Tag: balance

  • Cultivate Equanimity

    Cultivate Equanimity

    If your mind becomes firm like a rock And no longer shakes In a world where everything is shaking Your mind will be your greatest friend And suffering will not come your way. -poem from the Therigatha Steadiness and strength of mind in the midst of stress, chaos and uncertainty of life, is not a…

  • Off Balance On Purpose by Dan Thurmon

    Dan Thurmon: Off Balance On Purpose We long for a sense of balance, a sense of completion, a sense where all of our efforts even out. Life balance is a concept that is intriguing, desireable, and I believe completely unrealistic. You will never achieve perfect balance, and neither will I which is why I’ve given…

  • Doing What Feels Right

    Doing What Feels Right: Preface I’ve decided to take a novel new approach to living. This decision will effect the decisions I make every day that ultimately affect the course of my life. This decision will effect every thought that passes through my head in every waking minute. Let’s call this novel new approach to…

  • Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work

    Certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day to day basis with a young family. The reality of the society that we’re in is that there are thousansd and thousands and people of out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they working long hard hours at…