The terrifying and also mundane forces that press on us every day eventually deceive us into viewing our lives through pessimistic, suspicious eyes. As happiness is treated like a rare luxury and compassion is supplanted by apathy and even brutality, the once-joyful and once-compassionate and once-idealistic among us choose a pose that’s above all... See more

Oh, so much gives me hope. I’m a happy girl. But what I love about the work I do is that it makes us see that hope is less important. We in the West, particularly us Americans, enshrine hope. We’re constantly taking our pulse as to whether we’re hopeful or hopeless, whether we’re optimistic. I think that’s a waste of time! In the Buddhadharma, the

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