Disappointment

Evan on December 18th, 2009

This is a link from Kaushik on his blog Beyond Karma. Kaushik writes with insight and simplicity. At risk of being too simplistic Kaushik writes from the perspective of ‘non-attachment and letting go is the path to happiness’. I have a few quibbles with this perspective – and I put some things differently than they [...]

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Evan on June 27th, 2008

Image by Amir Fathi Disappointment isn’t often viewed positively in the self-help or self-development world. This is hardly surprising – it’s quite an unpleasant experience (at least for me). An exception to this is Joanna Macy. Her take on disappointment is that disappointment is valuable because, “When you are disappointed you are not pretending” (my [...]

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