Unfortunately, it can be hard to separate these things out, especially when anxious thoughts tell you that situations or reactions are your fault when actually they’re not.

Do you ever really stop what you are doing in your daily routines, and just think, “Who am I?” You know, why am I here, why do I see things in the world like I do, why do I do things as I do ...

Mystics of every tradition speak of the perfection of things as they are. Any moment, every moment, can be experienced, when we’re in the condition of full openness, as ripeness.

They can talk about neural pathways and neurotransmitters as if those big words definitively concluded anything, which they don’t, at least with our current understanding of such things.

Andrew: And next week, we will see their latest battle, against a regime whose legitimacy has gone, whose isolation around the world is deeper than at any time in its history, and whose fate is as ...

Lee, who prefers to look at things as they are, constructs a deliberately prosaic world where Mija’s employer can make a grand gesture out of tipping her the equivalent of nine bucks, and the ...

Then after a while they will become agreeably accustomed to it, provided they are suited to each other. Natural laws as a rule operate gradually. I think probably the rule applies here.