"Often, it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self."

— Karen Salmansohn 

Many of us are again in lockdown and forced to close our now-struggling businesses once more, some of us having lost our jobs and lifestyles, in a time when we feel more divided than ever. When discord in the political world in so many of our nations seems disconnected from the purpose of caring for and uniting people, and when we are bombarded with misinformation and are confined...

In today’s world, most people live life in an unconscious mode, as if they were numb. There is a tendency to live for the future or the past, rather than being connected to ourselves and living in the present. Social media, vanity, gossip, shopping, making money, and other pursuits in the outer world seem to keep many of us on autopilot and disassociated from our sense of self and the true meaning of life.


We’ve learned to clutter our existence with external things and experiences...