as our self-awareness deepens, we begin to understand that much of who we are and how we see the world is formed through the accumulation of past emo… - Yung Pueblo

sometimes people are simply meant to teach you how not to act in the future

true power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader. it is when you share your truth with compassion and peace. your power grows when you make progress in your own freedom and wisdom. those who are truly powerful do not harm themselves or others; instead, they use their energy to enrich all they know with love.

The mind combats the natural flow of change by allowing most of its motivation to come from craving. Cravings quickly become attachments that try to mold reality into something it is not. Cravings are a rejection of reality as it is, and bring our focus into imagining what is missing or how we wish things would be. When our desire for things to be a certain way combines with tension, craving emerges. When we lock on to a particular idea and make our “happiness” dependent on it coming true, we are no longer living in the present moment — instead, we are striving to control reality. A continuous craving for things to be a certain way is known as “attachment.