November 2019

So today was Black Friday, which I’ve been hearing about from stores and advertisers that this is a big event, it’s almost become like a new holiday, but it still seems very strange to me. The idea of Black Friday is it’s the day after American Thanksgiving, which is the fourth Thursday in November. And […]

My first-ever comment, from Youtuber Reading Classics, who mentions the idea that many people are masters of suffering. And I like the idea of training and education, the idea that everything we do is our training and our education, and we can look at it that way. It’s putting in the hours, it’s going to

Got a question from listener Valexis on self-censorship. She is an artist with some very dark material, and she’s concerned that it may be taken the wrong way and could actually have a negative, harmful effect on people. But at the same time, it could also have a powerful cathartic effect and be helpful. So

Patience is a wonderful thing. What would we do without the ability to let things happen over time? The lack of patience is wanting to have everything right away, and very few good things happen immediately at the snap of the fingers. In fact, this is one of the easiest ways to fall into the

A response I sometimes get to notions of self-development, changing ourselves, is the idea that, for me, it’s too late. I’m too old. I missed my chance, and now there’s no point in me making all these changes. I’m just too far behind. And it’s very understandable to have this feeling, that we sort of

Time is one of those tricky things, because it doesn’t really exist in a way that we can really grab it. And yet we can almost treat it like it exists. We can we can measure something that we call time, measure it through clocks, and then we can think about having certain numbers of

Well, it’s a sunny winter day here in Toronto, and this is about as bright and sunny as it gets here in the winter, just about noon, full sun. And throughout this winter, this is a time when those living in northern parts of the world are really feeling this kind of winter bleakness. There’s

A recurring feeling I get is wow, where did all the time go? And I know I’m certainly not alone with that feeling. It seems that, even though, if I look at my activities of the day, I’m not doing anything that is directly time-wasting. I seem to be using all my time towards a

Can you imagine if there was a meaning class in school? I mean, out of all the things that students are required to learn as part of their education, what if there was a class that actually was about why you should be learning what you’re learning in school, that can maybe answer the question

You know, a lot of this talk about escapism versus facing reality, working versus laziness or avoiding working, it’s presented in this kind of notion of what you should do. You should be working. And then you escape, you crave escapism, and then you feel, oh, this is something wrong with me. I should be