(portions of this article first appeared on positive psychology news daily: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/sean-doyle/2013032525681) In my first post on this topic, I concluded that in the face of hardship, injustice or deep trauma, the only answer was love and holding even tighter to kindness. This seems naive, trite. However whether in the…
. . . and when everything feels like it is too much, when the full density of world is slipping loose from tired fingers and there is just so much that you do not know, let yourself breathe, breathe into the realization that: I do not understand; I do not…
Sometimes things in life happen that shatter your world. I am not talking about those expected traumas, as raw and difficult as they may be: The death of a loved one or the way time starts our decay while we are still conscious and breathing. Even if we have banished…
Today’s news is filled with the devastation and havoc caused by Typhoon Haiyan. Current estimates are that there at over 10,000 dead. Ten Thousand. That is a holy number. In the Tao Te Ching, 10,000 is meant to refer to something innumerable, too large to count. It is also a…
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