Discover Why Suffering Happens—And How to End It
Would you like to understand the cause of suffering and how to end it? Please join me live on Zoom, Monday, April 13, 2026, starting at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. xoxo bk Register: https://thework.com/lets-do-the-work-with-byron-katie theworkofbyronkatie #byronkatie #innerwisdom #selfhelp #selfinquiry #healingjourney #selflovejourney #mindfulness #TheWork
Life's True Business: Collecting Memories
“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that’s all there is.” -Mr. Carson https://t.co/lXZXt5eHlc https://t.co/LY8VjDtxLn
Hope Inspires, Trust Delivers: Campo’s Key Distinction
How to make the impossible possible – Cristina Campo on the crucial difference between hope and trust https://t.co/rg0MiupH7N
Remember Impermanence, Slow Down, Truly Live
Entrepreneur Andrew Anabi on cherishing life, via @farnamstreet : “The best way to cherish life is to remind yourself of life's impermanence. It is to remember that every time you see someone that is one less time you see them. It...
Steinbeck Reveals Hope’s True Purpose Amid Consciousness
The tragic miracle of consciousness – John Steinbeck on the true meaning and purpose of hope https://t.co/80fH6KlRuD
Daily Mortality Reflection Sharpens Purpose and Presence
Some people don't like being reminded of their mortality, and I'll say it can feel unpleasant to ponder, but it does make life quite vivid and infuse it with a sense of purpose and poignancy. The Buddha actually had a...
Mortality Reminder Drives Life’s Biggest Decisions
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life." - Steve Jobs
Resilience, Burnout Relief, and the Cost of Being Used
At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in a single place – how to be a tree: notes on the resilience of letting go; Brian Eno's remedy for burnout and despair; and a meditation on being used:...
Mutual Happiness Extraction Leads to Relationship Pain
If you try to squeeze happiness out of someone, and they try to squeeze happiness out of you, the relationship will become painful over time. #SadhguruQuotes https://t.co/C20SM69shY
Live Fully, Forgive Often—Life Can Change in an Instant
“Those who died yesterday had plans for today. And those who died today had plans for tomorrow. Do not take life for granted. In a blink of an eye, everything can change. Forgive often and live with all of your heart. You...
Spinoza Meets Boltzmann Brain in Keating
The Book Spinoza Would Have Written If He Had Boltzmann’s Brain (Review of The Mattering Instinct by physicist Brian Keating) @platobooktour https://t.co/Ji8gHpQFeD
Mindful Cooking Transforms Chores Into Purposeful Self‑care
Mindful cooking connects me to my senses and brings me back to myself. It turns a chore into a sense of purpose. One where I get to give love to myself and others.
Create Anything, Even Badly, to Grow Your Soul
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible...
Aging as Creative Balance: Hold, Release, Thrive
The continuous creative act of holding on and letting go – 10 beautiful minds on the arts of growing older https://t.co/a7j0jwk1r8
Hear Your Mind, Choose What Truly Matters
Two thoughts from Michael A. Singer “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind, you are the one who hears it.” “It doesn’t matter what others do, unless you decide that...
Six Principles for Selfless Listening From Erich Fromm
6 rules of listening and unselfish understanding from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm https://t.co/72n1LPPUNl
Yoga Prepares You to Sustain Spiritual Experiences
Every human being has experienced something spiritual in their life. Everyone has broken the limitations of the physical body at some time, whether they label it that way or not. But to stay and sustain that experience needs preparation. Yoga...
Transcend Limiting Beliefs, Embrace What You Truly Deserve
The Truelove – David Whyte's moving meditation on transcending your limiting beliefs about what you deserve https://t.co/nZclZSmFu0
Happiness Is Growing Peacefully Within Yourself
"What is happiness but growth in peace." May Sarton's revelation of a poem about being at home in yourself https://t.co/G9xUIOPSmh
Curiosity in the Present Brings Peaceful Mindfulness
Instead of getting lost in the past or future become curious about this moment. What can you learn from it? What can you appreciate about it? The more mindful you become, the more peaceful you will feel. https://t.co/NBSKhAj8TI
Question Your Thoughts, Let Them Release You
I don't let go of thoughts—I question them, and they let go of me. xox bk Bring your open mind, questions, and filled-in Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet and join me live on Zoom every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, starting at 9 a.m....
Morning Gratitude: Life, Thought, Love Are Privileges
Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Peace Is Built Through Letting Go and Compassion
Peace isn't something you find. It's something you create. Every choice you make to let go, slow down, and be compassionate is what builds it.
We’re Enough: Unity, Love, and Purpose Beyond Destruction
What I’ve learned from the Artemis II mission and Integrity crew: You are already enough. Science and faith can co-exist. The Earth has everything we need. Humans are meant to create, not destroy. Sending love to the moon expands joy. We will...
Grief Shatters the Illusion of a Rewritable Past
Grief helps us relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.
Surrender to Reality; Control Is an Illusion
Two thoughts from Byron Katie “When I argue with reality, I lose, but only 100% of the time.” “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of...
Unlived Potential Breeds Cynicism and Criticism
This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard. “The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have...
Reignite Wonder: Healing Burnout and Existential Void
How to grow reenchanted with the world – a salve for the sense of existential meaninglessness and burnout https://t.co/MqPawlj256
Redefining Success: A Pandemic Talk Hits 3M Views
When my book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution came out, I was preparing for a 14-city tour and a TED talk. Then Covid happened. The tour was canceled. @TEDTalks moved online. And I ended up doing my talk straight to an...
Pollan Explores Psychedelic Consciousness in New Book
Michael Pollan on consciousness, psychedelics, and his new book A World Appears | The Standard https://t.co/sTGvuUhLBw
Human Consciousness Awakens as Part of the Cosmos
"We are not just observers of the universe; we are a part of it that has finally woken up."
Exploring Consciousness: Why We Exist and What Matters
It was a pleasure to speak at UC Irvine about “What matters to me and why”. I ask the questions: “What are we? Why are we?” I discuss scientific attempts to understand consciousness and its relationship to the physical world. https://t.co/Ye7DVq4U2q
Pause Regularly to Boost Success and Joy
"We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in...
Our Thoughts Shape Who We Become
" All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts" ~ Dhammapada #buddhism The Dhammapada teaches that thought molds our being. This reminds...
Fernando Pessoa Links Sleep to Life’s Existential Meaning
Sleep and the meaning of life – Fernando Pessoa on the existential dimension of the horizontal hours https://t.co/frZXCsLuPl
Aversion and Attachment: Buddha's Roots of Suffering
The #Buddha taught that two keys to suffering are aversion and attachment. We push away or hold on too tightly at times. There is wisdom to this teaching. #mindfulness https://t.co/ks1fv7CbI5
Accept Life’s Gifts and Losses, Say Yes
"People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life." Baldwin on love, the...
Margaret Fuller Reveals Path to Oneness with the All
Unselfing into oneness with "the All" – the forgotten visionary Margaret Fuller on transcendence https://t.co/ZPkjr4d4Wx
Music, Zen, and Cage: Blueprint for Good Living
“Good music can act as a guide to good living.” Gorgeous read on the inner life of the creative spirit lensed through Zen Buddhism and the life of John Cage https://t.co/GknNVx2rF8
Train Your Mind, Improve the World One Step
“The way to make the world better is to get your mind trained. There’s a Buddhist saying, ‘you couldn’t pave the entire world. But you could have better shoes.’” https://t.co/ifOnomC9BJ
We Settle for Small Pleasures, Ignoring Infinite Joy
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to...
Depression and Anxiety: Cultural Failures, Not Personal Faults
What if depression and anxiety aren't personal failures — but cultural ones? For the full 10percenthappier podcast episode with Prentis Hemphill — therapist, somatic facilitator, and national bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal — head to the link in...
Spiritual People Often Sabotage Change with Five Common Mistakes
Part 1: The 5 Biggest Mistakes that Spiritual People Make When It Comes to Change Drop a ❤️ if this resonates
Brain May Filter, Not Create, Consciousness, Says Bi
My guest @JohnathanBi suggests that scientific materialism isn’t wrong—it’s just incomplete. “Materialism assumes the brain creates the mind. But there are strong reasons to think the brain might be filtering consciousness instead.” ~Johnathan Bi
Challenge Biases, Embrace Analytical Perspective on Nature
It’s important not to let our biases stand in the way of our objectivity. To get good results, we need to be analytical rather than emotional. Whenever I observe something in nature that I (or mankind) think is wrong, I assume...
Discard the Surface Self with Underhill’s Timeless Guide
How to shed the surface self – the forgotten visionary Evelyn Underhill's century-old field guide to touching the depths of being https://t.co/C5ea57rwsN
Jung Labels Addiction as Spiritual Crisis: What It Means
In 1961, Carl Jung wrote a letter to the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He said addiction is a spiritual crisis. Everyone quotes it, but the question it raised is still unanswered: What does a spiritual crisis actually look like inside the psyche? 🧵
Meaning Is Assigned, So Letting Go Becomes Easier
Letting go gets easier when you realize the things you're holding onto only have meaning because you gave it to them.
Courage Guides Action; Agency Lacks Moral Direction
"'Courage' has a moral valence that agency doesn’t. Agency is about action, but it tells us nothing of direction. You can just do things, sure, but what will you do?" We've "collectively lost a sense of moral guidance" and don’t...
Astronauts Reveal Awe: Embrace Feeling Small
The Overview Effect: What We Can Learn From Astronauts About the Importance of Feeling Small, by @sambmd Good advice on getting more awe into your life: https://t.co/mAAM4VEEe4