This Will Never Happen Again

Park. Turn off the ignition. Before you exit the carriage, pause for a moment. Now, I should clarify that by pause I don’t mean, “wait.” There is nothing to wait for if you are pausing. To pause is to stop and pay attention. To wait is to stop your body while you continue to the next moment in your head. For a proper parking-lot-crossing — or a pro

Don’t ever forget it: no matter what you’ve been up to, you’ve been doing your life’s work.

Every horrible story in your newspaper is somebody seeking a feeling they think will bring them closer to happiness — or more often, take them farther from unhappiness. They don’t realize it’s feelings they’re seeking though. They believe that a particular change in the material world is what they want.

It’s bizarre to me that we all value quality of life more than anything, yet it’s relatively unpopular to make a habit of reflecting on how to get better at creating it. Our schools teach math, history and dodge ball without a second thought, yet there is almost no time spent on learning how to stop your thoughts from keeping you awake at night, ho

that happiness has little to do with the state of the outside world and everything to do with the state of the inside world. Often the insight is left at that, maybe using an analogy about playing cards, with no discussion about how to actually do that in real life. So in the absence of a snappier explanation, that’s what Raptitude is about: a plai