Talking to Strangers
What is the first lesson you remember learning as a child? What was the first thing your parents impressed upon you of utmost importance? For many, that first important lesson was "don't talk to strangers." While an important lesson to impart upon defenseless and naive kids, we tend to hold on too ...
>
How to Stop Suffering
Sometimes life can feel like ice skating uphill. You push, struggle, and scratch your way up only to be kicked back down by unforeseen events. These struggles can make you feel like you aren't good enough, like you deserve to suffer and that maybe you just belong at the bottom of the hill. I have found ...
>
All We Need is Love
Love is a force with such power it is hard to believe. What other emotion has the ability to so alter our perception of the world? What other feeling could drive humans to utterly enslave themselves for another? What other force for good will cause someone to give up their life, other than love? Love ...
>
Feed the Right Wolf
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. ”It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil–he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, ...
>
True Strength
There is a misconception out there that echoes through common perception, finding a home and resonating with great intensity in minds sick with hatred. This belief has reared its ugly head and caused humanity to enact tragic evil upon ourselves throughout history. Many of our worst attributes, from ...
>
The World of Truth – Part One: The Man
Sometimes, when I think about our world, it seems like it's the largest Play ever performed. We walk around dressed in costumes with painted faces and pretend. We do things we don't like so we can be accepted. We hide our weirdness to fit in with others who are hiding theirs, in order to feel a ...
>
Don’t be the Fly
Have you ever watched a fly trying to get out of a window? It repeatedly bashes itself into the same spot over and over again, never getting any closer to its goal, yet on it goes. Drawn by the light, it charges head first toward its goal without any idea why it is constantly failing to reach what it ...
>