Everything is practice
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”Rainer Maria Rilke For just about all of us, every day brings some disappointment, even if small, if…
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May 30, 2022
Review of 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
I finished this moderate-length book very quickly, which I attribute to it being a very well-written, thought-provoking, and intelligently articulated work. I listened to the audio version, and the narration…
March 19, 2022
Non-resistance
"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all."Buddah After…
September 16, 2021
Acceptance vs defeat
“All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real…
July 31, 2021
Watching experience as if it were a film
The other day I was jogging / hiking and listening to an audiobook. Or maybe it was a podcast. I don’t remember, and that is telling. It was just noise…
July 16, 2021
A “bad attitude” is okay sometimes
Most people tend to associate attitude with emotions and thoughts, rather than actions and words. Telling people to "have a better attitude" often upsets them because they don't have as…
May 13, 2020
There is nothing wrong with wanting things
As a therapist, a common phrase I hear people say is, "I shouldn't want…” (e.g., a nicer family, more talent, more desirable circumstances, more ability, etc…). Of course, this is…
April 22, 2020
“I took the one less traveled by…” and who knows how it would have been otherwise?
There are so many roads not taken “that have made all the difference” (Robert Frost)... but do they all? How would we even know? Maybe there would have been very…
September 1, 2019