By Edward Hoffman — 2020
More than a century ago, William James explained how to combat passivity.
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I’m the first to admit that for many years, I was a bit emotionally needy. Not in a crazy, desperate way, but in the way that many of us are. I wanted someone else to make me happy, blamed others for my unhappiness, sought to fulfill my emotional needs through others.
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No one has made more beautiful nor more convincing a case for trusting our inner voice than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.
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You may know certain people who seem to magically be able to manifest almost anything they want in life.
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Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.