March 2021 – Buddhist Therapist

All Is Vanity: The Folly of Human Ambition

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1 I am the most important person

The most painful memories are the lives we’ve never got to live, the choices we never got to make. As

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at

1 The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not

The so-called self is a construct of words and memories, of fantasies which have no existence in immediate reality. The

Few pieces of art create a sense of awe within me. Terrence Malick’s films, especially Tree of Life, do. So

Today the cool ocean air flicks my skin like fingertips. I am walking, lost in melancholy, lost in grief, but

I loved social media. I loved that I was never bored, that any time I felt empty or alone, I