The catalogue
Concepts
Every passage is filed under one or more concepts. Two are joined when they appear on the same passage.
All concepts
- Acceptance22 passagesLetting a fact be a fact. Not approval, not giving up — just stopping the argument with what has already happened.
- Judgement21 passagesThe opinion you form about an event, as distinct from the event. Often the part that does the damage.
- Patience19 passagesStaying with something slow without abandoning it or forcing it.
- Presence19 passagesBeing accompanied in a hard time — by a person, or by something a tradition names differently.
- Attention17 passagesWhat you point your mind at, how little of that is deliberate, and what changes when it is.
- Control16 passagesSorting what is actually up to you from what is not, and spending your effort accordingly.
- Rest16 passagesStopping. Not as a reward for finishing, which never comes, but as a thing a person is allowed to do while the work is still there.
- Time16 passagesThat things take as long as they take, and that most of the hurry is yours rather than the situation's.
- Future11 passagesWhat is coming, how little of it you control, and how to live in the meantime.
- Impermanence11 passagesThat nothing stays, including the good parts and including this part.
- Love11 passagesCaring about someone's wellbeing, including when it is inconvenient and including when they have not earned it.
- Grief10 passagesLosing someone or something, and the long work of living after it.
- Suffering10 passagesHurting, and not being able to make it stop.
- Compassion9 passagesRecognising someone else's pain as the same kind of thing as your own, and acting like it.
- Enemies8 passagesThe people who have hurt you, or who want something that costs you something, and what you do about them.
- Forgiveness8 passagesDeciding to stop holding something against someone. Not the same as deciding it was fine.
- Resentment8 passagesA grievance you keep alive. Usually justified, usually expensive, and paid for almost entirely by you.
- Trust8 passagesRelying on something you cannot verify — a person, a process, or the world generally — and how anyone manages it.
- Anxiety6 passagesFear about something that has not happened, running on a loop that planning does not switch off.
- Doubt4 passagesNot knowing what is true, and having to live somewhere in the meantime.
- Hope3 passagesExpecting that things can be better, while knowing they might not be.
- Reactivity3 passagesThe gap between something happening and you responding, and whether there is any gap at all.
- Conflict1 passageBeing at odds with someone, and what the disagreement is actually about underneath.
- Provision1 passageHaving what you need, worrying about whether you will, and where that worry actually comes from.