The Internet has become the great comforter and seems to offer it all: news, knowledge, music, entertainment, shopping, relationships, and even sex. But over time, it foments envy and division, confuses our needs and priorities, desensitize...
If I can help reduce the suffering of others, I will gladly do it."Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols is one of baseball's greats. His daughter, Isabella, has Down Syndrome, a genetic condition that causes delays in physical and intellectual growth. Albert and his wife, Deidre...
Joy happens as we enter into the joys of others.The meek get the most value out of others because they enter in the joys of others.Not being envious, they rejoice in the successes of others.Thus they live expansively, multiplying their own lives in the careers around them. —Ralph W. ...
JOYPSYCHIATRIC hospitalsThis article from Psychiatric Annals discusses the challenges and joys of practicing psychiatry. The challenges include a shortage of psychiatrists, overwhelming workloads, administrative tasks, inadequate reimbursement, and the emotional toll of dealing with patients' suffering and loss...
“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope” (Romans 5:3-4). Still, it seemed like such a great thought to me…that there was someone, out there, who was benefitting from their difficulties. It just...
If I can help reduc e th e suffering of others, I will gladly do it."Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols is on e of baseball's greats. His daught er, Isabella, has Down Syndrome, a genetic co ndition that causes delays in physical and int ellectual growth. Albert and ...
30. “We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human...
This tension between what we feel we can have and "what were seemingly able to have is the niggling suffering, the anxiety we feel. This is where we usually think it's easier to just give up. But we're never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more. The ...
Perhaps, too, the recognition of the existence of thatunlimited capacity to encompass both the ecstasy and the agony of living and being human, both heart-filling and heart-breakingenables me to maintain my connection to joy even in times of suffering. ...
Owning opportunities for growth, new insights, the deepening of our humanity and compassion by truly experiencing what we feel, is very different from avoidance. To me it implies that awareness of the thread that connects us to joy even when we are in the midst of suffering. ...