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Reflections for Daily Living

The Mukta Center blog shares weekly insights on mindfulness, psychology, and the art of living in the present moment. You’ll find simple practices to quiet the mind, reflections on freedom and clarity, and fresh perspectives on health, relationships, and purpose—plus previews from upcoming ebooks and workshops. It’s a way to stay connected, inspired, and supported as you bring more awareness into daily life. 

Hope

Oh, what a thing is hope. Hope is often defined as to cherish a desire with anticipation, to want something to happen or to be true. How natural this is. It seems woven into the very fabric of being human, part of the movement of life itself. And yet, at the same...

The Arc of Becoming

The Arc of Becoming Entering this world, each person carries innate potential: unique traits, interests, and talents that begin to reveal themselves early in childhood, while others unfold gradually over the course of a lifetime. Yet the world we enter is not simple....

Awareness and The Shadow

Awareness is the space of presence within each of us. Yet it is often described as something separate from our personality, separate from our thoughts. In fact, personality is frequently portrayed as the obstacle — the very thing that blocks access to this clear inner...
The Spiritual Bypass

The Spiritual Bypass

For certain is death to those who are born, and certain is birth to those who have died. Therefore, the wise do not grieve over the inevitable.— Bhagavad Gita We hear these teachings often:The world is impermanent.Life is sorrowful, as the Buddha observed. Taken at...

We don’t do sad, and it’s hurting us

We don’t do sad, and it’s hurting us

Earlier, I wrote about natural emotions and how most of us tend to either suppress the flow of feelings or amplify them, especially when it comes to painful emotions like grief and sadness. I’m no exception. Even after years of “working on” my emotions, I can still...