How to be Honest with Yourself - Daily Wisdom #20

"Alone" is a word we use every day that has changed its meaning under us, and I would like to spend some time with it, because the change explains a great deal about why so many of us feel the way we ...

19 Sep 20min

Today I want to talk about timing. About the sense, which some people seem to have and most of us feel we lack, of when to act and when to wait, when to speak and when to hold back, when a thing is re...

16 Sep 21min

Being understood is one of the ways we feel close to another person. There is a particular ease in knowing someone can see the intention behind an awkward sentence, or recognise tiredness in a silence...

12 Sep 24min

Watch what the mind does with happiness. It rarely just takes it.I want to be careful here, because it would be easy to describe all that as a failure of presence and leave you feeling you have been d...

8 Sep 23min

I want to talk about the story we tell ourselves when something ends. And about the fact that almost all of us have only one story available, and it is a story about failure.More resources:Free resour...

6 Sep 27min

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.More resources:Free resources, books and more on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://wordsoftaoism.com/⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠My Subst...

1 Sep 19min

Most of us have promised ourselves, at some point, that we would live more simply.More resources:Free resources, books and more on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://wordsoftaoism.com/⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠My Substack Bl...

29 Aug 19min

Today I'd like to talk with you about something almost everyone treats as a weakness, and which I think has been badly misunderstood: the fact that we care, often a great deal, about what other people...

24 Aug 29min