When my little boy gets upset about something like when I don’t play his impromptu game “correctly” (fluid definition!) or if a classmate called him a silly name, I point out that he is choosing to stay upset about it. I get him to giggle and then he must confront the cognitive dissonance of laughing while also being upset. I ask him if he will cho... See more

I think it is important to separate the idea that we are making decisions in our day to day life from whether or not we are making these decisions completely of our free will.. For instance., the types of decisions that you make when you move your arm certainly seem to be made by us. We make decisions everyday to do things in our lives. However, th... See more

we know that we are unable accurately to introspect about the workings of our minds. We thematize the results of our introspection in certain ways. One way we tend to thematize the experience of a particular intention is to adopt it as a product that arises solely from some exercise of free (causally-exempt) will.

The shift in the role of the press to storytelling has led to the presentation of narratives in news instead of factual reporting, impacting human behavior by shaping perceptions and actions through character emulation.

Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson on the shortness of life:

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

" To live more voluntarily is to live more deliberately, intentionally, and purposefully —in short, it is to live more consciously ... To live more simply is to live in harmony with the vast ecology of all life . It is to live with balance—taking no more than we require and, at the same time, giving fully of ourselves ... Voluntary simplicity is a ... See more

We too often think that deep conversations have to be painful or vulnerable conversations. I try to compensate for that by asking questions about the positive sides of life: “Tell me about a time you adapted to change.” “What’s working really well in your life?” “What are you most self-confident about?” “Which of your five senses is strongest?” “Ha

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You yourself actually are not so much an entity that moves around in an environment. You are much more like a whirlpool in a stream. The whirlpool is constant only in its doing, that is to say in its whirling. And, you could recognize individual whirligigs in a stream, but the water is flowing through them all the time. They are never the same for ... See more

One thing that arises when we recognize the wonder of consciousness is compassion for other conscious beings. This includes those with whom we have entered into relationships who rely on us in various ways. But we become more effective as a parent, spouse, friend, employee, etc. when we do not try to hold on to what we cannot keep or reach for what... See more