Finding Love – Part Four: Gratitude and the Heavy Luggage
Part 4 — Gratitude and the Heavy Luggage As he walked through the nights that married the days, with the dawns and the dusks on their shoulders, he sensed a feeling of gratitude growing within him. Walking through the rough, yet by the kind and shy sun he had decided, and became determined, on…
Finding Love – Part Three: The Walking and the Moon
Part 3 — The Walking and the Moon He walked his road, with his luggage. He walked with his backpack, heavy on a winter eve, with his suitcase dark on that same winter eve, and his side bag that held all his wishes, hopes, worries, desires, and past. He walked terrified of what lay for him in the…
Finding Love – Part Two: The Valley
Part 2 — The Valley …He reached a valley — valley of abundant love. In that valley lived a man who has also been seeking out he. As he entered the valley, he took permission to dwell there. The abundance of love & warmth and of equanimity embraced him. The man embraced him and welcomed him in…
Finding Love – Part One: The Road
Part 1 — The Road As he walked the road, he found all that life could offer.He found the fruits of all the trees, the animals of all of nature, the drinks of all that grapes, barley, and the botanicals had to offer. He found down that road sunshine and blue skies, warmth and livelihood, joy and…
Just Before Your Next One, Read This
Next Time! Next time you have the urge to smoke some weed, joints, tobacco… stop for ten seconds. Breathe, for ten seconds. Might you be numbing your pain by smoking it away? My Story with Smoking When I first started smoking joints, I told myself I was just doing it because it helped me…
War Begins Again When Those Left Behind Try to Live
A Brief History I was born in 1988, during the brutal final stretch of the Lebanese Civil War — a war that raged from 1975 to 1990. Those last years were chaos: factions fighting for power, influence, and survival, while ordinary people tried to cling to life. Away from the politics and headlines,…
Without Our Triggers, Our Growth is Hindered
Mindfulness of our Triggers Help us Grow For many years, I thought avoiding certain people was a sign of growth — less triggered, less agitated, less angry. But in reality, I was only avoiding what was already present inside me. I was burying it as deep as possible in my consciousness, convincing…
Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment and My Experience With It
Discovering Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment and My Experience With It Growing up, I never thought I was witnessing what’s called “anxious-preoccupied attachment” — a pattern that often shows up as protest or pursuer behaviors. I just felt that my parent wanted the best for me — that they were a bit…