To the best of our scientific knowledge, human life has no meaning. The meaning of life is always a fictional story created by us humans.

during challenging times, remember that your being is separate from your situation. instead of spiraling in the victim or scarcity mindset, choose to be patient and recognize that you are learning. in choosing to be kind to yourself, you are already one step forward.

Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through.

⚘ Parker Palmer, Presence and the perils of advice