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Mark Epstein tells the story of Thai monk Achaan Chaa who held up his drinking glass and said ‘the glass is already broken’.5 He imagined the day when it would be knocked over and shatter, which made every moment he had with it precious.

Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

by Meg Barker · published 2012 · read 2019-10-05

★★★★☆

Many if not most books on relationships out there are not good. Sometimes the author had a spot of luck and generalises. Sometimes it's just stuffed with common knowledge, or advice meant to make people feel in control. Of course, most of them are also horribly gendered, and subscribe to differences between men and women at ridiculous levels, and/or assume relationships to be heterosexual.