Suffering can be difficult. Being taken on a ride of existential despair may feel like vacationing in a meat grinder. (That’s how I felt anyway.) But the pursuit of ending suffering can become its own biggest trap. The initial discontent and...
Accept yourself. It’s the simplest and most profound, yet the most difficult and trickiest suggestion anyone can ever give you. It doesn’t need much to realize that it makes sense. Nothing makes more sense. But the moment you try to do it, you...
People think spirituality is about contemplating lofty ideas, like God and souls and consciousness and higher dimensions and flying spaghetti monsters and so on. But spirituality is really the most pragmatic, rational, down-to-earth business there is. ...
When you look into a mirror, what do you see? You see a pile of flesh that we generally call a person. And this person in the mirror is the person you have learned to identify with. This person is associated with wishes, desires, fears, problems,...
Anxiety is modern society’s bread and butter. Social conditioning is the only reason anxiety is rampant in the first place. We’re conditioned to be anxious. If we had a bunch of psychiatrists rummaging around everyone’s psyches, most people could...