Daniel Wentsch

When we practice Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ourselves becoming the deity and embodying (and radiating) these awakened qualities of being. We use our imagination to cultivate — or more accurately reveal — our true awakened nature.

To put it simply, imagining yourself as your best self helps you become your best self.

While Vipassana

The way attention and peripheral awareness work together is a lot like the relationship between visual focus and peripheral vision. Try fixing your eyes on an external object. You will notice that, as you focus on the object, your peripheral vision takes in other information elsewhere in your field of vision. You can compare that with your

Denn gerade ihnen steht der Rückzug aus der schrecklichen Umwelt und die Einkehr in ein Reich geistiger Freiheit und inneren Reichtums offen. So und nur so ist die Paradoxie zu verstehen, daß manchmal die zarter Konstituierten das Lagerleben besser überstehen konnten als die robusteren Naturen.

The key to optimum breathing, and all the health, endurance, and longevity benefits that come with it, is to practice fewer inhales and exhales in a smaller volume. To breathe, but to breathe less.

You don’t need interesting material. You’re not performing for an audience. You can write about why you chose the lunch you chose, or what you noticed on the walk to the store, or a single, unmarked moment in a conversation that stuck with you. The point isn’t to produce great content. The point is to practice putting thoughts into words.

In an emotionally healthy childhood, the child can see that the good carer isn’t either entirely good or wholly bad and so isn’t worthy of either idealization or denigration. The child accepts the faults and virtues of the carer with melancholy maturity and gratitude—and in doing so, by extension, becomes ready to accept that everyone they like

“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being… we are here to become more and more ourselves.” ― James Hollis, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life