Happiness

Life is full of surprises, and you’re one of them

Life is full of surprises, and you are one of them. I’ll begin by offering two reasons YOU are so surprising. The first deals with your relationship with the universe. Although the size of the universe can be measured, its vastness is unfathomable. Nevertheless, I’ll try to paint a picture of its size. Imagine gathering

Success

How can we design life for ourselves?

Life is not something to be lived through; it is something to be lived up to (William G. Jordan) A reader asks, “1. What is the exact purpose of life? I know you have written a couple of articles, but I fail to understand why we have been sent. We come and live our life.

Self Improvement

A possibility was born the day you were born

Lisa, a 36-year-old woman asks, “How do you find a direction in life? I’ve had several jobs and excelled at all. But after the death of my spouse, my life came to a standstill. I want to start the ball rolling again. At the risk of sounding repetitious, how do I find a direction in

Self Improvement

Liberty, license, and liberation

A reader has a question about last week’s article, which was entitled, “It’s all UP to you” His question and my answer follow, but before I begin, let me invite YOU, too, to pose questions or suggest topics you would like me to cover. Now, on to his question: “I’d like to ask you about

Self Improvement

The less you carry, the farther you go. So let go!

The head of the monastery and his disciple had finished looking after the sick, so they left the village and headed home. After a 45 minute trek in the woods, they came to the most difficult part of their journey, a wide, raging stream that had to be crossed. But today was different, for standing

Self Improvement

Letting go of spite, in spite of ourselves

Were you ever driving along on the highway when someone behind you flashed their high beams because they wanted you to speed up? Such rude and unwarranted behavior can be upsetting. Did you deliberately slow down instead, just to annoy the car behind you? If you did, the other driver just got angrier and probably

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