Sometimes it’s best to give things some space.

• The desire for more positive experience is a negative experience and the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience. 
• The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it...

When we expect something positive and have a desire for something good, that very experience of want, or to covet, is in a way, a negative experience for us.

Referred to as the ‘Backwards Law’ by the modern philosopher Alan Watts, pursuing something only reinforces the fact that yo...

Here’s a paradox: the more you pursue the positives, the more negative you’ll feel. Those who desperately want to be rich, worthy or happy will only end up feeling poorer, more unworthy or unhappy. On the other hand, the more you accept the negatives in your life, the be...