Connection Series 41 articles
Connecting with yourself, others, society, history, the world, and nature
Making Peace with Yourself, Dessert Shops, and Creator Videos: Only Scroll Through Short Videos When Your Energy and Vibration Are HighChinese Internet Users and the Chinese People Are Different Groups and ClassesHow We Change Others: Through Resonance Between Our True Natures, Rather Than Giving or CoercionWhat Makes Communication Energizing and High-Quality?Why Striving Goes Wrong and Forcing Falls Short: A Perspective Based on ConnectionRest Takes Great Wisdom, Courage, and SteadinessOnly Engage with First-Rate People and Those Beyond the First RateHow College and Secondary School Students Can Respond to MeritocracyA Common Form of Feeling Lost in College: An Existential CrisisHow to Overcome LonelinessHow to Build a Connection with YourselfAfter Nora Leaves, Part 3: Van Gogh SyndromeBe Grateful to Your Past Self and Your Present SelfWe Have Always Been Fighting Alongside Our Past SelvesAs Members of the Petty and Micro Bourgeoisie, How Can We Build a Connection with the Proletariat's Simple Truth, Goodness, and Beauty?I Look Up at the Sky: My Future Self Is Gazing Gently at My Present SelfPinduoduo Comment-Section Literature and the Healing Power of Food MarketsWhy Hangzhou's West Lake and Beijing's Olympic Forest Park Heal Me Less Than a Small County Town ParkHome Is Where My Heart Finds Peace: If I Only Find Myself When I Leave Home for the Park, Is the Park My Real Home?Seeing Light Through Days of Grimy Drudgery: Living in the Present, Where the Present Is Already the Other ShoreSimplicity, Kindness, and Sincerity Shine Like Gems in Everyday LifeLetting Go of the Obsession with TravelSocial Relationships: The Differences Between Comrades, Kindred Spirits, Dearest Friends, and FriendsChoosing Your Social RelationshipsChoosing Your Social Relationships, Part 2: Friendship in the PresentSocial Relationships: First-Rate People and Better Focus You Toward the Dao; Second-Rate and Lesser People Scatter You Away from ItWords Cannot Change People; They Only Filter ThemWhen Talking with Others, Connection and Listening MatterReflections on Exercise: How Much You Want to Exercise, Rather Than How Much You MustThe People Who Told Me I Had Problems Through Years of "Harsh but Honest Advice" Gave Me Those ProblemsValuing Someone vs. Respecting Them: An Easy Confusion in RelationshipsConnection vs. Entanglement: Our Relationship with the WorldWhy Is It Hard to Find Connection with Nature and Feel Its Presence?Connection with FateHow Connection Breaks: From Children with Innate Wholeness to Lonely, Lost AdultsConnection with Bright Spring Sunshine and Surging Spring BreezesConnection Is at the Heart of Zhuangzi's Healing: We Have Always Been Seeking ConnectionWhy Is It Hard to Find Connection with a Sunset and Appreciate It?Connection with a Beautiful FutureKeeping a Diary Is Our True Path to Communion with Spirits, the Divine, and the BuddhaLife Is Like Lava: Light and Flames Flicker Within