Anne Muehlethaler

Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might

The human brain isn't wired to thrive on effortless living, it's wired to grow through friction,” says Riky Hanaumi, clinical director at the US mental health group Quadrant Health. “I see this every day in therapy: when people remove all discomfort from their lives, they don't become calmer, they become emptier. Struggle, when it's meaningful,

You Darkness
Rainer Maria Rilke translated by David Whyte

You darkness from which I come,

I love you more than all the fires

that fence out the world,

for the fire makes a circle

for everyone

so that no one sees you anymore.

But darkness holds it all:

the shape and the flame,

the animal and myself,

how it holds them,

all powers, all sight —

and it is possible: