Haemin Sunim

Don’t struggle to heal your wounds.

Just pour time into your heart and wait.

When your wounds are ready,

they will heal on their own.

if we can train our mind and choose wisely where to focus, then we will be able to experience the world corresponding to the state of our mind.

it’s not the situation that is troubling us,
but our perspective on it.

When your mind is joyful and compassionate, the world is, too. When your mind is filled with negative thoughts, the world appears negative, too. When you feel overwhelmed and busy, remember that you are not powerless. When your mind rests, the world also rests.

However, to our minds, that small world is the entire universe. Our reality is not the infinitely stretching cosmos but the small part we choose to focus on.

Don’t struggle to heal your wounds.
Just pour time into your heart and wait.
When your wounds are ready,
they will heal on their own.

Before your children are all grown,
travel as frequently as you can as a family.

So be more confident, and please stop beating yourself up.

In the process of helping,
you will be healed.

Do memories cause you pain?
Practice being in the present moment.
Turn your attention to the here and now.
Notice that your thoughts subside when you focus on the present.
As your thoughts quiet, so, too, the memories.
Because memories are, in essence, thoughts.