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• Practicing happiness 07
• Practicing happiness 06
• Unresolvable problems: the paradox of disorganised attachment
• Feeling better: the smallest possible improvement
• Practicing happiness 05
• Practicing happiness 04
• Practicing happiness 03
• Are you searching for coherence?
• Practicing happiness 02
• Practicing happiness day 01
• What is self-esteem?
• Course correction: negative emotion
• Accept where you are
• What are feelings anyway?
• Meta-beliefs: is the game of life worth playing?
• Your interpersonal self
• Pleasing others, denying ourselves
• Facing tough contrast
• Close the gap…but not too much
• Writing your life: handling contrast
• Feeling good is enlightenment
• Life is meant to be fun
• The Matrix 20 years later: a personal reflection
• Pushing against boredom
• Do others need to change?
• Inspiration, expectation, validation
• It’s not about answers
• Born in the wrong era?
• Inspiration, emergencies and ease
• Letting go 10: Insecurity
• Letting go 09: when spiritual struggle is an obstacle
• Letting go 08: making the emotional connection
• Climate children: encouraging idealism without fear and anger
• Letting go 07: inspiration only?
• Letting go 06: open to inspiration
• Letting go 05: What is reality, really?
• Letting go 04: Metaphysics? It’s the vibe!
• Letting go 03: problem-minded
• Seeking solace and fulfilment
• Criminalising cowardice: the ethics of school shootings
• Letting go day 02: detachment
• Manifestations just aren’t that important
• Letting go of ‘impossible’
• Letting go day 01
• Way of the Screaming Baby
• Thoughts, Feelings, and Manifestations part 2
• Francis de Sales: progress in perfection
• Going up a level
• Thoughts, feelings, and manifestations
• The suburbs don’t depress me…
• One final answer
• MCU Temperament Battle: Tony Stark vs Thanos
• Remember to let go
• Temperament Project 05: Why Does Temperament Matter?
• Making “ordinary” beautiful
• Instantly change your reality
• Your reality maps your inner world
• Temperament Project 04: Excitability and Duration of Impression
• From anxiety to eagerness
• From relief to appreciation
• Temperament Project 03: Heat and Moisture
• Take it for granted?
• Rumi: Be lost in the call
• Life without anxiety
• Temperament Project 02: the Four Temperaments at a Glance
• What I always wanted
• Why does letting go feel so good?
• Temperament Project 01: Getting Started
• What is more real?
• Going beyond answers
• Learning to meditate
• Letting go: hyper vigilance
• Love is not earned
• What if home were magic?
• In the receptive mode
• Seeing the best in others
• Remembering ease
• Accepting love without earning it
• The excitement of contrast
• Other people’s bad moods
• Awakening to your higher self
• Learning to complain
• Laozi: the only motion is returning
• Waking up happy
• Han Shan: the road to Cold Mountain
• God in all things
• I remember
• Inspired or desperate?
• Kabir: seen without sight
• Believe without seeing
• Trust is enough
• Against convention: rethinking choice and desire
• Letting go: going downstream
• Laozi: subtracting day by day
• Trust: change of heart
• You don’t “have to”!
• Israel Folau: seeing the good
• Letting go: tension
• Love yourself
• Laozi: the usefulness of what is not
• Feel good all over
• Glasses, and a smile
• Feel good all day 15
• You don’t have to do it on your own
• Hafiz: School of Truth
• Feel good all day 14
• Hafiz: I have learned so much
• What is allowing?
• I only deserve good things
• Inner citadel of the Self
• Hafiz: I know the way you can get
• Feel good all day 13
• Kabir: He Himself
• Feel good all day 12
• Feel good all day 11
• Inspired Feeling for INFP-Melancholics
• “Shouldn’t you be doing something?”
• Kabir: The Thirsty Fish
• Feel good all day 10
• Can everyday life be joyful?
• Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?
• Feel good all day 9
• Feel good all day 8
• I don’t feel depressed anymore
• The power of inspiration
• Feel good all day 7
• Being whole in power: feeling good in Chinese philosophy
• Feel good all day 6
• Feel good all day 5
• Aren’t we all a bunch of snowflakes?
• Writing as spiritual discipline
• Feel good all day 4
• Easing difficult conversations
• I want vitality
• Feel good all day 3
• Breaking all the rules
• Does your happiness seem far away?
• Feel good all day 2
• Tempting fate
• Divided minds
• Trains of thought
• Feel good all day 1
• Missing my happiness
• Believe that you have received it
• Happiness Day 30
• Happiness Day 29
• Happiness Day 28
• What is the vortex?
• Writing for fun, profit…and a desperate need for approval?
• Happiness Day 27
• Count Your Blessings Day 10
• The Batman article we deserve
• Happiness Day 26
• International Batman Day!?
• Count Your Blessings Day 9
• Happiness Day 25
• Count Your Blessings Day 8
• That art thou
• Happiness Day 24
• Temperament and introversion vs feeling good
• Count Your Blessings Day 7
• Happiness Day 23
• Count Your Blessings Day 6
• Happiness Day 22
• Doing the dishes…happily?
• Count Your Blessings Day 5
• Happiness Day 21
• INFP-Melancholics and the Excitement Question
• Happiness Day 20
• Count Your Blessings Day 4
• Count Your Blessings Day 3
• The feeling of freedom
• Happiness Day 19
• Happiness Day 18
• Count Your Blessings Day 2
• Happiness Day 17
• Count Your Blessings Day 1
• The garden within you
• Happiness Day 16
• Happiness Day 15
• Happiness Day 14
• Happiness Day 13
• Redirect your attention
• Is happiness challenging?
• Happiness Challenge Day 11
• Happiness Challenge Day 10
• Happiness Challenge Day 9
• Learning to let go: lessons from a 1yo baby
• Happiness Challenge Day 8
• Happiness Challenge Day 7
• Happiness Challenge Day 6
• The Way of abundance
• When I found God
• Happiness Challenge Day 5
• Killing the Buddha
• Happiness Challenge Day 4
• Happiness Challenge Day 3
• Happiness Challenge Day 2
• The Happiness Challenge
• Will comparative religion save the world?
• Turning disappointment into eagerness
• Allow yourself to feel good
• Dissatisfaction is a sign
• How does “positive thinking” actually work?
• To feel as good as possible
• Be the person you want to be
• Raising happy children
• Love, and the kingdom of God
• Writing from my couch
• Empty your cup
• Repentance for the disenchanted
• Is there ‘more’ to life than enjoying it?
• The promise of feeling good
• The things I learned on my spiritual quest
• Temperament theory: does 5 = 4+1?
• Stop doing that thing you keep doing
• Keeping up with alignment
• The Emotional Guidance Scale
• Are you living your purpose?
• The Thinking trap for INFPs (Melancholic-Phlegmatic)
• Choosing how we feel
• Everything is perfect as it is
• Revisiting ‘Awareness’ by Anthony De Mello
• Life is here to be enjoyed
• Rethinking a spiritual quest
• Thus spake Jordan Peterson
• Truth or happiness?
• When can I start enjoying life?
• Drafting a book on the four temperaments
• Rethinking detachment
• Introverted Sanguines and Extroverted Phlegmatics: the confusing middle-ground
• On reading omens part 2
• On reading omens
• In search of authentic self-expression
• Attuning to God’s presence
• Faith and heresy for Thinkers and Feelers
• Weight loss and happiness
• Why explaining myself makes my ankle hurt
• From “never enough” to “always more”
• Getting into alignment
• Feeling like a different person
• Action and Distraction
• Can you be too positive?
• The path of happiness
• A Spiritual Reality
• Pride and humility for melancholics
• How the internet is driving the fractionalisation of society
• The Lamp of the Body is the Eye
• What do you really want?
• Going with the flow
• God in our innermost being: Mundaka Upanishad
• Distilling the search for God
• The more I think, the less I feel
• Bad Cholerics in the Catholic hierarchy
• Retrospective on a spiritual journey
• Is it time to consider the lily?
• Parenting advice from a low-energy father
• What is introverted Thinking (Ti)?
• Why people can’t describe introverted Feeling
• How does Fi work (in an INFP/Melancholic)?
• The benefits of getting sick
• The importance of looking within
• Positive thinking for INFP/Melancholics
• Fixing a melancholic
• Choleric Villains: a Kung Fu Panda case study
• Stages of positive thinking
• Mindfulness for people who hate mindfulness
• How positive thinking works
• A diet for the mind
• Ghost in the Shell: what is it really about?
• Why you should watch Cobra Kai instead of The Last Jedi
• Learning to feel better
• Seriously, anxiety?
• What is reality, really?
• Practicing (un)Happiness
• Ghost in the Shell: what makes sci-fi immersive?
• Is it okay to be happy?
• How to unlearn conditional happiness
• “If you want to make God laugh…”
• Fear of getting it wrong
• Abiding insecurity
• Imagine you’re relaxing
• How to “positive”
• God, happiness, participation and transcendence
• Bespoke Artisanal Handcrafted English
• Sackcloth and ashes on Valentine’s Day
• Your world is a reflection
• The practice of love
• Turning J and P on their heads
• True self vs Ego
• Sin and Feeling
• Law of attraction vs principle of reflection
• A process for personal change
• Cosmic Christmas Symbolism
• Myers-Briggs functions vs temperamental factors
• Can you trust your feelings?
• The service-provider state
• MBTI and psychogenic illness
• God writes straight with crooked lines
• Are more guns the answer?
• Why INFP = Melancholic-Phlegmatic
• introverted Feeling
• I just don’t feel like it
• Zuckerberg: the world’s biggest dictator
• To Hell with an Aussie Halloween
• OCEAN follow-up: disorganised and disagreeable
• OCEANs of meaning for the INFP/Melancholic-Phlegmatic
• Follow your feelings?
• Weinstein, ‘rape culture’, and one-punch assaults
• Happiness and the motivation to change
• Addiction and pornography: rediscovering virtue in the internet age
• A note on interpreting old temperament material
• Medieval Latin rhymes about temperament
• Kant on the melancholic
• A brief history of temperament
• Not-love: the paradox of evil
• Melancholics and inhibited body language/facial expressions
• How much should we hate our enemies?
• Do you make your own luck? The Landlord’s sin of pride.
• Towards a spiritual psychology
• Melancholics and trauma
• Reflecting on love and neglect
• Emotional regulation and chronic pain
• Love and doubt: the central truth of existence
• The Weight-Loss Paradox: paperback re-release
• Vale Dr John Sarno
• How I overcame ankylosing spondylitis
• Want answers? Learn to ask the right questions
• Perfect love and complete joy
• Seven Deadly Landlord Sins
• Fiction versus non-fiction: which is easier?
• Consolations of a reflective landlord
• People who can eat whatever they want…and not put on weight.
• Why is losing weight so difficult?
• The Weight-Loss Paradox – Paperback now available!
• Promoting The Weight-Loss Paradox
• My first non-fiction ebook!
• Tripping over joy
• The knight of faith against the absurd
• Nondualism and working on yourself
• My next book, smoked pork, fan-mail and all-consuming inner turmoil
• Why are melancholics tired all the time?
• Autoimmune and Myopia – parallels
• Looking for answers to refine your search
• The eyes have it
• Miracle cures and short-sightedness
• Your beliefs do shape your experience
• The zone of silence: rediscovering non-fiction
• Temperament Tests
• Melancholic learning styles
• Ups and downs and spiritual experience
• Getting to the bottom of pride in practice
• The antidote to Pride
• The writing process: attack from all sides!
• Fake news, junk knowledge, and learning to reason again
• The meaning of life in fiction
• Writing with the power of panic
• To Create a World: another great review!
• Fat, non-fiction and the philosophy of losing weight
• TCAW: Corporal punishment for Goblins
• My first-ever ebook review!
• Are fantasy stories worth telling?
• Overcoming Low Elf-esteem
• To Create a World – and an ebook!
• Enlightenment and Depression
• Searching for Four Temperaments info?
• Revisiting the ideal diet
• Do you create your own reality?
• Ebooks aren’t books, don’t have covers
• Everyday heroism and the value of fiction
• Symbolism of posture
• When suffering is good for you
• On being special
• On knowing what you’re doing
• On not knowing who you are
• Saving our best advice for others
• All thoughts come from the same place
• There is a crack in everything
• Blessed are those who mourn
• On being conceited, arrogant, proud and vain.
• Glory to God in the Lowest
• Who practices?
• Unpacking Pride
• Two Birds on a Tree: different models of selflessness
• When you grapple with a problem
• Sickness and pride
• Karma: when the past catches up with you
• The self that doesn’t exist
• What can you learn from the common cold?
• Who is in control?
• Untying knots
• Regime-change in the USA
• Analogies of Selflessness: Siri and Live Classical Music
• How we vote: the four temperaments
• Faith and works and self-delusion
• Are you perfect?
• Brief thoughts on Lucifer
• Better to reign in hell?
• What is your experience?
• Pride and the delusion of self
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy vs spiritual event-horizon
• What is understanding?
• Acceptance: nothing changes, everything changes
• On Trump’s video leak
• The great denial
• Acceptance: spiritual and mundane
• Taking what is offered.
• Dieting retrospective
• The missing voices of Western chant
• The use of being useless
• Buddhism and Christianity: a brief convergence
• Form and Formlessness
• The ‘it never happened’ button
• Finding your inner Trump
• Are hate crimes motivated by hate?
• Election ’16
• Racism and homophobia
• Not your grandfather’s transgenderism
• Who owns the horror?
• Gorillas in our midst
• T comes right after LGB
• Paypal gay picnic threat: a symbolic masterpiece in disguise
• La Mian / Ramen noodles
• How do we know what is good?
• Just one look
• Is morality rational?
• Dharma and Natural Law
• Rethinking the Is-Ought problem
• I identify as underappreciated
• The history of the center of the world
• Intuition: a logical interlude
• Who’s afraid of the MBTI?
• Temperaments and the MBTI
• What are you trying to prove?
• Good Friday notes 2016
• Exercise your demons
• It’s the pride, stupid.
• Melancholic resentment
• Show and Tell
• Remind me not to get sick in Australia
• Discerning The Donald
• Fiction update – so, so tired.
• Fiction update: my writing timeline
• Learning to forget
• Fiction update
• Do you like being overweight?
• 2015: a musical retrospective
• Feast of Thomas Aquinas
• Quell the appetite
• Endless striving
• More dieting tips
• Dieting Tips
• A fifth temperament?
• Melancholic with Type A Personality
• Have yourself an avaricious Christmas
• Philosopher rejects Orthodoxy, Christianity, all religion
• The paradox of “you create your own reality”
• Rice wine tips
• Are you really a cynic?
• Celebrating the Trolley Problem
• We are all rich men now
• I don’t like “God”
• If thine eye offend thee…
• Beautiful writing
• Blue cheese, rice wine, beer, pickled vegetables and glorious shelving!
• Nice, Western, Consensus Buddhism
• Cynical and amoral: the dark side of the mindfulness fad
• Heideggerian Anti-Mosque Protest
• The burden of free speech
• Dtcwee’s working holiday
• Pope in sheep’s clothing
• Anxiety and the Melancholic: part three
• C. S. Lewis’s “No Right to Happiness”
• J’Accuse! Dissecting an accusatory comment
• Limitations of a lustful life
• Anxiety and the Melancholic: part two
• Anxiety and the Melancholic: part one
• A painful attitude
• A PhD in Philosophy: more useful than expected!
• ‘Overcoming’ Auto-immune disease
• Will robots take your job?
• Reversion in Buddhism?
• Buddhism, emptiness and pride
• Metaphysics, creativity, and the tyranny of conventions
• The myth of total war
• MBTI and the melancholic
• How to remember Hiroshima
• The Moral Fallout of Hiroshima
• Quid est Veritas?
• You think too much
• Beatitudes
• So Dominican…
• Saturn devours his children
• Self-will gets in the Way
• Brooding on breeding
• Cognitive dissonance and same-sex marriage
• Contemptus Mundi
• Twitter devours its children
• Low mood
• The paradox of fiction
• Is Bruce Jenner now a woman?
• How not to heresy
• Life without indulgent eating
• Execution style
• Wine time
• Desire and the Dao
• The melancholic posture
• The ‘I’ in ‘team’
• Dtcwee’s hobby is a temple
• Language games
• Supermarket monsters
• The real price of cheap food
• Has “natural” been de-natured?
• What’s work for you?
• Another bacon update
• The Chinese version of me doesn’t do kung fu
• The limits of non-fiction
• The conflicted storyteller
• Resurrecting old religions
• Trauma and the ingratiate melancholic
• Easter vigil notes
• Good Friday notes
• Imagine you’re a phleg
• Fun with melancholics
• The obligated melancholic
• How much for your happiness?
• The safeguard of virtue
• My passive self
• How to win an internet argument
• The rectification of names
• When is a war crime not a war crime?
• On the virtues of cherry-picking
• The lost vision of our ethical heritage
• Yoga ethics or empty posturing
• Uncommon voices
• Why Catholics can’t sing
• The power of smoke
• Associate Editor looks askance at frozen berries
• I am a great person
• What ISIS really wants
• Making a difference in the age of high-speed politics
• Bacon comparison
• Monks with guitars
• My Funny Valentine
• The true men of old
• Eugenics and the artifice of man
• Islam, terrorism, and the Westboro Baptists
• Islam and violence: how stupid are we really?
• Terrifying moral dilemmas
• Let’s not call it bacon
• 60 sqm homestead
• Bacon day nine
• Home-made butter
• A murderous blame game
• The rise and fall of religious music
• If only my music were popular…
• Home-made bacon
• Home-made soy sauce
• “We cannot all be Charlie Hebdo”
• The pride of life
• Blaming Charlie Hebdo
• Challenging Radical Islam
• Provocation is no defence for the Jihadi murderers
• Blame and provocation
• Learn to crush your dreams
• The ideal approach
• Auto-Immunity: stop hitting thyself?
• Home-made pasta sauce
• I’m fine; like ‘fine art’ fine.
• New You Resolution
• Home-made bread
• A suitably obscure definition of mysticism
• The merits of mysticism
• Home-made update
• Man Ready To Hate Pope Again This Christmas
• Dangerous Aussie Fauna
• Who moved my brain?
• Fresh home-made yogurt
• Comparative mysticism at Christmas
• This debauched medium
• Decisions and choices
• The gift of satire
• Home-made rice wine
• Australia’s complex multi-culture
• The uselessness of a martial art
• Creative dismay
• Give me the spurious ephedrine
• Funnelly enough
• Adelaide’s Wakefield Experiment
• Childhood 2.0 is a little buggy
• Adelaide Feng Shui
• What makes you happy?
• What do you live for?
• Freedom from desire
• Serving two masters
• Adelaide and the uncanny valley
• Your money, or your life?
• Adelaide Contingent
• How do you make a living?
• The modesty of water
• What it means to be free
• DadFit
• The Dao of Parenting
• Ba-Ba-Ba
• A man of many parts-time
• The end of employment and a new path
• The melancholic exercise compromise
• Imago Dei and the basis of human dignity
• Tiny-house movement
• The moral betrayal of corporate dysfunction
• The pitfalls of careerism
• Stress and the melancholic temperament
• The nature of wealth
• Other people’s minds
• Home-brewed beer
• “I’m confused. Does he have three houses or one?”
• The awe-full truth of human dignity
• Canaries in the coal-mine
• Tonti-Filippini’s intellectual quest undaunted by physical pain
• 354
• The Kid Handicap
• Mammon triumphs over the everyman, flaunts codpiece
• I can’t handle being useful
• Is it really satire though?
• Anywhere but there
• Home-roasted coffee
• Learning Chinese the eccentric way
• “In springtime the dragon is useless”
• A richer life on a lower income
• The vibe of ‘white genocide’
• You can’t spell conspiracist without…
• I’m moving to Finland, to be with my people
• Not inspiring enough
• ‘White’ identity in a multicultural world
• Discovering the New Age author within
• Self-defense as an ethical ideal
• Why learn a martial art?
• Stoic Papa
• Evolution and the Catholic Church
• Violence and the masculine ideal
• Critiquing masculinity
• Stuck in my head
• “Follow your blisters”
• Indulging in satire
• An intellectual journey: dodging the culture wars, thinking for myself
• Reason and reality – a talk
• Inefficiencies of the labour market
• The Pope on evolution
• Weekly dose of satire
• Doing what teacher says
• The ethics of management: hypocrisy
• Happiness ensues…
• Overcoming the mental boundary
• Coherence of character
• The ethics of management: honesty
• More to life
• The ethics of management
• Finding a balance
• Routine destruction of off-spec food
• How Google Works
• China’s Virtuous President
• The greatest gift of all
• Arguing on the internet
• What is the sound of one hand clapping?
• What does it take to be a writer?
• Why I’m not on Facebook
• The critical challenge of gender equality
• The unfolding logic of euthanasia
• iWant! iWant! iWant!
• ‘Success’ brings out the worst in us
• The superior man needs an income
• The Melancholic Emperor
• Thinking beyond gender equality etiquette
• If you won the lottery tomorrow…
• The unexamined iphone is not worth buying
• Style over substance
• Rise of the management class
• Joan Rivers and the price of victory
• What makes an endeavour shallow?
• The Disadvantages of Depth
• Sexpo and University Open Days
• A Scrupulous Writer
• Stifling Creativity
• Sickness and Eternity
• Lost in the Process
• Melancholic Facades and the Challenge of Sincerity
• Stoicism and the Dao
• The Natural Appeal of Stoicism
• Vale, Robin Williams, Hollywood’s melancholy funnyman
• Communicating Value
• There’s No Money in That
• Pigs and Fishes – Dealing with Intractable People
• The Power of Sincerity
• Pitfalls of the Melancholic

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