Rory Lim

26/08/2025

19/08/2025

Child. Listen to me. Open up your heart for a moment and listen. You don’t need to banish your anger or bury your grief and sadness. The fact that you may feel anger about some injustice or inequity; the fact that you have the capacity to feel grief and sadness means that life still touches you.
Learn to trust the wisdom-river flowing beneath the river of these emotions. Learn to walk with your depression, your anxiety, your anger as a teacher and a friend. The fact that you feel means that you care. The thing you really have to watch out for is indifference. The ones who don’t feel anything are the ones who are destroying the world.
✍️ Attributed to doña Río de Gracian
🎨 Claudia Olivos

Rivers in the Ocean

12/08/2025

True Empathy

Those of us who have walked through shadows of pain,
and carried heavy burdens of suffering,
come to know empathy not as a distant idea,
but as a living, breathing part of our being.

Our scars, visible or hidden,
become silent teachers that guide our hearts,
which help us understand the unspoken struggles of others.

Having felt the sharp sting of loss,
the quiet ache of loneliness,
and the overwhelming weight of despair,
we grow tender toward the pain of others.

In our presence, sorrow is met with kindness,
and brokenness with gentle understanding,
for we know true empathy is born
from shared hardship and the courage
to keep our hearts open through it all.

~ 'True Empathy' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Unknown via Pinterest

11/08/2025

I LOVE YOU, BUT I SET YOU FREE..

It took me a while to understand that I could still love someone and yet have the courage to let them go, especially when we were no longer growing together. For the longest time, I held onto connections that no longer served me because I thought I had to keep my promise. I didn’t realize that even love evolves, and there is no reason to fear that change.

I learned that love and loss can coexist, and that letting go is not a failure of the heart, it’s an act of grace. Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone, and for yourself, is to release the hurt, resentment, and regret. It is far better to let go with kindness than to cling to something that is no longer good for either of you.

Now I know that real love is not about possession,it’s about freedom. Choosing to let go, even when it hurts, can still be the right thing to do. I realized I didn’t need to keep anyone in my life who was only hurting me or holding me back from my potential. This didn’t mean they were terrible people; it simply meant we were no longer meant to be.

I learned how to love and how to let go, without losing myself in the process. That is true growth.

01/08/2025