by Jeremy Ostler | Jan 23, 2020 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Religion
Time is merciless. It passes regardless of what we want or need. And the fact that there are no pauses—not even to catch our breath when we are figuratively (sometimes literally) drowning—can make us feel like life is specifically designed to kill us. And it is. None...
by Jeremy Ostler | Nov 16, 2019 | Personal Development
When everything is going right, we think we see things as they are. It is only when things go wrong that we are awakened to just how complex the world really is. But it isn’t the complexity of life that unnerves us. It is our obliviousness of the fact. It is the fact...
by Jeremy Ostler | Aug 2, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
Thinking critically is necessary to prevent our individual and collective confidence from soaring unjustifiably to dangerous heights. Of course, to think critically, humility is required. Absent humility, we wouldn’t have the good sense to question the accuracy of our...
by Jeremy Ostler | Aug 1, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
“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...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jul 30, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships, Religion
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...
by Jeremy Ostler | Jul 6, 2019 | Culture, How To, Personal Development, Relationships
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...
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