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May 10, 2022 Emotional Maturity / Everything Everywhere All At Once / growth / meditation / movies / psychotherapy / Spirituality

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” and The Arc of Emotional Maturity

Firstly, apologies for the lack of posts of late! Momentum is really strange, it snowballs one way or the other.

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March 28, 2022 Compassion / perfectionism / psychotherapy / self love / self-compassion / social media / Spirituality

Against Perfectionism Or How to Enjoy Being a Fuck Up

Perfectionism is a disease among my patients. People’s inner dialogues these days are unrelenting. The oddity of this all is

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March 14, 2022 Absurdism / bodhisattva / Buddhism / Death / grief / Spirituality / suffering

Nihilism or Optimism? More Thoughts on Grief

(My apologies in advance for writing about grief again. I wish my mind was elsewhere, but I suppose that’s what

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March 10, 2022 civilization / Freud / Religion / sex / Shadow Self / Spirituality

Our Instincts Are Who We Are: Finding Our Way in the Mess of Civilization

Recently I reread Fernando Pessoa’s  “The Book of Disquiet.” (If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it.) In a

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February 22, 2022 Musings / self-compassion / Spirituality / Tao Te Ching

Thinking About Paradox

A quote from the Tao Te Ching hangs in my line of vision as I write this:  “The universe is

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February 4, 2022 anxiety / Buddhism / Compassion / feelings / meditation / mindfulness / self-compassion / Spirituality

The Joy of The Present: Dealing With Anxiety Using Mindfulness

Most of us accept the reality given to us. That includes our thoughts and feelings. After all, if we think

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February 1, 2022 Cars / mindfulness / Modernity / Nature / Reflection / Spirituality

The Dreadfulness of Cars

Just a quick reflection on something I have been thinking about a lot lately…  In Richmond, British Columbia, where I

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December 23, 2021 Absurdism / film / Karl Marx / mental health / psychotherapy / Spirituality

How “The Matrix Resurrections” Critiques Psychotherapy

I loved the new Matrix movie. I felt skeptical initially. Another reboot? I watched it only because my parents wanted

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December 5, 2021 Buddhism / Compassion / Death / Meaning / Mortality / psychedelics / Spirituality / suffering

The Dance of Life: The Endless Sway Between Joy, Power and Pain

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.”-

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October 31, 2021 boredom / social media / solitude / Spirituality

The Wisdom of Boredom: Finding Creativity and Spirituality in the Age of Facebook

A recent observation: we are a society that hates boredom. After all, why be bored when we have so many

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September 21, 2021 awe / mindfulness / Musings / Spirituality

The Wonders of Supermarkets: Finding Awe in Everyday Life

In adulthood, it can feel like there are few opportunities for real possibility in one’s daily life. We are slaves

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August 2, 2021 Koan / meditation / mindfulness / Spirituality / Zen

My Most Important Meditation Insight

I’ve written ad nauseam about meditation, and you’re probably tired of hearing about it. But it is an endlessly important

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July 26, 2021 Buddhism / meditation / psychotherapy / Spirituality / suffering

Suffering With Grace

It’s been a while! I have no excuses really except that I was on vacation and tried to write a

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July 4, 2021 Absurdism / Buddhism / Illusion / Rational / Spirituality

Beyond Reason: Thoughts on The Rational and The Illusion of Life

Recently I’ve had the thought that rationality or even science is not “objective” but is its own worldview. It may

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June 13, 2021 Buddhism / Reason / Religion / Spirituality

The Wisdom of Unreason or Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater

Once a monk made a request of Joshu. “I have just entered the monastery,” he said. “Please give me instructions,

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