Odin's Ravens

“(A) good day is not necessarily compatible with a happy life,” wrote Jennifer Michael Hecht in her book The Happiness Myth: Why What We Thi...

You know what’s truly stomach-turning? To watch people contorting themselves like strippers on a greasy pole to make lame excuses for poli...

“People tend to regard certain things in life as necessary for happiness, when if fact they aren’t. The term ‘focusing illusion’ comes from ...

Dick Van Dyke in 2010, rehearsing for a one-man show. “Here is the truth: your teens and twenties are your plan A. At fifty, you’re assessin...

“Once you achieve a state of blissful concentration, an audience is not necessary. You enjoy the here and now, and simply go on. “In life, w...

  People did not wander around the streets with guns when I was growing up in the Midwest, nor did they feel deprived of any rights. This gu...

“Buddhist thought and modern psychology converge on this point: in human life as it is ordinarily lived, there is no one self, no conscious...