After the ecstasy, it is said, comes the laundry.
After five minutes, or ten, or fifteen—it doesn’t matter—open your eyes and resume your day. For a moment or two things might seem more alive.
Much of what we think of as relational knowing—joking around, expressing affection, and making friends5—is based in this kind of memory. We know how to do it without thinking about it. It does not req...
Painful or frightening affect becomes traumatic when the attunement that the child needs to assist in its tolerance, containment, and integration is profoundly absent,8 writes Robert Stolorow, a philo...
Primitive agonies exist in many of us. Originating in painful experiences that occurred before we had the cognitive capacities to know what was happening, they tend to blindside us, traumatizing us ag...
Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.
According to Buddhism, it is our fear at experiencing ourselves directly that creates suffering.
Stillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them.
Subliminally, the Buddha was saying, we are all tending these fires (of greed, hatred, and delusion), motivated as we are by our insecure place in the world, by the feeling, the dukkha, of not fitting...
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