Real Happiness empowers you to live the life of joy and purpose that you were meant to live.Many of our definitions of happiness are shaped by Madison Avenue. They define only the outer shell, or the mask that we show to the world. They describe how we look to others, not how we feel about ourselves. If we accept these definitions, we probably believe that a happy person is physically attractive, rich, influential, liked and respected by others, and powerful in the world. Those are the people we … [Read more...]
Dancing with the Beloved
We want life to be perfect, but it is not perfect. It is imperfect, ragged, unfinished. It never seems to be the way we want it to be.Life resists our expectations and our need for control. Sometimes it appears inscrutable, even disorderly. It isn't really, but its meaning and order are often subtle, hidden, slow to reveal themselves. Its order is not our order. What it seems to offer does not seem to match what we want. And we are impatient. We want to impose our order, our will. We want our … [Read more...]
The Call to Love
The challenges the human family faces in the 21st century - and in the next seven years, in particular - are awesome ones. It is easy to feel hopeless or overwhelmed by the number and the magnitude of the problems that must be solved. Many people understandably feel that “what I do will not matter; it won’t make a difference.”Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. We human beings created the challenges that we face and we have the capacity to meet them. To do so, … [Read more...]
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