It’s well past bedtime. Most of the water that was in the bath is now on the bathroom floor. Both kids are still sitting in an empty tub, delighted. All I want in the world is for them to be asleep and no longer my problem, like yesterday if possible. “My kingdom for sleeping children!”
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I asked my six-year-old if he knew a calm, quiet place inside him. He said yes. Immediately, zero hesitation, no asking what I meant. Zach is six. He hasn’t done a ten-day silent retreat. He doesn’t sit crosslegged with a straight back, ignoring his throbbing knees and numb ankles with heroic equanimity. He doesn’t try
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A lady on my course this weekend thought she was doing it wrong. Turns out she was the one getting it right.
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Most people who come to me ask for a calmer mind. What they describe afterwards is something else completely. They almost all reach for the same word, and it’s not “calm.”
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Turns out the harder you try, the muddier it stays.
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There’s a difference between living and being alive. Most of us feel the gap, but few of us know how to close it.
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Beneath the mental noise is the depth, wonder, and aliveness you’ve spent so long looking for elsewhere. Here is the antidote to being quietly hollowed out by a world that never stops.
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We spend our whole lives living in a way that was copied from others copying others. There is no inevitability to any of this.
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That flatness you feel in the middle of what, by all external counts, is a pretty good life? It isn’t ingratitude. It has a name…
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In a world obsessed with optimisation, contentment can feel almost rebellious.
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