Frugality - Part I

How to keep focus in a world so full of distractions? Frugality. I try to live with less things as possible, clutter and many possessions can give me anxiety. If I don't fit all my possessions in a suitcase, I have too much. We live through the false impressions of things. 

Are you not ashamed of yourself, all of you who are smitten by wealth? Come, look at the heavens; you will see the gods devoid of possessions, and giving everything though they have nothing, - Seneca

 

Tourist at monk's cell:"Where is your furniture?"

Monk: "Where is yours?"

Tourist: "Mine? I'm only a tourist here."

Monk: "And so am I."

Suffering for love - Part I

You see, all these specialists are saying: "If you love yourself, you would never suffer for someone else, because you are whole and do not need validation and reciprocation from others."

I believe it is the opposite. Tell me, when do we start to love ourselves? When we accept all our flaws and imperfections. It is exactly when we accept that and love ourselves the way we are build (of course we can always improve certain conditions like eating well, or having more discipline) but our main character... our foundation, we somehow, one day, we have to accept them and see ourselves as a whole person. It is when we can purely love others, even if they do not respond to us. I choose, to love someone, I choose, my decision, because despite all his flaws I see him as whole, admirable whole.