Elephant Meditation

11/14/2025

"The morning after I signed up to finally practice Ashtanga yoga with Sharath Jois, he was gone.

What followed was a lesson no teacher could ever give in person..."

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11/14/2025

"This year, I've decided to adopt a little holiday season mantra. A quote to come back to and meditate on when I find myself drowning in all the work that's meant to lead up to all the magic we've come to expect from this time of year."

So this year, I've decided to adopt a little holiday season mantra. A quote to come back to and meditate on when I find myself drowning in all the work that's meant to lead up to all the magic

11/13/2025

"This awareness alone can be transformative. When we stop expecting permanent happiness from impermanent things, we suffer less. We can still enjoy the ride—but without being fooled into thinking it will finally 'complete' us."

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11/13/2025

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11/13/2025

"Personally, if I could change one thing about my life, it would be using my time better. Life is short, and time is much more precious than many of us realise."

ike the unnamed character from the movie we shall not mention, Zheng believes that all our experiences—both good and bad—contribute to the person we are, and if we change even

11/13/2025

"Although I have never wanted to be poor or to renounce all worldly things and responsibilities, I've also known that I want more than just money and material goods; I want personal growth, wisdom, freedom, and the capacity to create from a deeper place within me."

In my first year of college, I read a poem in my English Literature class that turned my world, as I knew it, upside down. The poem was by Marie Howe, and it was titled

11/12/2025

"Loving yourself right now doesn’t mean bypassing your growth. It doesn’t mean pretending everything’s perfect when it isn’t. It means honoring the process. It means saying: 'Yes, I’m still healing. Yes, I’m still learning. Yes, I’m still becoming. And I love myself in this exact moment anyway.'"

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11/12/2025

"I hope you enjoy these films too and that they bring peace, upliftment, and enchantment to your life."

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11/12/2025

"It brings us to the underlying fear we have as humans, conscious of our vulnerability and mortality. All creatures live in the face of death, and the great unknowns associated with it. Yet we are aware of it. That existential uncertainty is a backdrop to the drama of our lives, and it plays out in the dramas of sport."

I went to my local café four days after the

11/12/2025

Let that truth settle into your bones:

Your belief system is the lens through which you view the world. It’s shaped by your upbringing, your culture, your wounds, your wins, and the stories you’ve repeated to yourself

11/12/2025

"Healing isn’t about talking endlessly. True transformation happens when you choose to show up differently in life and in your relationships moment by moment."

We need to start talking about therapy differently. Somewhere along the way, therapy became synonymous with emotional dumping, a place to unload every frustration