Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:6 Happiness is subjective and rigidly associated with someone’s perception and personal-specific experience. However, generally, it often seems difficult and nearly impossible to feel happy when the uncontrollable external circumstances and environments are pathetic, horrible, unstable, uncertain, or notContinue reading “The Pursuit of (True) Happiness”
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Self-Awareness and Self-Transcendence: Ways to Build Self-Acceptance
Knowing the importance of self-acceptance as well as the urgency and benefit of having high self-acceptance leads to the next question: how could individuals practice and obtain such high self-acceptance? While the exact answer may vary and be individual-specific, there are several general ways to practice self-acceptance on a daily basis. At least, there areContinue reading “Self-Awareness and Self-Transcendence: Ways to Build Self-Acceptance”
Self-Acceptance: The Underrated but Important Concept
“Self-acceptance is such an underrated concept” “I am a growing human being realizing how my ego to validate myself is still high, but that’s okay. I know what I want, and today I’m going to keep on maintaining my ego and slowly let it die, one by one, until I can make room for anotherContinue reading “Self-Acceptance: The Underrated but Important Concept”
A Montage of Interview (2nd Piece): The Edge
+ Interviewer: I’m interested in this particular topic which might relate to certain people out there, notably in their ‘crisis’ time, periods when individuals questioning several things that appear in their life. Do you think that some pieces of you, internally, need to change?* Interviewee: Maybe yes, they need to be fixed and straightened outContinue reading “A Montage of Interview (2nd Piece): The Edge”
Choosing in The Transition Phase
“We need wisdom and courage to choose among hard choices.”Chatib Basri (2020) The transition phase is arguably a tough time to pass through. Despite the hardship, however, it gives many things to learn as well as moves subjects from one state to another. Not only in terms of business and economy but also human beingsContinue reading “Choosing in The Transition Phase”
TKM
You knew that I once wished for simplicity in a relationship, my dear. However, these were the actual meaning behind the word ‘simplicity’: During my lifetime under the sun, I wished I were there with someone who could bring tranquil to my heart, someone with whom I could spend the moment without being frightened thatContinue reading “TKM”
Existent
The time of inquiries has come. The inquiries about everything felt and thought. The questions about true happiness, real struggle, self development and spiritual maturity. The enigmas of logic and conscience, of reason and faith. The day of confusion has arrived. The quandary about everything to decide, undertake and undergo. The dilemma when frankness gotContinue reading “Existent”
A Reflection: Never Get Tired
I. A Tale of A Woman Who Wrote Letters Once upon a time, there lived a woman who had been living a simple life in a little town with her daughter. One day, her daughter got hit on an accident by a car driven by a drunk man. The accident wasn’t handled with the principleContinue reading “A Reflection: Never Get Tired”
A Short Tale of Choosing Shoes
Deciding the right shoes for us most of the time is challenging because we need to find one out of many choices that is right for us – the ones that are fit in and convenient for us. We find the style that we want, but the size which fit for us is out ofContinue reading “A Short Tale of Choosing Shoes”
Parable of A Tandem Bicycle
Being in a relationship is like riding a tandem bicycle with your spouse. The tandem bicycle’s handlebar is the vision, principle and belief shared between the couple.When the couple shares those mutual fundamental life values, they move forward together in unity.It’s just like when they are going to the same direction with the tandem bicycle.HowContinue reading “Parable of A Tandem Bicycle”
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