Reading List – On Life

Hollywood Medium Tyler Henry Has a Waiting List 600,000 People Long.

I would say for me, one of the greatest pieces of advice I was ever given is that someone told me, ‘Tyler, you can be the biggest, juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be people who hate peaches.’

Please help me understand Alan Watts later years and death

But in the end it is hard to practice Buddhism while existing in society. He had many complications and attachments: friends, family, career, money ect that buddhist monks do not. It is a incredible juggling act to both maintain worldy attachments and ones oneness with the universe.. This is all speculation on my part, and I do not mean to cast judgment or misrepresent the man’s existence.

When depression knocks at your door

A wondering: how powerful are we, even when we are in the throes of grief, pain, and desperation? In what ways can we tend to the proof of our power, more than we tend to the proof of our pain? If it’s possible to feel the depths of despair, isn’t it also possible to feel the length of bliss? The width of satisfaction? The magnitude of being here, being alive, together?

7 Truths For Navigating Your Dark Night Of The Soul Journey.

“I see everything in my life as guided by spirit. My ego gets in the way, but when I listen to the profound place within and live in alignment, I’m guided to exactly where I need to be. Even when I know, there have been times I’ve gotten off track and slipped back into the need for external validation and recognition. It hasn’t turned out very well, but I needed to experience that to learn something. Even though it’s agonizing, there’s been a lesson I was meant to learn.”

An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)

There are no literal sins in the world because there is no literal God and hence the whole religious superstructure that would include such categories as sin and evil. Just so, I now maintain, nothing is literally right or wrong because there is no Morality. Yet, as with the non-existence of God, we human beings can still discover plenty of completely-naturally-explainable internal resources for motivating certain preferences.

Fame

So my limited fame fills a hole, an old fear that I’d never amount to anything, I’d remain invisible and … alone. The hole leaks, though, so it never fills up. Recognition from strangers, as you age, feels increasingly like empty calories. The affection people have for you is for your public representative … it’s not really for you — they don’t know you. And if they did, they’d likely be disappointed. I believe the last sentence illustrates what people call impostor’s syndrome.

Fame

So my limited fame fills a hole, an old fear that I’d never amount to anything, I’d remain invisible and … alone. The hole leaks, though, so it never fills up. Recognition from strangers, as you age, feels increasingly like empty calories. The affection people have for you is for your public representative … it’s not really for you — they don’t know you. And if they did, they’d likely be disappointed. I believe the last sentence illustrates what people call impostor’s syndrome.

The 3 Paradoxes of Life (And How They Determine Who We Are)

Easier said than done. And remember, these don’t get rid of the struggles of life… they simply point your struggles in the right direction. These are skills that we must develop within ourselves. They must be practiced and perfected, like bowling or making funny ice sculptures. They are skills that help you use your dissatisfaction to your advantage rather than your disadvantage. Because these inherent tensions will always be within us and resolving them is a never-ending process—a tightrope that extends infinitely into the horizon. The best we can hope for is to simply get better at balancing.