From the wound comes the salve. The place of the deepest wounding will provide your salvation.

We recover the person we are intended to be.

Hayat deneyip yanildiklarimizdir.

True healing is not just internal coherence but it’s coherence between us and the outside world, between us and each other, between the physical and the non-physical part of ourselves.

You are a good guardian of memories.

Biz felaketlerin oncesinde cok zayif, felaketlerin sonrasinda cok kuvvetli bir toplumuz. Sulh zamaninda gelisen toplumlar gelismis toplumlardir. Zorlama olmadan da konfor alanindan cikmayi ogrenmeliyiz.

Her insan evrene bir mandala olarak gelir. Bildiklerini harmanlayip sunmak gidisatin bir parcasidir.

It’s not how Canadian you are, it’s who you are in Canada.

Her formda bilgi kendi zamaninda acilir, yerlesir, bedenlenir.

Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedom and security are yours.

Be aware, be non-striving, be in the moment and accept things as they are. Just do it.

To be undivided and unfragmented, to be completely present, is to love. To pay attention is to love.

Let’s not become one of those couples that spend more time analyzing their relationship than being in one.

God doesn’t give an elephant a trunk it cannot raise.

Our diversity is our superhero power.

One thing that happens to you when you leave home is that you have to then either find home or you have to understand why this is home or you have to become comfortable in a new space so that it will be your new home. And the best way to do that is by understanding. Often times you aren’t forced to understand, if you are in the majority. If the norm is your world you are fine. If everyone has your accent then you don’t need to understand another accent. If everybody is your skin colour, you don’t need to understand another skin colour. If everybody is your culture, if everybody is your language, if everybody is your socioeconomic class, whatever it may be. Then you don’t need to understand. The fastest path to home is just understanding. We live in a world now where there are fewer and fewer experiences that we all relate to or that we have all gone through. So while that’s great for individualism and that’s great for us living in our own niche, it has robbed us of a collective understanding.

Bizi arayan bulur, bulan tanır, tanıyan sever, seven aşık olur, aşık olana biz de aşık oluruz.

Sabir ortamdaki durumu kabullenerek hedefe ulasana kadar ya da o durumun sartlarini kendi lehimize cevirene kadar metodik ve akillica yontemlerle calismaya, gayret gostermeye ve ilerlemeye devam etmektir. Sabir pasif bir bekleyisten ziyade aktif bir hareket halinin adidir.

Initiation: The capacity to learn something new and demonstrate to someone else that you know it 
Rituals: Rights of passage, how to mark transitions and change

Initiation and rituals are not separated out from life. Every day is an initiation because every day is a new experience. There is not a culture on this planet that doesn’t ritualize the four great mysteries of birth, initiation, marriage, and death. Every day provides us an opportunity for birth and renewal. Every day provides us an opportunity for learning which is initiation. And every day provides us an opportunity for marriage which in the truest sense is mergence, integration or synthesis of bringing two or more parts of ourselves and creating a greater whole. And every day is a practise of letting go and release.

Those tender words we share with one another are stored in the secret heart of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall and spread and our mystery will grow green across the earth.

The grief is not something simply to endure. It’s something we must engage. We must engage it through ritual, writing, dance, poetry…through some kind of ways in which we give it shape and give it expression.

5 Gates of Grief:
(1) Everything we love, we will lose. There are no exceptions. To love is to accept this truth of impermanence.
(2) The parts of us that have not known love. These are the pieces of us that have been shamed, denied, or made unwelcome. The parts of us that feel unworthless.
(3) Sorrows of the world that we are intimately entangled with. It breaks up the fantasy of separation.
(4) What we expected and did not receive. The absence of the village. What we are aching for is something we are expecting. In its place, there is a profound emptiness. It’s not a personal failure, it’s a failure of culture.
(5) Unacknowledged ancestral grief. Almost all the grief we carry is ancestral.

What becomes depression is really a kind of oppression. It’s layers and layers of untouched grief that weigh down on us.

I am not an egg, I am African.

Bizler gorunmez baglarla sistemlerimize bagliyiz ve bir sekilde ruhumuzda onlarin yasadiklarini yasama ihtiyaci duyariz.