It’s always a good time to ask yourself some of the important questions in life.

Do you dare to dream of figuring out your purpose in life? Have you touched the center of your own sorrow, and been opened – not closed – by life’s betrayals? Can you sit with pain without moving to hide it, fade it, or fix it?

Here’s an invitation to ask yourself some of those tough questions, and to be honest in your responses:

How do you handle the painful parts of your own inner journey? Share your thoughts below.

Feature photo: Eleaf

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About The Author

Christine Garvin

Christine Garvin is a certified Nutrition Educator and holds a MA in Holistic Health Education. She is the founder/editor of Living Holistically...with a sense of humor and co-founder of Confronting Love. When she is not out traveling the world, she is busy writing, doing yoga, and performing hip-hop and bhangra. She also likes to pretend living in her hippie town of Fairfax, CA is like being on vacation.

  • http://autostop.travel Carpool

    Great video!

  • http://www.placemix.com Placemix

    Beautiful and thought provoking. Thank you.

  • http://www.ethanlofton.com Ethan

    Thank you for the video! Ooh awesome surprise to see a photo i took used for the article.

  • Scott

    Someone read this piece before starting a 16 day raft trip through the Grand Canyon in 1990 . . . it still resonates with me. Thank You.

  • Leon

    Beautiful words, but why the unicorns and fairies and lift music? Sometimes less is more. But thanks to the video creator for bringing the words and their creator to my attention. Gonna go and find out more :)

    • http://exploretruth.com Veron

      Yeah…amazing words on this video!!! But I thought the unicorn was overkill too…;-)

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