Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
Martha Beck
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country... →
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of... →
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our... →
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just... →
The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get... →
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to... →
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty... →
The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the... →