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Leaving a Violent Past

I’m from Venezuela I’m 23 years old and I used to live in Toronto Canada. Back in Canada I had a very negative life involving drugs, gangs, violence, and sex. I spent a lot of time in jail before getting deported back home.
I’ve been home for five months and back in prison I decided that this was going to be a new beginning and that I was going to change my life. I always was a spiritual person and even though I did bad things I wasn’t happy. Now that I’m home I’m finding it very difficult to stop being aggressive because I’m very aggressive to the point of getting physical with people and I’ve always been that way because of my life style.

I would like to know how to put everything negative in the past behind me because I’m trying but I keep falling back. And it doesn’t allow me to find peace inside and that all I really want peace of mind and to be able to forgive myself for being so selfish in the past.

Daily Inspiration

When you give, you show your appreciation to the source of all things. The joy and enthusiasm you can feel for spirit reflects back onto you. -Deepak Chopra

Missing Oneself

I am 38 years old and it seems like I have been going through most of my life feeling like I am missing something, but I don’t know what. I know I am very insecure and I have no idea why or what has made me this way. I have family and friends and yet I feel alone…what is wrong with me?

How to Dispel the Darkness (Part 1)

When people face a dark hour, as all of us have to, what is the best way to move out of it? The kinds of darkness haven’t changed over the centuries, but our response has. The greatest change is that medicine has replaced religion as a way to explain what is happening. We speak of depression and anxiety as disorders, not as curses or as signs of sin. In the aftermath of trauma we don’t ask why God wanted t punish us; we cope with post-traumatic stress disorder through therapy, either talking to a professional or taking a pill. Thus the doctor has replaced the priest as first choice for dispelling the darkness when it descends. (more…)