A piece of wisdom from
November 12, 2025 · Wednesday
The quote
“I love you is a sentence that does the work of a lifetime, if you are willing to mean it.”
— Morrnah Simeona · Hoʻoponopono
The concept
Sisu
The Finnish word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone.
Two hundred days of darkness a year. Forty below in winter. Russia next door. The Finns had to invent a word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone, and they named it sisu. Sisu is not grit. Not resilience. Not courage.…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Sisu. The Finnish word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 4.8
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥
“For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I am born age after age.”
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