This past weekend, we went along to a Buddhist temple out of curiosity. The thing that stayed with me the most, despite it already being something I believe was when the monk giving the teaching said: “Everyone wants to be happy, and the meaning of happiness is a peaceful mind. If your mind is peaceful, you are happy.” He went on to say…”be curious and notice when your mind isn’t peaceful, and what disturbs it”. It’s something I kept coming back to all day. Happiness is one of those words...

Our lives have quietly become a collection of unhelpful behaviours. Not because we’re broken or lazy, but because we’re trying to avoid feeling uncomfortable emotions. The achiever part, the people pleaser, the perfectionist, the one that won’t let you rest… behind all of these positive-intentioned parts is an uncomfortable feeling we don’t want to face. If we rest, we might feel guilt or shame for being lazy - so we keep pushing, and end up burnt out and exhausted. If we keep achieving, we...

In a recent reel that I saw of two guys chatting, I heard something that made me pause: “I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen?” One of them then referred to a quote by Abraham Lincoln, “I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.” Imagine a world where we lived by that. Where we sought to understand before we judged, looked for connection rather than difference, and led with curiosity before opinion. These words bring up a lot of emotion for me,...