Topic 1 – Imagine the minds as a blank canvas

“Let’s begin by allowing the mind to be empty and blank. Rumi said: “Be an empty page, untouched by words.” This is your invitation to let go of expectations and judgments, creating space for new possibilities.

Rumi also teaches us, “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” Pain, whether physical or emotional, has a purpose. It’s a guide, asking us to pay attention. However, when we suppress or ignore these emotions, research shows they grow stronger, like a fire fueled by neglect. Psychologists call this amplification. By numbing or avoiding, we deny ourselves the opportunity to heal.

Think about this: maybe today, you’re ready to break a cycle. Whatever is unresolved from our past often shows up in our relationships, in how we parent, or even in our careers. But only you have the power to decide that it ends here. Emotional pain lingers when it is not given a voice.” – David Scott

Topic 2 – Embracing and Releasing Emotions

It is so important to face our feelings. When we teach children to distract themselves from their big emotions with treats or toys, we unknowingly teach them to escape discomfort rather than process it. As adults, this pattern can grow into addiction or avoidance—a search for something “out there” to fill an emptiness within.

Yet, numbing only disconnects us further, offering temporary comfort but no true healing. To heal, we must embrace our emotions with courage and compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh beautifully reminds us, “When we embrace anger and take good care of it, we obtain relief and gain many insights.”

Have you ever been angry at someone, only to realize later they weren’t the true cause of your suffering? Often, what triggers us today is rooted in repressed emotions from the past. Some nerve that is exposed. Repression buries feelings alive, and they simmer within us until we find a healthy way to release them.

Topic 3 – Facing the Shadows of our Fears

Think of your fear like a shadow cast on a wall. The farther you are away from the wall and the dimmer light, the larger and overwhelming the shadow looks—but when you turn to face it, you see it for what it truly is: something smaller, less threatening than you imagined.

Let your breath be the light that softens those shadows. Each inhale brings clarity; each exhale dissolves the fear. Shadows only thrive in the absence of light—when we bring awareness to them, they lose their grip and power on us.

Mixed Bag

“You don’t fear the future, you fear the past recurring.”

“A big part of healing, is just giving yourself permission to feel.” David Scott

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” – Buddha

“Use your spare time wisely, constantly sharpening the sword of wisdom. A secret of success in life, is to be ready for opportunity when it arrives.”

All energies in the universe are meant to flow. “Dam a river long enough and it becomes stagnant and undrinkable.” – David Scott

“If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.” – Socrates

“Climb your mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”–Andy Rooney

“The brighter the light, the more our shadow appears as if to contrast it.” David Scott

The greater the challenge, they sweeter the reward. Climb the tree and seek the high hanging fruits. “To taste the sweetest untouched fruit, you must first climb the tree.” David Scott

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. – Mahatma Gandhi

Mantra – “I don’t chase, I attract. What something belongs to me will simply find me.”

“The pursuit of purpose Is the most meaningful pursuit that most people never take. Most westerners live in material wealth but spiritual poverty.” – David Scott

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Own your successes and experience your failures

You can’t fix a broken wheel but you can take the parts and build a new one.

“If you carry around a lot of suppressed or repressed anger (anger you have unconsciously buried) you may lash out at people, blaming or punishing them for something someone else did a long time ago. Because you were unwilling or unable to express how you felt in the past, you may overreact in the present, damaging a relationship.” – Beverly Engel

“There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn’t it time to break free?” – Vironika Tugaleva

“Sadness will not kill you. Depression won’t either. But fighting sadness will. Ignoring depression will. Trying to escape it rather than confront it will. Denying it will. Suffocating it will. Allowing it no place to go other than your deep subconscious to embed and incubate within you will. Repression will not kill you today in the physical way, but it will rob you of every bit of life you feel in your heart.”

“You Can’t Skip Chapters That’s Not How Life Works. You Have to Read Every Line Meet Every Character. You Won’t Enjoy All of It. Hell, Some Chapters Will Make You Cry for Weeks. You Will Read Things You Don’t Want to Read, You Will Have Moments When You Don’t Want the Pages to End. But You Have to Keep Going. Stories Keep the World Revolving. Live Yours, Don’t Miss Out.” -Courtney Peppernell

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou

“I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela