Sublime

At that event I hosted years ago, the room was filled with people who had a worthiness wound. But that room of people is every room of people. It’s your partner and it’s you. It’s your friends, your coworkers, your parents, and your boss. You don’t have to look far to find someone with a worthiness wound, someone who doesn’t feel good enough.

Jack Kornfield tells the story of a particular evening when Hob was giving a Buddhist dharma talk. One evening, however, he found himself standing before a meditation group having forgotten who he was and why he was there. So he simply began to mindfully acknowledge out loud his experiences: “blank mind … curiosity, nervousness, calming, blank mind

‘Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual solutions … A preoccupation with individual symptoms may lead to a “disembodied psychology” which separates what goes on inside people’s heads from social structure and context. The key t

there is one important move we can make that might take start to reduce some of the sting of inequality. For this, we need to begin by asking what might sound like an offensively obvious question: why is financial inequality a problem? There are two very different answers. One kind of harm is material: not being able to get a decent house, quality

Trying to be less guarded, more resilient, and authentic does not preclude also trying, simultaneously, to change the structures that systematically assault our self-worth.