Category: Empower Me

What’s Gained in Loss

Loss seldom happens all at once. It’s a movement, an emptying that takes something away bit by bit until there’s nothing left to take apart but the memory. Like a cup made of ice melting into itself. The whole world, the entire cosmos… statues of melting ice. 

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The Need for Intolerance

Like the Buddha, we must learn to be intolerant.

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The Day I Broke Noble Silence (With Andrew Dice Clay)

Yes. I had just quoted the opening line of a dirty 1980s limerick. In a Buddhist silent retreat.

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What to Do With This New You

My recovery/mental health/self-care outlook now is simple: every big thing is made of lots of little things.

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