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Am I responsible? Part III
"I never know whether to feel guilty or empathetic – it's like my chest is hosting a masquerade ball, and I can't tell who's who!"
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Finishing a New Year's task
“Why finish a task today when you can let it haunt you tomorrow?”
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Lessons of Bhudda?
“What is the role of Buddhism in modern life?
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Three big questions
"Big questions are like a GPS for your brain.
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How do I want to be remembered?
“I came, I saw, I made it awkward.”
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Am I responsible? Part II
“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”
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Am I responsible?
“You are not responsible for the emotions of others.
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Therapy Burnout
“For how many people who are out there knocking themselves out to get good abs, I wish people would put that same effort into developing…
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Disrupting patterns of disappointment
“The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.”
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Navigating the Friendship Recession
“Friendship isn’t a big thing.
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Writing My Own Story
“Ideas shape the course of history”
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Dementia is Hard
“To love someone with dementia is to attend a thousand funerals of the person they used to be.”
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