Category: Growth & Development

There’s a space of groundlessness in front of me. In fact, I can see myself standing within it. Yet I don’t know how to get from here to there. I don’t know how to step…

In Buddhism we call the notion of a fixed identity “ego clinging.” It’s how we try to put solid ground under our feet in an ever-shifting world. Meditation practice starts to erode that fixed identity.…

If there is no such map, then what is wayfinding? Instead of what he calls a “complex-structure metaphor” (the mental map), Ingold proposes a “complex-process metaphor” which he calls wayfinding. On page 220, he writes:…

Every living being, accordingly, grows and reaches out into the environment along the sum of its paths. To find one’s way is to advance along a line of growth, in a world which is never…

But the other thing is that nature has been left out and nothing shows how fundamentally difficult it is than Mark Carney’s book that he wrote before he became a politician. The first chapter he…

Yeah, so simply put, pain is our body’s warning system. It’s our danger-detection system. And it’s adaptive and evolutionary, right? Like, pain helps us survive. It tells us, “Pay attention. You may need to change…

Identity is much less likely to be the result of a single breakthrough “aha!” moment and more of a continuous cycle of exploration, commitment, and reevaluation. Even the foundational work on identity formation by Erik…

Don’t try to change what has already been done. Just change going forwards.

But even that I couldn’t have explained at the time, it took years before I could verbalize something like this, what I’m saying now. But it is basically a very simple thing. It’s a very,…