Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

Your happiness is crucial to my happiness.

To overcome fear, we can first start with the awareness that fear is in us. Then, as the second step, we create our intention not to run away from fear. Our tendency is to run away from it because fear is not pleasant. We don’t want to live with fear. But fear keeps coming back. We’re afraid that something may happen this afternoon or tomorrow. We

So give your anger, your despair, your fear, a bath of mindfulness every day.

So if you suffer a little bit, or you suffer a lot, or if you don’t suffer anything at all, that depends on you—on whether you have insight, whether you have compassion or not.

happiness can only be recognized against the

So when suffering is emerging, stay where you are and welcome it, whether it’s your anger, your frustration, or your longing for something not satisfied. Even if that block of suffering has no name, you can’t name it yet, it’s still suffering. So be ready to say hello to it, to embrace it tenderly, and to live with it.

Once we adopt that style of living, we become a happy person right away.

Our suffering, our depression also need food to survive. If our depression refuses to go away, it’s because we keep feeding it daily. We can look deeply into the source of nutrition that is feeding our suffering.

Do you have a problem right now, in this moment? Look at yourself in your physical form, your feelings, your perceptions. Do you have a problem? If we see that we don’t have any problem at all in the present moment, we shouldn’t let the ghosts of the past dominate us. We should not let the projections of the past or the future break us down. They’r