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Chances Are Life is Confusing When Your Frames Are Warped ▹

So much of our trouble in understanding others is a framing problem. Things in themselves are typically not super complicated. We look at them from all sorts of weird angles. You set your expectations. You boot up your prejudice. You prime all your fears and hopes — and this becomes the looking glass of interpretation. Why don't you just look at what is — as it is — and take it from there? See where that takes you. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Plates of Hidden Daily Wisdom · Passages of Nature Ignored ▹

Our lives are full of little rites of passage. Openings for thorough mindfulness — for the growth of wisdom and integration. Not just weddings and funerals. From the simplest things, like the food we eat and the meals we share. Pause and reflect on the origins, the journeys, and the terminals of all that is. The journey of the carrot and the farmer. It's all there — on your plate as the journey's tail. Witness all of life with eyes of wisdom. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Why Must We Avoid Suffering? · The Struggle Makes Us Whole ▹

Every lack, every absence, every shortcoming, every failure — there to lead you toward your fullness. If only you can look at it as it is. Accept, acknowledge, recognize the lessons you face. Instead of trying to avoid, escape, bypass, battle them. Every low tide and season of gloom, every shock and jolt and catastrophe. These teach you something about what is — they show you your reactivity. Embrace it. Study it all. 🍃Have You Considered? ▹

Consumed By Our Ideas vs. What We Actually Need in Life ▹

How thin the connection between what we have, what is, and our happiness and satisfaction. It has more to do with our ideas than what actually is. Chasing the attainment of ideas for satisfaction — an ever-moving goalpost. We're in a never-ending tunnel. Endless dead ends — and then the chase for another thing. Let's consider: Wants versus needs. We're consumed by our worries over ideas — and the ideas absorbed from others. Can anyone ever reach such a happy goal? 🍃Have You Considered? ▹