Sublime

When you’ve shifted your baseline from “survive” to “thrive” and have detached from outcomes, you can enjoy what each day brings.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these three crucial points: bring your mind home, and release, and relax.

To know thyself is to not take all the praise to head or take all the shaming to heart. To know ourselves is to write our values in cement even if our goals are in sand.

You offer not perfection but commitment to make amends for failures, to make restitution for losses. This is a flexible (and therefore adult) presentation of your self. It preserves you from the expectation by others that you can be counted on absolutely, or the verdict of others that you be discounted absolutely. “To live is to change and to be pe

You’ll do what you can, you won’t do what you can’t, and the tyrannical inner voice insisting that you must do everything is simply mistaken.

Traits

Just being.

once you no longer need to convince yourself that you’ll do everything that needs doing, you’re free to focus on doing a few things that count.

AEIOUY. A = Have I been Abstinent today? (However you define that—it’s way more challenging to define abstinence when it comes to things like food, work, and the computer, but the process of defining what it means to you is worth the effort. It changed my life.) E = Have I Exercised today? I = What have I done for myself today? O = What have I done