Thich Nhat Hanh lists four primary characteristics of pure LOVE: Kindness, Compassion, Detachment & Joy … When LOVE is truly present, all four of these virtues are felt in abundance as well. Likewise, when any of these principles is fully actualized, LOVE blooms into being. And yet, for most westerners at least, these concepts do […]
Mike Dooley recently posted a list of “the top 10 things ‘dead people’ want you to know” … Seeing as how it’s making it’s rounds through the Internet, and seeing as how it seems to represent a few ideals that could very well lead you to suffer needlessly, I thought a brief commentary would be […]
It is impossible to be sad while helping others … Whenever my ego tempts me to be depressed or afraid, I simply go forth and find a way(s) to be Kind to someone else and my sadness immediately disappears … This reminds me that Life is not about “finding happiness” for myself, but rather is […]
Recently I read an email that promised me 7 ways I could please my ego; 7 practices I could adopt that would bring more happiness into my life; guaranteed. And upon reading them, I could see how they just might work. I had actually even practiced more than half of them already, and had indeed […]
To all those who believe that our society’s troubles can be solved via the political process, I offer the following: Remember the wisdom of Einstein: that there are no solutions to problems using the same thinking that created them in the first place. Investing in politics is exactly such a dead-end. There are those who […]
At first I tried to love others in order to attain “true happiness” for myself, and that never really worked … My euphoria always faded, and I always felt that something BIG was “missing”. Then, I tried to love others in order to “help them” or “fix them” … That never really worked either … […]
On the myth of “Giving Too Much” … Most of us have been taught from a very early age that it is important to first fill one’s own “tank” before giving to anyone else. Of course, this is the slightly nicer portion of the “broad path to destruction” that Jesus mentions in his teachings. For […]
I have found that personal growth comes fluidly only when we are not striving for an improvement of self, but are rather seeking simply to provide solace & joy for others.
We all “get lost” over the course of our lives — we slip from selfless caring to selfish desire; we wander from humble service to arrogant criticism; we drift away from courageous Love and fall deep into the darkness of fear. It’s not “bad” that we do so — it is simply the way our […]
I can’t compare my experiences with yours, of course, and yet I do know what it means to come face to face with debilitating pain, and so I can share how I dealt with that challenge in my past (several times, actually) … As far as dealing with the pain itself, I have found only […]
“Very few people know what Love is. Ninety-nine percent of people think that sexuality is Love … It is not. Sexuality is desirous and animalian. It has the potential of growing into Love, but it is not actual Love … If we choose to become conscious and caring during sexual union, then sex can be […]
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