This is why the skill of simple awareness is important, as is the ability to tolerate ambiguity. Psychologists David Gard and Lawrence Leung define ambiguity tolerance as “the ability to hold in mind complex psychosocial information without rushing to judgment or a conclusion about its meaning”. They go on to delineate that “the process of... See more

Contrary to the deep stories of consumerism and Western heroic mythology, interacting with meaning is actually something much closer to the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi (difficult to succinctly encapsulate, but basically the idea that beauty depends on the imperfect, incomplete, impermanent, humble, and unconventional) vs. a compulsive cycle of... See more