• The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paraparadoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
• The more you desperately want to be sexy and desired, the uglier you come to see yourself, regardless of your ...

The theory is that if everyone has high self-esteem, then everyone will be successful and live a happy life. If a society was inoculated with high self-esteem, it would end poverty, crime, and violence.

But, one should take into account that high self-esteem could be the result of success, ...

Poverty is involuntary and debilitating, whereas simplicity is voluntary and enabling.

It is very misleading to equate simplicity with poverty, even if some spiritual traditions have advocated a life of extreme renunciation. A life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and ...