I have been in an emotional roller coaster since last year. I found out my husband’s unfaithfulness and lies. I decided not to leave the relationship just because of this but I have tried to forgive everything he did to me. Everyday I ask Jesus to help me live my life and forget all the pain he caused me. I really want to stay in this marriage and trust him but I am torn apart. I have no peace of mind, no happiness whatsoever. I asked myself if I leave him will he find happiness and will I too? I see that he is meeting me halfway during this effort of reconciliation. How do I give fully trust this man? Whenever I leave for work, my toxic thoughts of him possibly sneaking around again poisons my mind. I want to stop and love myself.

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I wish to walk out of an intensely emotional relationship because I feel it is a bondage and restriction on my soul. But I feel deeply concerned about the happiness of the other person who loves me very much. How can I achieve both? How can I make him to accept this truth? Can I ask the universe to grant him every happiness and me my freedom? I really need both very badly.

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I am a big believer of healthy, non-violent communication and really try to be conscious of how I present what  I want to say so that I honor both myself and the other person. There are some times however when I’m facing a conflict situation, feel angry and then struggle with whether or not I should express it because I’m afraid of saying hurtful things.

I often times try to wait until I have a better grasp on my emotions but then have a tendency to just clam up and let things go. Where is the fine line between telling someone that you’re upset and when you can’t think of anything nice to say, as the saying goes, don’t say anything at all?

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I am 23 years old and yet I haven’t decided what I want to do in my life… Two years ago I was pretty sure that I wanted to be a director, then a poet, but now the passion for those ideas is gone and I’m really confused. What should I do to find out which is my real talent? I don’t want to waste any more time. Please if you could help me I would be grateful.

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I am a long time meditator. In the last few years I began to hear a straight line hum of a high frequency. My hearing is 100% perfect, I only hear the sound while meditating & it hum sounds the same regardless of where I am located on earth. What is going on?

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It seems like accepting paradox is the key to enlightenment and to our own peace of mind.  It seems that we are both a loving God/Oneness and individual “souls”.  And it seems that God is the same: someone we can pray to as well as being our own ultimate identity.  When Buddhists speak of “emptiness”, is this what they are alluding to?  Are we both individual souls and also NOT individual souls because our ultimate identity is God who is being us?

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I  have a difficult time staying awake when I meditate!  Location, time of day, physical position do not seem to impact this.  After I am able to stop thinking, I am aware of a short time of silence, then I vision (or is it dreaming), then I start to nod off.  I feel a strong desire to nap.  Sometimes I indulge this desire, sometimes I force myself into wakefulness.  I enjoy sleeping, going to bed around 10, falling asleep right away, awaking once or twice during the night but falling right back into sleep, and awaking between 5 and 6 each morning.  I’m generally alert and not tired during the day.  Any insights or recommendations?

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I have always been a very spiritually inclined person. For the past three years I have seen very close relatives die of natural causes, murder and now suicide. I have learned the process of grieving, but with this one it has just left me with so many questions, about life in itself. I have always believed in destiny and Karma.

How do I make this type of death make sense to my spiritual and emotional grounding?

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