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26/06/2025

Don’t force your place in someone’s life.

If someone wants you there, you’ll know.
You won’t have to keep trying to matter.
You won’t feel like you’re bothering them just by being yourself.

You won’t be the only one holding it all together.
You won’t sit there wondering what changed
or why it suddenly feels so distant.

People make time for what matters to them.
If they care, they show it.
If they don’t, they don’t.

And yeah, it hurts.
But trying to hold on when you’re the only one trying
hurts even more.

You shouldn’t have to shrink yourself to fit in.
You shouldn’t have to prove your worth to feel accepted.

The right people won’t make you question where you stand.
They’ll make it clear.
In how they show up,
how they stay,
and how they make you feel seen without asking for it.

Let your presence be a quiet gift,
not something you have to convince anyone to keep.

You’re not a burden.
You never were.
And the people meant for you won’t need reminding.

25/06/2025

26/05/2025

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18/05/2025

They called you the black sheep.
Not because you were wrong — but because you were different.

While the herd followed the path without question, you paused, looked up, listened to the wind
and whispered, “there must be another way.”

The black sheep don’t blend in.
Not because they can’t…
But because they won’t.

They’ve seen too many cliffs disguised as traditions. Too many cages called “normal.”

So they step out, alone maybe, but awake.

They ruffle feathers, stir waters, break silence
and sometimes — they build the bridges the flock never knew it needed.

To every black sheep out there:
You are the quiet revolution.
The shift in the pattern.
The wild note in the chorus.

You don’t need to fit in.
You were born to stand out — and lead forward ❤️

10/05/2025

PARENTS, PAY ATTENTION!!!
A teacher was grading her students’ homework.
Meanwhile, her husband was walking around the house glued to his smartphone, immersed in his favourite game.
When she got to the last assignment, the teacher quietly began to cry.

Her husband noticed and asked:
— What happened?

She replied:
— Yesterday, I gave my students a writing assignment: "MY WISH."

The husband said:
— Okay, but why are you crying?

Holding back tears, the wife answered:
— While correcting the last paper, I couldn’t help but cry.

Curious, the husband asked:
— What was written that was so emotional?

The wife began to read:

My wish is to become a smartphone.
My parents love their smartphone very much.
They take care of their smartphone so well that sometimes they forget to take care of me.
When my dad comes home tired from work, he has time for his smartphone, but not for me.
When my parents are doing something important and the phone rings, they answer it immediately—
but they don’t do the same with me, even when I’m crying.
They play with their phones, but not with me.
When they’re talking to someone on the phone, they don’t listen to me, even when I’m saying something important.
So my wish is to become a smartphone.

After hearing those words, the husband was deeply moved and asked:
— Who wrote that essay?

The wife, with teary eyes, replied:
— OUR SON.

PARENTS, remember this:
Electronic devices are helpful, but they are meant to make our lives easier—
not to replace love for our family and the people we care about.
Children see and feel everything happening around them.
Their experiences shape their minds and leave marks that last a lifetime.
Let’s care for them, so they grow up with the right values and without false needs.

10/05/2025

If you're married and keep separate finances, you're not a team—you're just roommates with wedding rings.

Married couples need to budget their money together. You’re married. You’re not roommates. Money shouldn’t be a “me” thing, it should be a “we” thing.

I do not have an income. My wife and I have an income. It’s as much hers as it is mine—spiritually, morally, and legally. It’s not MINE, it’s OURS.

When you change your language like that, it forces you set goals together. It forces you to dream together. It forces you to carry the weight together. It forces you to communicate. It creates a level of unity that nothing else will do.

27/04/2025

Men don’t realize that most women don’t fall out of love overnight, and they definitely don’t fall out of love because of another man. It’s not someone else stepping in that breaks her heart — it’s you stepping back. It’s the missed calls, the forgotten efforts, the way you stopped looking at her like she was your everything and started treating her like she was just… there.
She falls out of love after too many nights spent questioning her worth while sitting next to a man who made her feel alone. She falls out of love after being vulnerable with someone who made her feel like her feelings were “too much.” She falls out of love when her emotional needs are consistently ignored and when the little things that once made her smile suddenly become things she has to beg for.
It’s the broken promises. The ones you swore you’d keep. The ones she believed with her whole heart. She held onto your words, even when your actions didn’t back them up. And eventually, the disappointment begins to outweigh the hope.
It’s the lack of effort. How she used to feel chosen, prioritized, seen… and now she feels like a backup plan to your distractions. You stopped courting her. You stopped learning her. You got comfortable, and in that comfort, you forgot that love requires maintenance, not autopilot.
It’s the poor communication. The way you shut down instead of opening up. The way she had to play detective just to understand what was going on in your head or your heart. She needed transparency, but she got silence.
It’s the emotional neglect. She was always pouring, but never receiving. She was always cheering for you, holding you down, believing in you....but when she needed someone to lean on, you disappeared. She stopped asking for support because she got tired of being disappointed.
It’s the absence of empathy. The way you dismissed her emotions, told her she was overthinking, or made her feel like expressing herself was a burden. When a woman has to silence her voice to keep the peace, she eventually forgets how to speak in love at all.
So no, you didn’t lose her to another man. You lost her because you stopped doing the things that made her feel safe, loved, and emotionally seen. You lost her because you thought she’d stay forever, even while she felt emotionally starved. You thought her loyalty would keep her, but even the most loyal woman eventually gets tired of feeling like an afterthought.
A woman doesn’t need another man to walk away… she just needs to realize she’s been walking alone for far too long.

14/04/2025

I WAS ASKED HOW TO MEDITATE

What do you think is meditation? If you are concentrating on something—a sound, a light, or an image, then it is not meditation. It is concentration or contemplation. You cannot meditate “on” something, since true meditation is contentless consciousness.

You may project the query Who am I? into the deeps of your being—but do not repeat it like a parrot. It is not a mantra. It is a query to be thrown into consciousness without expectation of a response.

In fact, there is no mental response to be had. The answer is to be experientially felt.

The very questioning is making one aware of this ‘answer.’

Otherwise, sitting down and ‘meditating’ for an hour or so, ineffectually trying to stop thoughts, is just for beginners. At best, many practitioners often only manage to achieve a temporary blank or void. But blankness is nowhere near an Awareness of the Self.

After fifteen years or so of daily sitting and attempting to blot out the mind-flow by concentrating on this or that, I came to realise that this kind of part-time ‘meditation’ was not helping me. In fact, it was not meditation at all.

True meditation is simply remaining continuously conscious of your ‘existence’ in the heart centre at every moment, day and night (no matter what else you are doing).

A practical method to begin with, is to constantly fix your attention in the ‘Witnessing Consciousness’—that which is witnessing the thoughts without getting involved in them or any of the things visualised. You will eventually begin to realise that this is ‘you’, rather than the ‘I’ you have cultivated and to which you have attached yourself.

As your practice deepens, there is no spectacular inner event that occurs. It is just that Self-realisation either gradually or suddenly becomes apparent. When this mode of functioning becomes automatic and effortless, even the Witness consciousness finally dissolves and then there remains just what is—the Awareness—otherwise known as the Self.

This is the direct path.

An extract from “You Are the Light” (an unpublished work in progress)”

© Muz Murray, 2012