Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

consciousness is not solely our experience of reality; it is our experience of reality filtered and modulated by our expectations for it.

Fromm writes that true joy is “what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.”

The Sanskrit word viparinama-dukkha is translated roughly as “the dissatisfaction that results from clinging amidst change.” The entirety of Buddhist philosophy is about lessening this dissatisfaction by learning to accept and work with impermanence.

existential dilemma, or the undercurrent of confusion and fear that accompanies living in a vast world where everything is impermanent.

What is really happening right now and what can I do about it?

it is not so much change itself that causes harm, but our slow uptake of it, or in some cases, our downright resistance and refusal.

Whereas homeostasis describes a pattern of order, disorder, order, allostasis describes a pattern of order, disorder, reorder. Homeostasis states that following a disorder event, healthy systems return to stability where they started: X to Y to X. Allostasis states that healthy systems return to stability, but somewhere new: X to Y to Z.

Non-dual thinking recognizes that the world is complex, that much is nuanced, and that truth is often found in paradox: not this or that, but this and that.

When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”