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What It Means to Feel
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What It Means to Feel

When we talk about spiritual growth and discovering our true potential, understanding how to make peace with the whole of life is crucial. Too often we think that authentic happiness comes from gaining something new or achieving a certain result, but real joy lies in appreciating what we have right here in this moment—or allowing ourselves to feel whatever arises within us. This post will explore the power of “feeling into” life: concentrating on our emotions and sensations instead of striving for an end goal, so that we can experience more profound levels of peace, love, and purposeful action.

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The Mirror of You
Austin Mao Austin Mao

The Mirror of You

When we feel a feeling, where does it come from? All feelings are your own. They might be triggered by another, but that trigger only reflects what lays dormant within. We can only feel something so long as it exists within us. We feel an emotion to the degree in which a statement or action resonates with the energy within us. We feel love more intensely when we feel greater self-love. We feel anger more intensely when we feel greater anger towards ourselves. By allowing ourselves the grace to be with ourselves, to take ownership of our experience of reality, we can penetrate into the cracks of ourselves that love has yet to fill.

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