Author Archives: nandajurela

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”

The guideline of Do No Harm is only complete when it includes the self. Notice how Do No Harm introduces an angle to compassion/self-compassion and love of neighbour/love of self that is practical and centering and clears up all misconceptions of what love is. Do No Harm makes a good mantra. It has the powerContinue reading “Do No Harm”

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 Afternoon”

If you have the energy, the inspiration and the skill to create something you want to enjoy for many years, wouldn’t you create the most beautiful thing that you are capable of creating, something that will touch your heart again and again, keep your senses engaged and your intellect thankful and thrilled? So do it.Continue reading “Play, and Have Fun!”

Self-love: the perfect way to leave the past in the past. Self-love: the perfect way to live in the now. NJ27 March 2014

Source, move the big courage I have in some parts of life into the places where I don’t have enough. Above all, give me the courage to be happy. Deliciously, impactfully, vibrantly happy. NJ 19 May 2014

Give your medicine. Don’t waitfor it to be popular, recognizedand for the right audience.Give it to life. Love speaks to all,uplifts all,touches all. Love gives you the lifeyou were meant to live. NJ1 May 2015

If I could howl like them, I would do it too! My thought last night when I listened to the wolves howling. Scientists have suggested that wolves howl for a variety of reasons: to communicate with their pack and dearest ones, to attract a mate, out of distress, loneliness, to mark territory, etc.. Both theContinue reading “Why Wolves Howl: Guess”

We often get so absorbed by daily life and the challenges of the moment that we don’t register, or honour, the milestones we have made. But when we recall where we were .. say three, four, or ten years ago and remember what it was that we asked for and hoped for, we can seeContinue reading “Cherish the Dream That Comes True”

The Muse can be anything that gives you wings: a very wholesome state, children, a partner you love very much, an unforgettable person you feel grateful to, a piece of art, a piece of music, an event that lets you feel why you are here, a sanctuary or land that is like a piece ofContinue reading “Muse and Attitude”

Sometimes we learn this in a too slow, painful way. We don’t have to. It really is very easy. Pay attention to what and whom you love. It is the best decision you can make. All things fall into place when you love your focus and focus on your loves. Love is attention. It isContinue reading “Love is attention.”

When you are appreciated and recognized you feel rich. When you are underappreciated and not recognized you feel poor. Harmony is in between the two extremes, in the middle ground of moderate wealth: nurtured yet hungry for more, rewarded yet free of egoic expectations. If you feel rich with love and esteem today, give someContinue reading “Stored in the Earth”

The thoughts you think while you are at peace are gold – pure gold. You feel the true you, you hear your truth clearly when you are at peace. The thoughts you think when you are reacting to a situation, when you are hurt, sad, agitated, trying to self-soothe are blurry in comparison and haveContinue reading “Harmony Within, Harmony Without”

If you were full of self-love, how would your day look? Who would you spend it with, and what would you do? Think of the answer in vivid detail. Then accept that you can make it just like that. NJ21 June 2014