If you’re struggling to practice Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now, here’s what to do. — How do you decide? To speak or not to speak. To fall in love or not to. How do you choose who you fall in love with? To get married or not to. How do you know what to tell people? What parts of yourself to share with them. …

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” — Alice Walker — “There is more than one kind of freedom. ‘Freedom to’ and ‘freedom from’.” — Aunt Lydia, The handmaid’s tale “How does she do that?” I wondered. “Who gave her permission to play like this? To jump from image to image. To lie and then quickly admit that she was lying…

Inside Yourself, That’s Where — I think we all long to be stripped. We long to be naked. To flow into another person’s soul without resistance. That’s why that stuff is addictive. That’s why we are fighting to find our people. …

Here Is What I Know — Creativity is a place you go to It’s within you But also, out there It’s around us In space In his smile In her agony Under your skin on a windy afternoon It’s your niece’s shenanigans. It’s a dissolution When you merge with your environment With whatever you’re doing: Cooking, Cleaning…

I underestimated my greed — Art is a state of helplessness. It’s a burning hopelessness. You create or you die. You make your art or you burn. My art has been incinerating me from the moment I was born. I didn’t recognize it in the beginning. Its call was always gentle, always in the background…

I Hope I Never Forget How You Make Me Feel — I hope I never lose the twinkle in my eyes I hope these knots will forever stay in my stomach I hope I never forget how you make me feel. I once fell in love with a boy’s voice Every time he spoke, I came alive — No, I went silent I…

Whatever You’re Going Through, It, Too, Shall Pass — I’ve given you a thousand windows into my soul, but you refuse to enter every single time I’m a ray of light fighting into your house suffocating thwarted by your curtains those curtains I hate so much I’m always burning mutilating myself parts of me are always fighting, trying to find their…

At What Point Should I Run Away From This Pain? — I’ve stayed here for too long. There’s nothing wrong with seasons, nothing wrong with jumping and hopping from winter to autumn to summer to spring and to winter again. But I’ve wintered for too long. What if I forget? What if my mind, my body, and my soul forget how…

The Things I Say To Myself To Keep Pushing On — “Nothing in the Universe,” he says Nothing in this Universe will yield to you unless you give yourself to it completely It’s a beautiful love affair if you asked me Except, I’m not enough Everything I do is less-than But that’s a good thing Let me explain. Sadhanapada In the journal…