هكذا هي الحياة. فعندما تخبر أحدهم بالحقيقة، فإنه يكرهك. وكلما تحدّثت عن الحبّ، ازدادت كراهيته لك. - Elif Şafak

How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?

Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

If families resemble trees, as they say, arborescent structures with entangled roots and individual branches jutting out at awkward angles, family traumas are like thick, translucent resin dripping from a cut in the bark. They trickle down generations.