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Month: March 2021

March 29, 2021 Absurdism / Meaning / Mortality / Spirituality / Vanity

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

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March 23, 2021 Absurdism / Aging / Death / impermanence / Mortality / Spirituality

The Nostalgia Of Unlived Lives: Trying To Find Meaning In Ordinary Life

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

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March 20, 2021 anxiety / Buddhism / meditation / mental health / mindfulness / psychotherapy / Shadow Self / Spirituality / tonglen

What Are You Afraid of? The Shadow Self and Using Fear as a Tool For Awakening

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

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March 16, 2021 Tao Te Ching / Taoism

My Reflections on Tao Te Ching #1

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

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March 15, 2021 Alan Watts / Buddhism / meditation / mindfulness / tonglen

Three Meditations to Practice Non-Attachment and Let Go of the Self

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

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March 9, 2021 book review / books

Book Review: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

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

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March 7, 2021 Burnout / Compassion Fatigue

Thoughts On Emotional Burnout, Compassion Fatigue from a Therapist’s Experience

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

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March 2, 2021 capitalism / social media

Why Social Media Will Make You Feel Empty: Identity and Social Hierarchies In The Internet Age

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

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