"We are like pellets of incense falling on the altar. Some collapse sooner, others later, but it makes no difference."-Marcus Aurelius

• Measuring ourselves against others makes acceptance difficult, because we want what they have, not what we happen to have. But that makes no ...

We don’t actually fool anyone when we're trying to look happy, but our real feelings are far from positive.

Our expressions expose us and are registered and mirrored by other people. So trying to suppress negative emotions actually increases stress levels of both people more than if we had ...

It's the way we heal each other. In poetries, novels, musics, dancing, acting. In telling our story, in inviting you to say. "Hey, listen to me and I'll listen to you", we're starting a dialogue and the healing happens and we're coming out of our corners, we start witnessing each other's common h...