Author Archives: nandajurela

Love does the work.Everything you worry about,love accomplishes it.Love carries you to complete it.Love made you.Love has made life.Love can make anythingthat has to do with life.Love keeps it simple.Love lets you arrive. You know that.You have allowed it so many times.Allow it today. NJ1 May 2015

A mind made kinder by love can live in peace with everything, even difficult things, and works to overcome ignorance, destructiveness and suffering. NJ May 2014

Thank you, life, for never letting me go for too long without feeling loved. Thank you, mind, for knowing that that was meaningful – to not only adore and shower love on others – but to also feel the love coming to me. Feeling unloved, never getting enough love, never acknowledging the love being given,Continue reading “Nurtured by Love”

Familiar with myself, I can befriend or be at peace with others. Being a friend to myself, I trust my instincts about what and who is right for my well-being. I love discovering myself, becoming healthier, feeling better and better, seeing the warm richness in my psyche, the courage in my mind, and the loveContinue reading “A Friend to Myself”

Thank you, life,for letting me knowhow it isto wake up with a grateful heart,to be losing the taste for chaos,to wake up to a daythat is the answer to many prayers.I dreaded the fearthat what I had asked for was impossible,that my enough was not your enough,that I would be denied.But you opened a pathContinue reading “Early Morning Song”

When your loved one is falling apart, and you remain strong, you are serving love. In the same way, when the world is in anguish, frightened or blue, and you remain strong, you are serving love. You can not always choose strength over getting affected. But when you can, do it. It will have aContinue reading “True to Love”

Bring freshness and well-being to the people you love, so they can feel your love. NJ17 August 2014

The person who loves you brings freshness and well-being to you. NJ 17 August 2014

Curiosity – you can’t fake it until you make it. It determines whether you can learn and understand something or someone. Find out what (and who!) makes you curious. Don’t worry too much about what doesn’t or why; there are many reasons, many of them subconscious and linked to the law of attraction. Time isContinue reading “Curiosity Is the Arrow to Purpose”

Growing It: Attention, Encouragement, Action, Gratitude, Repeat The quality you want to have more of, it is already there, right beside other things. Attention is love, in a real way. So guide your attention toward the things you want to “grow” and enjoy more of. That will alter the proportions of everything that is presentContinue reading “Growing It”

There are many parallels between a spiritual person and a sharp dresser in a highly casual environment. Their choices are hardly understood or endorsed, and the effort they put in seems to be of so little benefit to them personally. Only when you consider that there is priceless bliss in being who you are, thatContinue reading “Level Up!”

Me: “In a reciprocal community, there is no such thing as self-sacrifice…” The river: “The universe is reciprocal. This planet is reciprocal. It is only you people who have forgotten that.” NJ 16 June 2019 (Father’s Day walk)

The sun warms the earth.In appreciation, the earth nurtures its readiest roots and shootsand develops flowers and a profusion of plantsthat feeds all life. The sun warms the body.In appreciation, the body nurtures its best inclinationsand develops luminous flower-like centres of energyand luxurious well-being. Just for today, I am awarethat the sun loves the earthwithContinue reading “O Sole Mio”

To accept yourself means to make peace with your weak points and lack and peace with your good points and blessings. And I dare say, to nurture your excellent points. Your heart is always beating in your chest for you – in grief, in joy, in calm, in progress, in failure, in pluck, in fatigue,Continue reading “Self-acceptance”

Practise and play while you are happy and neutral. So when you get sad or are in pain, you can draw on your practice and still be creative. When there are obstacles – outer or inner – it is especially important that you keep playing, not only to lift your mood, shift it upward, andContinue reading “Create With Ease”

Self-loyalty is the ultimate goal: it means being true to love. NJsummer solstice 2014 to forever

Nothing beats stamina. No talent, no beauty, no courage, no hunger, no intelligence, no assets under the sun will make you meet your goal, if you don’t have stamina. Grow stamina and use it. Persevere, and you will be a success. NJ28 October 2014

Here and there, we make an exception. Overall, we choose, and live in, patterns. Observe your good patterns – the pattern to be generous and humane, the pattern to do good, the pattern to make healthy choices, for example – and use them as your foundation. By putting the spotlight on the good, you discourageContinue reading “In the Garden, On a Sunny Friday Afternoon”

Presence wakes you up to the good you are being served, day after day. How many times do you walk by something miracular, because your mind is on other things – on solving problems, on making sense of words that made no sense or were uttered without forethought, on numbers that are absurd, on tryingContinue reading “Presence”