My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about... →
Joko Beck
There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more... →
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware... →
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us... →
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably... →
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older.... →
Martha Beck
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows... →
Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best... →
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they... →