IDEAS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Upgrade Your Life
“Most of us have two lives: the life we live and the un-lived life within us. Between the two stands resistance.” ~Steven Pressfield It’s time to upgrade your life. You know it, and I know it. But how? How do you upgrade your life when every past effort seems to have...
You Are Not Who You Think You Are
You are not who you think you are. In the immortal words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Tragically, for far too many, this human experience has...
Irrational Atheists
Atheism, both morally and logically, is riddled, in my opinion, with problems. But (other than the fact that God exists, of course) its fatal flaw is this: For atheists, there is nothing worth dying for. Or rather, the idea that there can be something worth dying for...
Misunderstanding Love
We misunderstand love at our own peril. Indeed, our misunderstanding of what it means to love wreaks havoc on individual lives as well as society at large. Intuitively, we recognize the supremacy of love over all other principles. This is why hearing, “You don’t love...
You are, at least in part, bad. And, no, it’s not okay.
We’re terrified to learn of our badness. That isn’t to say we aren’t also good. In most cases, we most certainly are. However, “bad” and “good” are relative terms. Bad according to whom? Good according to whom? Further complicating matters, we’re conditioned,...
For Relationships, Character Matters Absolutely
All of us intuitively understand that for relationships to survive and thrive character matters. What is less understood, however, is why character matters so absolutely. The short answer: because we love imperfectly. In other words, if being in love means that we are...