amanda quraishi

amanda quraishi

You can call me Q.

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  • Get Happy

    Get Happy

    The sunken cost fallacy doesn’t just apply to material or financial decisions. It applies to relationships, communities, jobs, ideologies, whatever. If you’re really struggling and haven’t been happy for a long time; and you’ve tried all kinds of things to make it work, but you’re not getting anywhere — it may be time to move […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well
  • My Purpose

    My Purpose

    This week I had the most authentically spiritual community experience I’ve ever had… and on Zoom no less. I’m going to try to explain it here, but I feel compelled to mention that words are clumsy, silly things that can’t even begin to express experiences such as these. — — — On Wednesday nights I attend a […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well, Zen
  • May This Body Be At Ease

    May This Body Be At Ease

    Last night in my little virtual Zen community, we did something called Metta practice. ‘Metta’ is a Pali word that means something like ‘Loving Kindness’ and our meditation is comprised of four phrases: 1. May this body be at ease 2. May this heart be open 3. May this mind be boundless 4. May you […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Zen
  • A Tolerance for Life

    A Tolerance for Life

    Not tolerance for other people (that’s a different blog post all together), but tolerance for our own discomfort. For being stuck, waiting for news, feeling uninspired. It’s about those periods in our lives when we don’t know what to do, and we feel like we might go mad because there’s nothing productive we can do […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well
  • Not About You

    Not About You

    Periodically I take long breaks from drinking from the fire hose of social media, and it’s during these times that I realize with great poignancy how little value there is to be found in the constant drumbeat of self-analysis (personal and communal) that has come to dominate public online discourse. As an enthusiastic consumer of […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Creativity
  • On the Creative Process

    On the Creative Process

    Popular opinion is oppressive. That is why the best thinking, art, music, writing and self-expression always happens on the margins of society and/or within spaces away from which ‘just anyone’ is allowed to participate. Some mistake this for elitism. It certainly can be if it’s being done by people who sincerely believe they are inherently […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Creativity
  • You’re Perfect

    You’re Perfect

    The thing about humans is that we’re never satisfied. Oh, we might take a couple minutes after we finish a marathon or get a new job to celebrate and feel good about ourselves — but then, we’re on to the next thing. And the next. There’s always something else we want. Something else that we […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well, Society
  • Seriously

    Seriously

    When I was a little girl, I’d look at the faces of older people and wonder why they grew so serious during long moments of quiet reflection. Why the corners of their mouths turned down, and their brows wrinkled, and their eyes drooped. Some very old people looked downright angry, though I came to understand […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Aging, Memories
  • They Tyranny of Positivity

    They Tyranny of Positivity

    While I do think it’s important not to give in to despair, my experience tells me that when it comes to the hard stuff in life — difficult relationships, mental health struggles, money problems, addiction, questions of faith, and political action — the only way out is THROUGH. This means accepting and acknowledging that we’re […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Living Well
  • Bear Witness

    Bear Witness

    One of the most valuable things we can do for someone else is simply listen and acknowledge their pain. If you are an empathetic person, it’s often harder to do this than to go through trials and tribulations of your own. But failing to do so robs other people of something they need — something everyone desperately […]

    amandatheq

    July 4, 2022
    Society
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