People have two needs. Attachment. Authenticity. When authenticity threatens attachment, attachment trumps authenticity. - Gabor Mate, MD, author of When the Body Says "No"Most of us weren't taught what energetic boundaries are and even fewer of us were taught as children how to set them. An energetic boundary is like an invisible layer o...
I've been wanting to write about empathy and compassion for a couple of weeks. I keep seeing headlines in popular media that refer to the "decline of empathy in America", especially in response to the public actions of a certain political candidate and some of his supporters. I want to challenge any statements suggesting our nation is la...
A LONGING TO HELP
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on March 23, 2016
Bodhi means "awake" and citta means "heart-mind." Bodhicitta is a longing, a yearning, that comes to fortunate people to wake up, and specifically to wake up so they can be of help to other people and to the earth. It's very common that people want to be free of suffering and go about it in ways that just increase their sufferi...
