Psychology 02 (Feb 14 - Dec 25)

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Healing Grief

Grief is a catalyst for healing.

Healing grief carves the landscape of your heart. in ways that open up deeper pathways of connection to others.

- Paula Arai, “Where Fear and Love Meet”

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Reconciliation Is a First Step

Reconciliation is not an end point of practice.

It is a beginning place for continuing to free your heart.

- Phillip Moffitt, “May All Things be Reconciled”

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Regret and Compassion

Regret is for your own sake, compassion is for the sake of others.

- Robina Courtin, “Purification Is a Psychological Process”

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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed."

- Carl Jung

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Analyze Your Practice

We need to be aware of what we are practicing in any moment.

Because whatever we practice, we get better at, whether it’s the skillful or the unskillful.

- Christina Feldman, “Hurrying Is a State of Mind”

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Truth Shines Through

Practice challenges our conditioned beliefs.

And in this challenge, what isn’t true dissolves.

- Caverly Morgan, “Overcoming Negative Self-Talk”

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Patience is Multifaceted


You can think of patience and its steadying power as a gem with many, many facets — patience as forbearance, patience as gentle perseverance and patience as acceptance of the truth. 

Dawn Scott, “Patience is a Journey”

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Recognize Suffering
To recognize suffering is the beginning of healing. 

- Dr. Bokin Kim, “Sweets and Suffering”

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Compassion Combats Fear

Fear thrives in the absence of mutual understanding and diversity and it is a poisonous weapon.

But there is an antidote: compassion. Compassion combats fear.

- Gyalwang Drukpa, “How to Combat Fear”

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Meditate Your Ideologies Away

Meditation practice is a way of loosening our solidity.

Without practice, even the most inspired view can become rigid ideology.

The practice of meditation brings out the futility and limitations of holding any rigid view.

- Judy Lief, “Meditation Alone is Not Enough”