Philosophy

Living Like Hermit Crabs

Finding and re-creating yourself is a lifelong journey marked out in moments. It’s an apparent paradox: we’ll never be “there”, yet we’re always trying to get there. Patience and persistence keep this paradox taut. Patience helps us celebrate, appreciate, and acknowledge both what we have and that we’re in process. Persistence reminds us that we [...]

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The Zen of Working with Difficult Clients

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Karl Staib. If you work for yourself you’ve had an annoying client that just doesn’t seem worth your time. You can’t stop this from happening, but you can find your inner zen to turn this seemingly bad experience into a good one. I say this because I’m [...]

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How Is Your Perfectionism Feeding You?

Are you grappling with perfectionism? Rather than addressing the symptoms of perfectionism, let’s talk about one of its roots. There are others, but I’ll focus on one today. Take a second to think about the story you tell yourself about being a perfectionist and pouring excess effort into completing something. Is it that if you [...]

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When It’s Okay To Use People

Act that you use humanity, whether in your person or in another, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.- Immanuel Kant You’re using me right now. You’ve been using people all of your life. And, in most cases, that’s okay. The quote above is a translation of Immanuel Kant’s [...]

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What I Believe

I believe … that we should measure our worth in lives changed rather than dollars made. we each have something to contribute to the world and it’s our life’s work to find the best ways to do it. there’s more than enough for everyone if we use our imagination to share rather than to hoard. [...]

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Every Moment Is A Chance To Practice

Many of us live by high ideals. The challenge of living with such high ideals is that we often find we don’t live up to them. We want to be openly generous and accidentally short-change a waiter. We want to support our friends and yet another week slides away with no contact. We believe in [...]

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Which Type of Love Are You Cultivating?

Today is Valentine’s Day and many of us are thinking about love. Unfortunately for us, we’re trying to separate the many different meanings of love at the same time, for many modern languages only have one word whose context determines the appropriate meaning. The Greeks were better off in this regard, for they had at [...]

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Take Care of Others by Taking Care of Yourself First

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vlad Dolezal from Fun Life Development. It was the beginning of spring. The snow had just melted, and Agatha the Spider had gone outside after hiding in an old barn all winter, to find a nice convenient spot to place her first spring spider web. After walking [...]

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Teach Girls, End World Poverty

The amount of suffering and death caused as a result of poverty is staggering. The poorest 46 percent of people in the world have a mere 1.2 per cent of the income. One-third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including 12 million children under the age of five.* Numbers don’t [...]

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