Mental Health and Stress

Here’s a Buddhist suggestion for making this the best year of your life: treat it as the last year of your life.

Yeah, the Buddhists know how to party.

I have suggested that women look at men this way: if they took away their own network of intimate friends, those with whom they share their personal journey, removed their sense of instinctual guidance, concluded that they were almost wholly alone in the world, and understood that they would be defined only by standards of productivity external to... See more

When he did express his concerns, they were dismissed as his “male midlife crisis.” Essentially, though, women’s liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search—for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women’s liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an

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I can't stop thinking about this poem by Khalil Gibran:

Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow."

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And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

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And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.... See more