main Character Energy: The Subtle Shift That Makes the World Respond to You Differently

Main Character Energy: The Subtle Shift That Makes the World Respond to You Differently

Main Character Energy: The Subtle Shift That Makes the World Respond to You Differently That Porsche waiting at the red lights, the one that instantly pulls your attention even among dozens of cars, that’s what Main character energy looks like. It did not seek your attention; it simply held it with its design and excellence.

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Becoming a Better Human

Taking Personal Responsibility: How It Frees You from Victimhood and Reclaims Your Power

Taking Personal Responsibility: How It Frees You from Victimhood and Reclaims Your Power

Taking Personal Responsibility: How It Frees You from Victimhood and Reclaims Your Power Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”— Viktor E. Frankl There’s nothing wrong with being a victim of circumstances.The danger lies in living in

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Guidance for Real Life

The Power of Accepting Your Truth: Why Self-Acceptance Is Real Strength

The Power of Accepting Your Truth: Why Self-Acceptance Is Real Strength

The Power of Accepting Your Truth: Why Self-Acceptance Is Real Strength Imagine telling glass that its breakable.Telling a candle that it will melt.Telling stone it does not have softness.Telling mountains that they are difficult.Telling ants that they are weak.Telling a butterfly that its fragile. Does that change their ability to give what they can.Does that

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Becoming a Better Human

Punch, the Abandoned Japanese Macaque, and What His Story Reveals About the Need for Love

Punch, the Abandoned Japanese Macaque, and What His Story Reveals About the Need for Love

Punch, the abandoned Japanese Macaque, and what his Story reveals about the Need for Love What happens when love isn’t returned and why choosing yourself is the quietest form of strength. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Scrawled Stories (@scrawledstories) We don’t seek love because we are weak; we crave it because

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Becoming a Better Human

Why Dhurandhar stayed with me long After the Screen Went Dark

Why Dhurandhar Stayed with me long after the Screen went Dark

Why Dhurandhar stayed with me long after the Screen went Dark I once read,“Imagine a fruit grown with your name written on it. No matter which market it goes to, whose hands pick it up, or how far it travels… it will still find its way to you.”These words serve as a reminder: Everything that

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Lessons from Experience

The Viral “Nihilist Penguin Death March”: Footprints in the Ice That Became a Blueprint for the Human Soul

The Viral “Nihilist Penguin Death March”: Footprints in the Ice That Became a Blueprint for the Human Soul How a viral penguin walk became a symbol of loneliness, courage, and the quiet rebellion of the human soul The loner penguin moving to the mountains of Antarctica, leaving behind its colony and its fellow penguins, has

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Guidance for Real Life

How to Overcome the Desire for Revenge When Someone Hurts You Deeply?

How to Overcome the Desire for Revenge when someone hurts you deeply?

How to Overcome the Desire for Revenge when someone hurts you deeply? No revenge, because the person they are is a punishment enough. It starts with a stabbing pain inside your soul, one that fills you with revolt more than it heals you. Even when all you need is to face that immeasurable pain and

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Guidance for Real Life
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