The biggest problem the world has isn’t a lack of scholars, but a lack of people who are self-aware, possessing “emotional intelligence” (to borrow a term from Daniel Goleman). Peace is essential to prosperity, and the biggest threat to peace is misunderstandings — not understanding ourselves and not understanding others…

Following the path of least resistance and going with the flow are metaphors I use when it comes to writing (and in life). I don’t force it. I just let the words find their way onto the page. But I still need discipline to sit down and write. Most of…

The existence of suffering is what leads some people to become atheists. They can’t imagine how God could allow suffering to occur. This is a real dilemma, with no great answer. Other than to say that we need to look deeper into the meaning of suffering. I think there’s a…

It’s hard to find a real person. Most of us are not ourselves most of the time. We are very much the collective influence of those we associate with the most. We are even the characters we watch on T.V. It seems that few people take the time to get…

Wake up early. Enjoy the sunrise. Enjoy the quiet, slow pace of the early morning. Use this time to meditate, pray, reflect, write, exercise, etc. Prioritize. Remember to do the most important things to you and your family. Don’t get bogged down with all of the things that call for…

So much of what bothers us now, one day won’t matter. The ability to let things go now and live in the moment can save us years of stress. Our worries are mostly lies anyway. Holding onto them does not keep bad things from happening. …

Sleep is a big part of life. We spend about 1/3rd of our life sleeping. Forcing ourselves to stay awake and treating sleep like it’s a problem that must be overcome, is very unnatural. We’re meant to sleep, a lot. Some people say they’ll sleep when they’re dead. But if…

Everything is a belief. Even facts. Facts are representatives of reality, rather than reality itself. The universe itself may be an illusion and it’s laws only applicable to our experience of them. What exactly the universe is, and what exactly reality is, is not known. …

By confidence, I don’t mean the ability to project confidence. And I don’t mean trying to build confidence through positive thinking. I mean real confidence. A better term would be inner peace. Without inner peace, we don’t possess real confidence — we’re only acting confident, as a way of masking…