Lesson
Sam Harris
Understand how recognizing the truth of impermanence can improve your life.
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Oliver Burkeman
Embrace life's unpredictability, rather than resisting it.
Shireen Rizvi
Your thoughts can be charged with emotion, detached through reason, or balanced by wisdom.
Seth Gillihan
Learn to feel anger without acting on it, and to manage the factors that trigger it.
Donald Robertson
Purposeful planning can help bridge the gap between abstract priority and daily action.
Mark Matousek
Reframing our challenges as someone else’s can ease reactivity and widen perspective.
Kieran Setiya
Notice the difference between mistakes and failures—and regret itself.
Feelings of urgency are poor signs of importance, and they rob us of joy and presence.
Amanda Knox
“We were unsure of what was wrong and what that would mean for us. I wept.”
Meditation
Sink into the feeling of loving-kindness while wishing wellness toward another.
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