Lesson 1: Keep an Open Mind - One area in which Tolstoy excelled was the ability and willingness to change his mind based on new experiences. It was a skill he began nurturing in the 1850's when he was an army officer. Tolstoy fought in the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War, a horrific experience ...

You want your life to matter. You want to live a satisfying, fulfilling, and purposeful life. This is not just a selfish desire. The feeling of a certain amount of significance in your life is healthy. It is good for your experience. There is a healthy satisfaction that comes from contributing to the World around you. ...

First, one understands that he causes much of his own suffering needlessly. -Second, one looks for the reasons for this in his own life. -To look is to have confidence in one’s own ability to end the suffering. -Finally, a wish arises to find a path to peace. For all beings desire happiness, all wish ...

Your existence comprises of choices that you make. Choices for your life are everywhere. Despite your parents making most of your decisions for your better and brighter future when you were very young, you start learning how to choose between the options placed strategically in front of you and make decisions. The choices you make and the decisions ...

You are way to serious, way too often, turning everyday situations into problems, constantly looking for shit to complain about and worrying about things that simply do not matter. It is good to handle your business and get serious about personal growth, love and being the best person you can be, being too serious will hinder ...

This is your life. No one is forcing you to do anything that you do not want to do. No one is forcing you to live a lie. No one is making you go and do a job that you do not want to do. You have the choice to live life on your own terms. You seem to ...

What if there is a subtle force that works like gravity - only it lifts you up towards ever greater heights of intelligence, beauty, power, grace and Love? What if this force is felt by everyone? - only most people never notice it. What if this mysterious force is what’s behind all of Human achievement? What if it’s ...

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real, deep ...

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent. Vocation does not mean a goal ...

You are responsible for your life, for your feelings, for you actions, and for every results you get. You are in control of your thoughts. You have the ability to stop thinking about something and to start thinking about something else. Once you take responsibility for your life and actions, you will begin to improve your ability ...

You have this fear you will find out near the end of your life that you have just had an ordinary life. What you would have thought was an exciting life, one that you would have never traded for anyone else's life. But it turned out, it has been just plain boring. While you're in it, life seems ...

Each year, as many as 1 out of 5 people whose hearts stop will be revived. The stories that some of them share are often called near-death experiences (NDE). These incidents often feature tunnels leading to a bright light, spiritual encounters, meetings with deceased loved ones, and other things that seem mystical. In some cases, people whose ...

Your life is what you make it. Your present life is the result of all the choices you have made up until this moment. You are the only one responsible for where you are right now. For how your life looks, for how you are being treated by those around you and for the level of happiness or unhappiness ...

Well, I'd like to be more consistently here, you know. I'd like to really get on ... I'd like to just ... and I know it's not probably maybe possible but because it's so improbable and so impossible, I'd just like to really see how long I can last as being really here, you know, really ...

You watch people on the street and in restaurants and think that their conversations and broad smiles are evidence that they live a life much better than yours. You assume that they are happier than you, smarter than you, and worth more than you. All around you is evidence that this is true: your meager bank ...