by Evan Dwan | Sep 23, 2017 | News |
We have within us the power to cultivate positive emotions and experiences in our everyday lives. We have the power to develop joy in ourselves in simple yet profound ways. So often we look to the big events in our lives to make us happy: marriage; career; family;...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 15, 2017 | News |
“No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main”. – John Donne “The deepest need of man”, wrote the philosopher and psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, “is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 5, 2017 | News |
When afflictive thoughts and emotions strike, we need strategies. We need a psychological toolbox to defend ourselves. Buddhist meditative practices offer a profound resource for arming us with effective tools to deal with disturbances of the mind. Mattieu Ricard, a...
