What keeps me up at night in a negative way is, if we don't solve the problems of the human heart and of the human head, of human psychology, there i….

There are times when you felt especially important to another person, or cared about or loved or accepted. Well, loving relationships aren't somethin….

There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created in the modern ….

Antidepressant medications, you still have some depressive thoughts. Antipsychotic medications, you still have some psychotic symptoms for the vast m….

Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, o….

Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If sensations are your ….

Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the walls; it's not going to be solved in that….

I think we're coming into a time where it has to do with how you stand in relationship to your own world within and in relationship to those around y….

I kind of look at what's on the T-shirts and I see another solution, which also worries me. I see "Just do it." "No fear." - this kind of suppressive….

Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to….

Go inside the sweetness of life, catch the places where you genuinely were moved by or connected with life, and you'll find in there kind of a light ….

The changes that we can make in the culture can be there for people that we will never meet, that will never know us, and that's what keeps me up at ….

If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would as….

I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with th….

One dangerous definition of happiness is to think of happiness as kind of a warm, joyful feeling in your heart that you have to pursue and grab and h….

Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is a kind of self-invalidating, interiorly fo….

Let's take something like antidepressant medications. There's decent science saying it has an effect, but it's shockingly small after you control for….

Most people are hurt deeply by betrayals in relationships. It might be better to really get up against and sort of contact that caring, and maybe tak….

But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how….

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life..

Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with your abilit….