Tag Archives: happiness

Digging Out of the Hole

Posted on February 24, 2023 by jejunejesuit

You don’t like your fucking job. Day in and day out you make sacrifices, filling up your weeks with other people’s problems just so you can siphon off a little stream of revenue from the big river of cash in … Continue reading →

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Isolation, Artifacts

Posted on April 6, 2020 by jejunejesuit

Sometimes it takes the whole world stopping to rediscover what you love. When things come to a grinding halt maybe you first glut yourself on the vices you’d used to distract yourself from misery. Maybe the very things you’d framed … Continue reading →

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The Body as Metaphor; Untying Knots

Posted on December 13, 2012 by jejunejesuit

More Thich Nhat Hanh: There is a term in Buddhist psychology that can be translated as “internal formations,” “fetters,” or “knots.” When we have a sensory input, depending on how we receive it, a knot may be tied in us. … Continue reading →

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Loving Your Life and Cherishing Others

Posted on September 13, 2011 by jejunejesuit

About a week ago, I got an email from my uncle. I read it in the morning, and I cried. I read it again that night, and I cried again. Two hours later, I set up this website. To know … Continue reading →

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