People who are addicted have a void to fill. When they can not fill it with Love, community, and a sense of meaning, they fill it with whatever substitutes or substances are available. Substitutes activate parts of the brain that numb pain, produce pleasure and reward, and create a feeling of Human connectivity. For anyone suffering from ...

Spend your limited funds on what will make you happy. Do not spend your money on things. The trouble with things is that the happiness they provide fades quickly. The paradox of things is that you assume that the happiness you get will last as long as the thing itself. It seems intuitive that investing in something ...

Are you so busy trying to earn more money so you will be happier. If you are, you might need to rethink your priorities. Money leads to autonomy, it does not add to well-being or happiness. Once people reach the point of being able to meet your basic needs, more money leads to marginal gains at ...

As a child you are taught many belief systems from your parents, teachers, friends and Society as a whole. You are like a sponge absorbing everything that you are witnessing, hearing and experiencing. However when you get older and start to carve out your own identity, you often are held back from living the life of ...

With each death or near death experience you will be reminded. Do not take your family and friends for granted because they can disappear when you least expect it. Once they are gone, the pain of missed opportunity hits you in the face like a brick. Each death you endure is a reminder of how precious life ...

I never thought I would come to this moment of longing for someone I never ever want to miss again. I kept saying 'I don’t miss you anymore' then the next thing I know is I am already staring at nothing. I kept staring at nothing, I stared at walls, at ceilings and even just at a ...

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts ... so, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts I mean specifically chatter in the skull. perpetual and compulsive repetition of words, of reckoning and calculating. I am not saying that thinking is bad. Like everything ...

Billions of people fail to live the life they have always wished to live. They fail to realize their ambitions and give up on their big dreams. One of the strongest causes for this attitude is that they do not believe in themselves. To live a life of high achievement, you must fully believe in yourself ...

In 1965, Singapore, a small island at the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula, was granted independence, impoverished, uneducated, sparsely populated and with no natural resources. Singapore’s new leaders understood that in order to survive they would have to act fast and find a way to make the tiny island indispensable to the global community. From the start, ...

Love can, and will, hurt you like nothing else will. In a strict scientific sense, Love is nothing more than your brain releasing certain chemicals when it is triggered by something, be it a thought, a memory, or a visual stimula. This, however, seems to many people to be a far too clean cut, cold, and ...

You believe that there is only purpose of life: And that is to be happy. Why else go through all the pain and hardship. It is to achieve happiness in some way. Most people are pursuing happiness in their lives. That is why we collectively buy shit we do not need, go to bed with people we ...

You create a relationship to fulfil your needs and desires through the other. The very foundation being built on the feeling of 'I am incomplete'. This can at best be described as an arrangement of seeking yourself in the other. Through the ages, people have been unhappy in their relationships. Speak to any father, he complains about ...