Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
As my thesis advisor, the anthropologist Michael Jackson,
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
(My teacher, Lee Ray, was one of his students.)
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, to be enlightened is to be free of obsessions.
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
Dorje Khyung Dzhong, a retreat center in a remote area of southern Colorado. DKD
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
Within our sangha, many of us joke that we’ve each come to Buddhism after trying everything else.
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
Too tired to get up and make dinner? Why not just stay here and check e-mail on your phone? Or tick off those little tasks you’ve accrued in your ‘Notes’ app?
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
Like that tagline from Girls: almost getting it kind of together. But never quite.
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
I conceived of that talent as a kind of unblemished possibility, a perfect potential energy that would one day find expression in grand and noble ways.
Matt Bieber • Life in the Loop: Essays on OCD
Every day, I feel all kinds of things I don’t want to feel, and it’s the easiest thing in the world to invent rules and guidelines in the hopes that I won’t have to feel them again.