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Expand Your Ability to Choose

Most of the time, we limit ourselves to two options and call it a decision. In reality, the quality of a decision depends almost entirely... (9/17/2018)

— Thiện Minh

The Root of Suffering Is Regret

Notice what happens after each action you take. Is there regret? If so, suffering follows — and continues as long as regret persists.The same is... (9/16/2018)

— Thiện Minh

What We Must Do vs. What We Should Do

Everyone has their own reasoning for why they do what they do.One of the most common mistakes: judging other people's motives based on surface behavior,... (9/13/2018)

— Thiện Minh

How to Stop Being Hurt by Ingratitude

Ingratitude is a natural human trait — not a moral failing unique to certain people, but a common condition that follows from insufficient modeling and... (9/2/2018)

— Thiện Minh

Why We Keep Holding On

Wind passes through without holding anything. It doesn't carry yesterday's weather into tomorrow.People are less graceful. We remember what hurt us, rehearse what we lost,... (8/4/2018)

— Võ Thường

Meditating with Quartz — The Importance of Proper Breathing

Breathing is the bridge between body and mind. When the breath is controlled, the mental state follows. When thoughts spiral, the breath breaks apart.A practice... (7/23/2018)

Master the breath. The rest follows.

How Quartz Crystal Transfers Energy

Natural quartz forms over millions of years under intense geological pressure — accumulating energy through its formation process in ways we don't fully understand.Proponents suggest... (7/20/2018)

Whether or not the mechanism is exactly as described, many people who work with quartz report genuine improvements in mental clarity and focus. Personal experience remains the most honest form of evidence.

The Sincere Storyteller

The best sales skill, when selling books, is not persuasion. It is genuine storytelling.For books you've finished: summarize the core insight in a way that... (7/19/2018)

Becoming a sincere storyteller matters more than mastering technical sales tactics. People don't buy products — they buy the feeling that someone genuine is pointing them toward something real.

A Greater Force

Every creature exists within a food chain. Humans have climbed to the top — but the history of the planet suggests that no species holds... (6/10/2018)

— Thiện Minh

Passion and Purpose

Your passion and life purpose don't usually arrive in a single dramatic moment. They emerge slowly — as your understanding of the world deepens, as... (6/7/2018)

— Thiện Minh

On Giving and Receiving Advice

Trees by a river don't ask the sun when to bloom, or the rain when to stop, or the wind which direction to lean. They... (6/7/2018)

Most of the time, it's the second one.

The Dream of Peace

Everyone longs for peaceful mornings — dew on the grass, a quiet heart, the day not yet weighted by demands.But life presses in. Competition. Urgency.... (6/5/2018)

— Vô Thường

What Healing Actually Means

Sometimes healing is not about removing symptoms and returning to normal. Sometimes it requires destruction: letting a dream die, watching a plan collapse, allowing a... (6/5/2018)

— Jeff Foster

The Secret to Inner Peace and Equanimity

Most anxiety has a simple cause: we are spending our energy on the wrong category of problems.There are three kinds of matters in life: your... (6/3/2018)

Not as a reward. As a natural consequence.

The Commitment That Goes Deeper Than Promises

Love that rests on promises about the future is built on sand. Feelings change. Thoughts shift. The "wild ocean of love" — as the poet... (6/2/2018)

When truth and love meet in commitment, two people can walk both together and separately — and find that neither diminishes the other.

Only One Path

I have deep respect for people of all faiths and spiritual traditions. Many paths lead toward truth, and humility requires acknowledging that none of us... (6/1/2018)

That distinction matters to me.

Rose-Colored Years

At 16, the world felt soft at the edges. My mother took care of everything, and the days moved slowly enough to notice.I remember a... (4/16/2018)

— Thiện Minh

What It Means to Be Truly Mature

In A Wrinkle in Time, a character who has lived thousands of years is asked why they no longer concern themselves with appearances.Their answer, in... (4/4/2018)

— Thiện Minh

Quitting Work to ‘Cultivate’ — A Big Mistake

There's a trend of people abandoning careers and livelihoods to pursue spiritual practice — believing that meditation alone will sustain their lives and that this... (3/30/2018)

Self-development should never become a burden someone else is asked to carry.

Always Watch Body and Mind

On the way home, the road was blocked — a landslide across the path. I turned back.In that moment I thought about luck, about practice,... (2/20/2018)

— Thiện Minh