Everything Has a Purpose

AA wrote: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross... I used to read her a lot in the past, even long before Patrik left. I loved her comparison of a cocoon turning into a butterfly.

I fully agree with you in finding it relaxing, comforting, reassuring that there is a purpose behind everything.

Everything Has a Purpose

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings, given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Many difficult events in our lives seem unfair or meaningless, and we may curse our fate and wonder why these things happens to us. Often we spend much energy on pondering over this WHY, instead of going on with life as it is.

Drop unnecessary pondering. Learn to get in touch with your inner silence, be it through sitting or walking meditation, or in any other form. That is the most helpful thing you can do to calm down and see things in their true light. 

It may sound strange, but I find it relaxing to know that everything in life happens for a purpose. That way I can let go of trying to control the events in my life, and take things as they come. I know that there is a reason for everything that happens, a reason that I may not see or understand in that precise moment. 

Look back into your own life, and I am sure that you can already see several examples of the fact that many difficult events we have had to deal with turned out to be blessings...

Light a Lamp

Light a Lamp

It is more intelligent to light a very small lamp, than to complain about the darkness.*

Laozi

The dark period of the year has definitely begun. It’s already dark when we get up in the morning, and soon it will be dark when we come home from work. It’s a difficult period to get through, and small or big depressions make their way among many of us. 

This is the season to take extra good care of yourself and those around you. Don’t complain about the darkness, try to light it up instead! Cosiness is key. Dress warm (it’s more important to feel good than to be elegant), drink your favourite tea, prepare hot soups for dinner and light lots of candles! 

Now is the time to retire from the hectic life, and cuddle up on te coach with a good book, a hot chocolate or a nice movie. Now is the time to get lots of sleep and rub in your skin (quickly drying in heated rooms) with a fragrant cream - valid also for the gentlemen among you! :-)

Light the lamp of cosiness and care, and get happily through autumn and winter! 

*Il est plus intelligent d’allumer une toute petite lampe, que de te plaindre de l’obscurité. 

Lao Tzu 

Slowing Down

AA wrote:  "This is exactly what I needed. Your words are so spot on!".

Slowing Down

I have no time to rush

Tara Brach

Autumn is a season of decline in nature, and it somehow comes naturally to slow down our own steps, too. 

We have been rushing through summer, wanting to grasp each fleeting moment of its fullness, rarely stopping to reflect.

Now is the time to slow down, to take a deep breath and let the stunning freshness and colours of autumn sink in. 

We "have no time to rush”: rushing prevents us from taking in all the beauty around us. Rushed-through life is almost like blind, or un-lived life. 

In this amazing season I want to live each moment fully, enjoy each step through the fallen leaves, each breath of the moist, rich autumn air.

Let’s slow down, and quietly walk towards the hibernation we can only imagine...

Childhood Treasures

AA wrote: Så sant. Faktiskt har jag börjat göra det, kanske någonting som kommer automatiskt med åren, alltså att tänka på barndomen och det som var bra då och det känns så mysigt och helande.

Childhood Treasures

Happy is he, who still loves something he loved in the nursery. He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one.

  G K Chesterton

Do you remember a lot from your childhood? Try to evoke some positive memories from those days: who loved you or taught you things; who did you admire? Did you have an animal that showed you affection? In what gardens, playgrounds, fields or forests did you play or dream?

All that you loved as a child, all that nourished you is still a part of you. Why don’t you return to those childhood treasures to draw strength and joy, and to relive that deeply rooted happiness and playfulness!