Living and surviving

What we do to survive is often very different from what we may need to do in order to live.

Suffering and happiness

A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

Only winning versus both winning and losing

The willingness to win or lose moves us out of an adversarial relationship to life and into a powerful kind of openness. From such a position, we can make a greater commitment to life. Not only pleasant life, or comfortable life, or our idea of life, but all life.

Credit

"You know, you can get a lot of good done in this world if you don't care who gets the credit."