Dealing with Loss: 10 Ways to Remember Your Departed Loved Ones – Purpose Fairy

While not all ways of coping are great, each person needs to find their own way of accepting the loss and learning to live with it. Source: Dealing with Loss: 10 Ways to Remember Your Departed Loved Ones – Purpose Fairy

35 Life Lessons to Learn from Henry David Thoreau – Purpose Fairy

Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most famous writers. As a philosopher, he spoke about the idea of discovering and living a more simple life Source: 35 Life Lessons to Learn from Henry David Thoreau – Purpose Fairy

The Right Amount of Stress

The right amount of stress in any given situation is called eustress and an overwhelming amount of is called distress. It is possible to generate eustress in situations where we put ourselves out, stretch our limits, and reach out of our comfort zone. On the other hand, distress can be very harmful to our immune […]

Hope, Faith and Love

This lovely poem on the subject of hope, faith and love came to me from Lama Surya Das and I am truly grateful. It embeds some wonderful teachings about what we can accomplish in our lives, what is true and beautiful and how we are interdependent on others for our happiness. Nothing worth doing is […]

Guided Meditation for Loving Kindness

This guided meditation for loving kindness was created by Michael Sealey and is quite good for learning how to give and receive loving kindness, compassion, happiness, abundance and healing and eliminating stress and anxiety. Michael begins with a soothing body scan that takes about 7 minutes. Then he asks us to bring into mind an […]

Purpose Fairy

Purpose Fairy ’s mission is to inspire and empower people to become everything life created them to be. Nourish your Mind Body, and Soul with Purpose Fairy. Source: Purpose Fairy

Everything Happens by Itself

This lovely poem teaches us that Everything happens by itself. The poem is by Lama Gendun Rinpoche and it came in an email from Lama Surya Das. It reminds me of a song we sing at retreats and sangha gatherings called ” Make use of this spaciousness, this freedom and natural ease. Don’t search any […]

How to Practice Inclusiveness

Today’s lesson is on how to practice inclusiveness is also from the 21-day Happiness Challenge from Luminita Saviuc, also known as the Purpose Ferry. Our world today is filled with different groups, religions, races, people with a different sexual orientation, and many other categories that keep us separate. When we practice inclusiveness, we allow others […]

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Empty of What?

When Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the Buddhist concept of emptiness, he always asks the question, “Empty of what?” Much of the time the answer is “Empty of a separate existence.” This means that nothing exists in isolation without interaction with everything else. If something did, we would never be able to access […]