Eric's Letters

Following Jizo's example can lead to better outcomes by maximizing compassion and spiritual optimism.

We should strive to cultivate our ability to sustain attention and stay focused on single tasks.

Consciously pausing refreshes and wakes us up, reminding us to enjoy our limited time.

Take the time to appreciate the beauty around you and declare victory no matter what happens.

Beginning again is a powerful and elusive piece of advice that involves consciously deciding to drop the past and enter the present moment.

Waking ourselves from the multitasking trance is the best way to focus on what truly matters.

Joseph Goldstein advises to act on generous impulses immediately instead of putting them off. This reduces suffering and brings joy.

Thoughts can be like uninvited guests, but we don't have to entertain them or offer them tea. We can learn to step off the thought...

The experience of being in conscious contact with reality as it actually is can be a key to the freedom you seek.

It helps to pay attention to what we're hearing because it seems like our ears need some TLC.

We can simply accept what is, and we can change what is. Simultaneously.

Maybe what we're really after is the art of discovering that we can be fulfilled before the next thing happens, not because it happened.

Somehow this liminal space lends itself to pausing, and the pause is the notice.

Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away.

It's 2021, and the global collective sigh of relief is palpable.

I'm noticing the many small, but great, things around me that bring me joy.

In the end, what do we all want?

Doing what's meaningful to you really comes down to stealing hours from more comfortable pursuits and habits.

Some things are up to us and other things are not.

Link a desired behavior with something you regularly do.

Your habits of today are a kind of vote for your future self. Adopting ultrahealthy eating habits today, for example, is a very good idea....

Using the power of your own awareness to practice conscious, slow breathing through the nose is the ultimate mindfulness practice.

Every one of us knows, somewhere deep down, what it's like to be truly happy, if only for brief moments.

Add value to your future self every day, in five-minute chunks.