Happiness emerges when you stop creating your own unhappiness. Unhappiness is thinking. The mind is the most brilliant tool you have. When applied strategically, it can improve your life and lead to positive social change. But when you live in a World created by the mind - constantly comparing yourselves to others, thinking about the future, ruminating ...

Nobody can be completely honest. That you will try, and you'll have a great deal of success in exploring your motivations and your dark, unconscious depths, but there will be a certain point at which you will say, Well, I've had enough of that! You know? And, do you see how, in a strange way, there's a ...

We are all hungry for meaning, for purpose, for the feeling that our life is worth more than the sum of its parts. Humans are resourceful and have infinite ways of finding meaning, and infinite potential sources of meaning. You can find meaning in every scenario, every event, every occurrence, every context. You can find meaning in ...

Why would you carry around a pervasive feeling of being out-of-place. Of not fitting in. Of being on the outside, looking in. Especially when among people who love you. Yet, for you it is a difficult to identify, difficult to name feeling; yet it holds tremendous power over you. It makes it hard for you to ...

The conscious mind with its never ending stream of thoughts overrides your Consciousness. For the conscious mind, the outside World tends to occupy your attention and does not let you venture inward and experience your Consciousness. It is only when the mind becomes quiet and silent that you become aware of this Consciousness. You have to ...

The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80% of the wealth is owned by 20% of the people. Indeed, last year just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the World’s poorest 3.8 billion people. This seems to occur in all societies at all scales and at ...

Silence is not very highly valued in modern culture. In communication, it seems that we value quantity above all. And in the digital World it only gets easier to add your voice, whether e-mailing or snapchatting or podcasting or hash-tagging. We live in an age distinguished by noise. Not silence. As a believer, you are put in ...

Love someone with a deep soul, a person who has sympathy for others going through rough times in their lives. The kind of person who always asks if you are okay, if you need help with something, if you want someone to listen to you. Because someone with a deep soul understands your situation, whether it is ...

Luck is a term you use when you either do not know or do not want to acknowledge the reasons why something did or did not go your way. And if someone else defies the mathematical probability, it is because they have it and you do not. They are violating the universe’s probabilities. But the truth is, ...

Hope is one of the most important mental traits in life. Hope is incredibly important in life for health, happiness, and for success. Hope reduces your feelings of helplessness, boosts your happiness, reduces your stress, and improves your quality of life. Hope gives you motivation. It is that voice inside that says, 'Yes, you can'. And it ...

Supposing I say, everybody is playing the game 'Me first'. Now, I’m going to play the game 'You first'. To use the phrase of Bonhoeffer, who called Jesus the man for others. Now, let’s see if we can play that game. Instead of 'Me first' 'You first'. After you, please. Will you, please. You know, what ...

Your waking conscious state, the World that you see, is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total information available. Your picture of the World is a tiny dot in the totality of what actually exists. Think of it like looking at a single star in the immensity of the ...

In grief and pain and despair, you say things you otherwise would not say. You paint your reality darker than you will paint it tomorrow when the sun comes up. You sing in minor keys and talk as though that is the only music. You see only clouds and speak as if there were no sky. 'Where ...