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Suffering, Flushing, Being Human
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...
The Simplest and Most Difficult Suggestion
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...
Before You Open Your Third Eye, How About Opening the First Two?
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. ...
I Will Take Care of You for a Week
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 a Coping Mechanism
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 be...
The Philosopher’s Worst Nightmare
When you wrestle with existential questions it’s inevitable to reach a certain intellectual end-point. That intellectual end-point is usually not a comfortable one because it comes with two bummers: - I don’t know anything except that I exist (and even ‘I’ is...
When Are You Done Working On Yourself?
If you're reading this I know you've worked on yourself plenty. You’ve laid all your problems out, felt every emotion there is, turned the lights on, faced the shadows, and done all you could to fix whatever you believed needed fixing. At what point are...
Your Ambition Is Killing You
Ambition is generally regarded as a good thing. The world loves go-getters. People who want to save the planet, populate other planets, and make Trillions of dollars while doing so. Whatever gets the boats floating. Ambition is telling you that you can’t...
Life Is Not About Improving but Accepting Yourself
For a long time, I unknowingly believed that the goal was to fix all the aspects of myself I deemed less than acceptable. (This is what the whole self-improvement market rests on.) In short, I tried to perfect myself. I was convinced I could only truly...
The Only Fool Who Doesn’t Become Wise Is the One Who Isn’t Foolish Enough
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.” — William Blake You’ve heard this one. Whether you understood it or not, you know it sounds wise. Perhaps Mr. Blake here has followed his own advice and has become a wise fool. But what...
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