#presence

To achieve presence, you must have faith that full immersion in the current action will naturally shape what comes next.

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This morning's rain made me realize that some seemingly superficial stress can run much deeper than expected.

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Books, recordings and apps that have been most important in my meditation practice and my understanding of Eastern philosophy.

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Since the future is impossible to predict, every action should be guided by instinct and excitement rather than intellectual planning.

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The illusion that prevents presence: the idea that the current moment doesn't really count and is merely a passage toward a destination.

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The ego isn't a flaw to be rid of, but a relationship between two ideas that we choose to create ourselves.

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We think we act for others, to be kind, to help. But secretly, we're working for ourselves and our own satisfaction.

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The most important thing I've learned in recent years: to stand out, you need to build a system. Here's how.

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You can optimize the wrong things. You can accelerate in the wrong direction. You can be overwhelmed by work that leads nowhere.

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When you look at how the physical and mental work together, you realize the body is kind of like the mind's notebook.

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The strongest emotions arise when we feel ignored. So much so that much of what we do seems designed to prove we exist.

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People joke they would do nothing if they could. Most would be unable to face the anxiety created by this void.

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Problems are a function of who we are. By changing inner dispositions, we transform our relationship to external circumstances.

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In 2022, I filmed a 10-minute improvisation video every day and posted it on YouTube. In 2025, I’m starting again!

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If Sting repeats it three times in his song, it must be important.

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There's something for scientists as well as beatniks. The common theme: reality isn't what you think. Let's dive in.

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Keeping a journal boils down to one activity for me: describing the obstacle. Not solving it. Just bringing it to light.

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For English speakers, three articles I've read over several years about death described by healthcare professionals. I've already discussed the first two, but upon reading the third, I thought it was worth compiling a little anthology.

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I don't choose what I write.One morning, I realize that my comedy-drama screenplay isn't progressing. The new scenes are dragging, predictable. Even the corrections I make here and there don't seem to be heading in the right direction. It's a mess.

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A touch of the blues on the highway. No reason. Then I understood: nothing exciting was waiting for me. What if that was actually fine?

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I'm coming to think that only presence matters. Not right or wrong actions, but good or bad reasons to act.

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First, let me be clear: I'm not religious in the slightest.Even though I was baptized, received communion, and went through all that, I dropped it all around the age of twelve, and the years have only solidified my rejection of organized religion.

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Two pillars of Buddhism recently explored through the wonderful book "Seeing that Frees" by the late Rob Burbea, listening to the lectures of James Low that I discovered recently, and tirelessly through the recordings of Alan Watts, who never ceases to...

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We often forget the people who make our lives easier.We dwell too long on those who cause us problems.

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Reactivity is a prized skill in business. But outside of emergencies, reacting fast often means acting before thinking. What if we just... stopped?

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Don't think of elephants! Too late. The more we fight a thought, the stronger it gets. What if the real solution was to stop fighting?

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For 48 hours, whenever I felt like doing something unnecessary, I didn't. A Stoic experiment in observing how the brain reacts under pressure.

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I type faster when I focus on accuracy instead of speed. How many areas of life suffer because we try to go too fast?

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Change the world, maybe not. But you'll stop bugging me. 1. No more "bon appétit" at every turn At the table, with your family, with your friends: have a blast.

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We internalize certain external gazes and spend our lives reacting for someone who isn't there. Recognizing this is the first step to freedom.

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Yes, it's a cliché, but I've recently experienced it in a very personal way.

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I stopped watching the first episode of Wednesday half way through. (I tried to go to the end, I promise, I even stopped then resumed it). But I want to take this opportunity to tell you what I really liked about Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family.

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Our habits are a boon and a curse. A boon because we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. We can rely on the routine we've built for ourselves: the same actions, performed in the same order, produce the same results.

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Not so much resolutions as general principles that I've discovered and explored in the past years:

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In meditation, progress means recognizing more and more of our inner contents as thoughts. Even the ones so familiar we mistook them for reality.

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