By Eldad Ben-Moshe ✨ Reading Time: 5 minutes

❤ Hi there Better Lifers!

A young boy in Depression-era Wyoming, living in a one-room cabin with no electricity, no plumbing, and often no food.
His father abandons the family when he's just nine years old.
His mother works multiple jobs just to keep them...

By Eldad Ben-Moshe ✨ Reading Time: 5 minutes

❤ Hi there Better Lifers!

Have you ever faced a crisis that seemed impossible to overcome?

A crisis that consumed hope, your belief in your ability to make it, or even your desire to keep on going?

A crisis that, literally or figuratively, knocked ...

 
(By Eldad Ben-Moshe)

"Be a winner."

"You're such a loser."

"You have to win in life."

"Nice guys finish last."

"You'll never get anywhere in life."

Is culture putting too much on us?

And if so, is it really some external force (e.g., 'culture') that 'does it to us'?

And what does w...

(By Eldad Ben-Moshe ✨ Reading Time: 5 minutes)

Loved ones ❤

Ram Dass, one of my favorite teachers, shared this story once:

There was a monk who lived in the monastery up on the hill.
The local girl down in the village got pregnant by the fisherman.

She didn’t want to cause problems for ...

(By Eldad Ben-Moshe ✨ Reading Time: 3 minutes)

Loved ones ❤

Emotional pain is tough to handle sometimes, isn’t it? 

Life contains suffering and sadness alongside joy and pleasure.
In a world of duality, it's an inevitable part of the music of life.

How do you deal with emotional pain?
How do y...

(By Eldad Ben-Moshe ✨ Reading Time: 6 minutes)

Loved ones ❤

Last week a good friend asked me, “why do we have to suffer to grow?”

She’s having a hard time for some years now, and if that’s not enough,
about 2 months ago her big love left her, broken-hearted and disillusioned.

Not easy.

But she’...

(By Eldad Ben-Moshe ✨ Reading Time: 2 minutes)

Loved ones ❤

The ups and downs of life are as inevitable as the changing of the seasons.
Ok, I know what you think...

“Great Eldad, you became a poet? how does that help me?”

Well obviously my ‘poetry’ can't help you... 
But this story can.