Category: Inner Peace & Happiness

The ability to plan for the future is a cornerstone of our civilization. The human race would never have flourished if we didn’t organize, arrange, design, prepare, and delay gratification for greater causes. Take, for example, this structure: the Kölner Dom, which is a massive cathedral in the German city of Cologne. The construction began […]

Many spiritual and religious traditions talk about the human tendency to spend too much time outside the present moment. According to a Harvard University study, we spend almost fifty percent of the time we are awake, not thinking about what we are doing. So, what are we thinking about instead? Well, we either ruminate about […]

To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one’s mind – this is the teaching of the Buddha. The Buddha, Dhammapada, 14-183 Meditation has been scientifically proven to have many health benefits, like reduced anxiety and better emotional health. While this is great, I also see many people struggling with incorporating meditation in […]

People are divided about how we should approach these intense experiences related to past events, called nostalgia. Some people just love to immerse themselves in memories, good or bad and take deep journeys into the realm of the former. Other people avoid clinging to memories because this only makes them sad. So, can we see […]

Let’s do some backward thinking today. In order to achieve inner peace, we might want to explore what actually stands in the way of achieving it, so we can eliminate these things and reach a state of tranquility. In this video, I will present to you 10 things that disturb inner peace. 1) The need […]

Who doesn’t want a quiet mind? I think most people do, although many don’t even realize it. It’s the reason we drink, smoke a joint, binge-watch series on Netflix and check our smartphones. We want an escape from our over-encumbered minds that torment us with repetitive thinking patterns about what happened today, and what might […]

Krishnamurti said that you cannot reach a meditative state when your living environment is not in perfect order. This is debatable, of course, especially if you read the Stoic work Meditations, in which Marcus Aurelius states that we can take refuge in our minds, regardless of external circumstances. Psychiatrist Carl Jung states, however, that our […]