Thought-Life Connection

• June 8, 2011

  The Mind That Concludes Without Checking

  There is a particular form of emotional suffering that is almost entirely self-generated: attaching strong feelings to situations that have not yet been verified as real. You conclude someone is…

• June 7, 2011

  What You Do With Love Comes Back to You

  There is a principle that sounds simple but changes everything when you actually practice it: put love into whatever you are doing. Not into the things you love already —…

• June 6, 2011

  The Process of Inversion

  To change is to create art. Every genuine, lasting transformation works exactly the way learning a musical instrument works — the movements that feel foreign and effortful at first become,…

• June 5, 2011

  The Real Cause of the Mid-Life Crisis

  For the first portion of most people’s lives, time feels like a friend — there is plenty of it ahead, the future is open, and the imagination runs forward with…

• June 4, 2011

  Why We Hold Back

  The term “self-fulfilling prophecy” is usually applied to failure — to the pattern of expecting things to go wrong and then having them go wrong. But the same principle works…