I was reading Untethered Soul, agreeing strongly in the part about breaking down the barriers we build around ourselves... Then I came home and my window wouldn't close because it's broken. Immediately I felt fear. It's cold where I live! What will I do when it's not hot and sunny out? What will I do to get my landlord to fix this? Panic spoke for a moment. Then I literally looked past the open crack and saw plain beauty in the nature beyond. Wow. Outside is majestic. There i

Did you know that I'm a control freak? Yep. That's how I learned to be compassionate. Before self-love, I had to look harshly on all the uptight, wound-up habits I have in the world. (There's a lot, and they're hilarious.) The only way I could live with them was to learn how to love them. Great counselling has taught me to regard uptight clenching as my "growth zone," and that I can love myself anyways. By loving my stiffness, closed-mindedness, and other unsavoury digression