All posts tagged "death"
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Michael Schreiner | May 7, 2014
Emotional Vaccine
This morning I was thinking about the book Bridges to Terabithia, which was required reading in middle school...
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Michael Schreiner | May 2, 2014
Gone Astray
When teenagers or young adults have lost their way you will hear some parents say something along the...
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Michael Schreiner | March 28, 2014
Destruction Of Your Being
I recently had a conversation about existential anxiety with a smart guy who made a comment that will...
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Michael Schreiner | November 19, 2013
Choices
Humans don’t like feeling cornered. We like to know we have options, that our free will is intact,...
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Michael Schreiner | October 25, 2013
Loneliness
Loneliness is one of the most painful emotional states. We are social creatures yet we are aware, at...
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Michael Schreiner | October 24, 2013
Hope
“There is no sense in hoping for that which already exists or for that which cannot be. Those...
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Michael Schreiner | October 9, 2013
Five Remembrances
The Buddha’s five remembrances, as translated here by Thich Nhat Hanh, can seem grim. The obvious question is,...
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Michael Schreiner | September 24, 2013
Reasonable Anxiety
In an existential context no anxiety at all or very high levels of it are bad while reasonable,...
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Michael Schreiner | August 8, 2013
Risk Taking
It can be hard to understand why some people are so cavalier with their lives, taking unnecessary risks,...
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Michael Schreiner | April 10, 2013
Universe
The most arbitrary division is the idea that you exist in the universe. Actually you are the universe....