negativity bias
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Transcendentalism, Part 1: Introduction

It was the Persian mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī who said, in the 13th century, “The task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” These words are at once hopeful and sobering. Love is a human potential.…
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Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? The short answer is: it depends on which voice we’re listening to. Are we listening to the BIG VOICE of materialism which resounds in the echo chamber of our consumeristic American…
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How to Be More Non-Judgmental

Today we are exploring judgmentalism and what can be done about it. Judgmentalism, as in: This must be distinguished from discernment, which enables us to be fair and reasonable in distinguishing between what is genuinely medicine and what is genuinely poison, what is truly helpful and what is truly harmful, who is honestly a friend…