I've been practicing and teaching self-compassion for a long time now. My book on that topic, "This Difficult Thing of…
At the moment lot of people are suffering more than usual. They are anxious, exhausted, and overwhelmed about the awful…
There's an old story that goes something like this. A young man wants to learn to be an expert swordsman.…
You might think that the antidote to self-hatred is liking yourself. But is that desirable, or even possible? We all…
In the opening words to his book “The Road Less Traveled,” the late psychiatrist M. Scott Peck says: Life is…
The main quality we're cultivating when we meditate is mindfulness. Mindfulness is just another word for observing. To observe our…
I'm sure that sometimes you feel crap. The other week I was feeling particularly crappy. I have an idea what…
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With…
It was late in the evening when my son told me he'd left his backpack in the car. That's not…
We can experience different kinds of distracted thinking in meditation. There are obvious, compelling, and “in your face” thoughts in…