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The irony of presence…

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I don’t want to cling to the past.

I don’t want to fixate on the future.

And…

I don’t want to hold on to the present.

I want reality. 

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This phase…

In this phase of my life, my goal is a seeming contradiction.

Training acceptance…

Lately, I’ve been studying Buddhism and Stoicism.

Why do I find meditation critical?

Mindfulness meditation, when done regularly over a long period of time, helps to create space between stimulus and response.

Nothing upsets us…

It is only our opinion of something that upsets us.

If you love…

If you love someone, you’ll suffer for them.

Wanting what we have…

The culture we live in amplifies our wants.

How easily we give it away…

We wouldn’t give away parts of our properties. We wouldn’t give away our money without a positive reason.

The balance…

There is value in visualising something as you want it to be, then making it that way.

Nothing new…

I hear lots of talk about how these are ‘unprecedented times.’

Want and worry…

Hope is generally seen as a good thing.