Attention and Response

Thinking about what to do with your life can be a bit daunting at times. For starters, the average person lives to be 80 years old or so these days, which is really quite a long time. If you do the math, that's over 29,000 days! Even if you discount that total by a few …

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The Courage to Face Ingratitude I

"Ingratitude, the most popular sin of humanity, is forgetfulness of the heart. It is the revelation of the emptiness of pretended loyalty. The individual who posses it finds it the shortest cut to all other vices. Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil …

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Happiness and Righteousness Redefined

As a young man approaching middle age, I often ask myself what it is that human beings truly seek. Material wealth and comfort appear on the surface to shape the thoughts and dictate the actions of many, but scratch a little deeper and you will find that the common goal of man is happiness and …

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