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An Ancient Commandment for Flourishing
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a...
Apr 47 min read
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Hear! Hear! A Compassion Pep Talk
R eceiving kindness, gentleness, warmth and compassion tells the brain that the world is safe and other people are helpful rather than...
Mar 198 min read
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A "What If Scenario" and My Plan for America's Happiness, Health, and Well-Being
Yes, I saw and read some of the political news yesterday. I am politically independent - still I have plenty of thoughts about what path...
Mar 58 min read
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It's Never Too Late: Simple Ways for Making Meaning, Healing, and Changing the World
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, "I wish I'd made more money." What they say is, I wish I'd spent more time...
Feb 287 min read
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What Drives Us? A Humorous (yet hopefully) Insightful Debate on Human Motivation
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. Rollo May Last night John and I caught up on the news...
Feb 247 min read
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Ailing? Write Yourself A Social Prescription
Instead of asking "what's the matter with you?" ask patients "what matters to you?" Dr. Sam Everington, Founding Social Prescribing...
Jan 217 min read
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How the Theory of Buckets and Dippers (and Lids) Works: 3 Rules for Happiness and a Test of Donald O. Clifton's Ideas
Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships. Dr....
Oct 19, 20247 min read
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Healthy Religion: Experiencing the God that Everyone Knows
If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion . Various attributions Religion and spirituality can impact...
Oct 5, 20245 min read
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Quick Now: What Are Your Pillars For Living the Good Life?
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. Leo Tolstoy This past week I...
Aug 18, 20247 min read
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Relationships Win, The Golden Rule Still Rules, and Trusting In Our Goodness
These are not new values or ideals. As long as there has been strife and hunger and exploitation and cruelty, there have been...
Jul 26, 20247 min read
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Good Ways to Celebrate Our Independence
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the...
Jul 3, 20244 min read
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Impossibilities
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and...
Mar 25, 20247 min read
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Self-Care: Advice, Reflection, and Choices
Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by choices....
Jan 5, 20245 min read
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A Good Resolution for Us All?
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...
Jan 1, 20243 min read
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Are We Naturally Good or Bad?
"I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's...
Nov 28, 20235 min read
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THIS Makes You Young
“Everyone Desires Long Life, Not One Old Age” Jonathan Swift, early English satirist My older son, Hoby, is a human performance expert...
May 22, 20236 min read
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Dying Well
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus I know it's coming up - Mother's Day, but my mother is dead. Now I am...
Mar 31, 20224 min read
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How To Stop Being Quite So Foolish On All The Other Days
“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect....
Mar 29, 20224 min read
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What's Your Vision of The Good Life?
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung...
Mar 29, 20225 min read
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Life, Truth, Fairness - It's Tricky
“In this treacherous world/Nothing is the truth nor a lie./Everything depends on the color/Of the crystal through which one sees it.” ―...
Mar 29, 20224 min read
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